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My apologies if you are having your lunch...
For the last 2 days, I have pretty much been chained to the loo passing what can only bedescribed as "rusty water". I assume I have some kind of tummy bug.
My wife suggests using Imodium which should calm it down but my way of thinking is that my body is trying to expel something and so I should try to stop it from doing that.
Who is right?
For the last 2 days, I have pretty much been chained to the loo passing what can only bedescribed as "rusty water". I assume I have some kind of tummy bug.
My wife suggests using Imodium which should calm it down but my way of thinking is that my body is trying to expel something and so I should try to stop it from doing that.
Who is right?
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lol sorry mccfluff
I bought myself a bottle of Lucozade and was surprised to read on the label that it should only be drunk if you are healthy. That has changed since my youth when it was treated almost like medicine. Now it seems to have been rebranded as one of those energy drinks like Red Bull.
I must be getting old.
I bought myself a bottle of Lucozade and was surprised to read on the label that it should only be drunk if you are healthy. That has changed since my youth when it was treated almost like medicine. Now it seems to have been rebranded as one of those energy drinks like Red Bull.
I must be getting old.
I`d just use Dioralyte for now. That has been shown to actually help stop the diahrroea as well as rehydrating. Imodium (loperamide) works by effectively paralising the bowel but if you`re only passing water, I`m not sure there is a lot of point. Just my opinion. I`d probably resort to the Imodium if it goes on for several days though.
squarebear....do you really think that all that diarhoea is draing all the bugs?
The diarhoea is the body response to the presence of the bugs which will continue until the body kills the bugs or antibiotics do the trick.
You can.t just keep losing fluid.
In answer to your question...just think......would I give advice which was harmful.
The diarhoea is the body response to the presence of the bugs which will continue until the body kills the bugs or antibiotics do the trick.
You can.t just keep losing fluid.
In answer to your question...just think......would I give advice which was harmful.
I think you're crazy
You're body is not some sort of all knowing natural physician it often screws up and can kill you when it does so - People die of bird flu when their bodies over react to the infection, Cancer obviously and I'm sure there are many others.
I had such a bad bout of what you've got once in Cuba - anything I drank was right out in less than 2 minutes and I was dehydrating rapidly. I was out 2 hour drive from any major town and without the immodium instants my wife had I'd have been in hospital if I was lucky.
If you're anywhere near as bad you'll want to get some immodium into yourself so you can get rehydrated properly
BTW - people make very poor decisions when they're dehydrated
You're body is not some sort of all knowing natural physician it often screws up and can kill you when it does so - People die of bird flu when their bodies over react to the infection, Cancer obviously and I'm sure there are many others.
I had such a bad bout of what you've got once in Cuba - anything I drank was right out in less than 2 minutes and I was dehydrating rapidly. I was out 2 hour drive from any major town and without the immodium instants my wife had I'd have been in hospital if I was lucky.
If you're anywhere near as bad you'll want to get some immodium into yourself so you can get rehydrated properly
BTW - people make very poor decisions when they're dehydrated
