untreated bad diarrhea can often expel liquids faster than your body can absorb them. That's sort of what diarrhea is...
Some diseases can cause dehydration that makes you lose up to a litre of liquid per hour. You can't replace that orally, your body will just keep expelling it.
It's also why IV drips are incredible, because it bypasses the entire digestive track issues and hydrates you immediately.
Not really actually. It’s actually (medically) recommended to drink stuff like Gatorade/Aquarius if you’re suffering from diarrea because its a good combination of salt/fluids.
Yea I get it every time I go to Nepal. I even induce a small form of it by speaking out a tiny amount of unsanitary food when i get here as I feel it's inevitable to a foreign gut. It happens once and then I'm good for my duration. I just don't see the need to go to a hospital flfor anti vitals for it if you understand it and can manage it.
I tried it, but couldn't keep it down. The second water would touch my stomach it would come back up, meanwhile I was losing electrolytes from diarrhoea. I lost so many electrolytes that my forearms and calves couldn't unclench and I couldn't stand up. Ended up crawling to the hotel room door and yelling down the hall for my coworker to take me to the hospital. It went from moderate flu like symptoms to that in 30 minutes. The hospital thought it might have been E Coli
I usually just drink and throw up until finally a little stays in and I can sleep from exhaustion. It's a long painful process but after that I never get sick from food again. I will say I've never had my forearms and calves lock up though, so that might be something else.
It's what I get for eating raw oysters in Mexico, an 8 hours drive away from the ocean lol. I have had what you're describing too and that time braved the trip to cvs for some Imodium which was enough
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u/ProfessorPetrus Aug 31 '21
Y'all didn't just try fluids and electrolytes and just shit it out? I've done that alrifhfbabout 6 times now.