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Suggest Treatment For Digestive Issues For Over Two Months Starting Out As Diarrhea Followed By Floating Stool And Foul Odor
Question: I have been having digestive isdues for two months, started out as diarehha and now i have floating stool with a bad smell i have lost weight and really cant eat alot.
Brief Answer:
please go through answer.
Detailed Answer:
Hello Dear patient,
Have gone through your details and i appreciate your concerns.
Malabsorption is also a common cause of foul-smelling stool. Malabsorption occurs when your body is unable to absorb the proper amount of nutrients from the food you eat. This generally occurs when there's an infection or disease that prevents your intestines from absorbing nutrients from your food smelling stools can also be caused by a change in your regular diet.
Its better to take 5 days antibiotic and anti protozoal course.
Tab Ofloxacin 200 mg twice a day(9a.m-9 p.m)
Tab Metronidazole 400 mg twice daily(9a.m-9p.m)
These are prescription medicines. I am not allowed to send you prescription or call for prescription due to legal issues. Please contact your primary healthcare provider for a prescription.
Suggestions-
Ensure that raw foods are cooked properly before you eat them. This includes beef, pork and eggs. Also, a good practice would be to steam meat before actually cooking it.
Stay hydrated by drinking up to eight glasses of water a day, as it will help the absorption process and prevent constipation
Consume probiotic foods. This may include specific types of yogurt or supplements that help combat invasive bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract.
Eat fruits and vegetables. The added fiber will help cleanse the colon.
If your diarrhea dont show any improvement within a couple of days, then, shlould go for some more investigations to identify the real culprit. I'd suggest, then, to do an abdominal ultrasound, fecal examination for ova/parasites, feces occult blood, leucocytes in feces, and complete blood profile.
Hope it answered to your question!
please go through answer.
Detailed Answer:
Hello Dear patient,
Have gone through your details and i appreciate your concerns.
Malabsorption is also a common cause of foul-smelling stool. Malabsorption occurs when your body is unable to absorb the proper amount of nutrients from the food you eat. This generally occurs when there's an infection or disease that prevents your intestines from absorbing nutrients from your food smelling stools can also be caused by a change in your regular diet.
Its better to take 5 days antibiotic and anti protozoal course.
Tab Ofloxacin 200 mg twice a day(9a.m-9 p.m)
Tab Metronidazole 400 mg twice daily(9a.m-9p.m)
These are prescription medicines. I am not allowed to send you prescription or call for prescription due to legal issues. Please contact your primary healthcare provider for a prescription.
Suggestions-
Ensure that raw foods are cooked properly before you eat them. This includes beef, pork and eggs. Also, a good practice would be to steam meat before actually cooking it.
Stay hydrated by drinking up to eight glasses of water a day, as it will help the absorption process and prevent constipation
Consume probiotic foods. This may include specific types of yogurt or supplements that help combat invasive bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract.
Eat fruits and vegetables. The added fiber will help cleanse the colon.
If your diarrhea dont show any improvement within a couple of days, then, shlould go for some more investigations to identify the real culprit. I'd suggest, then, to do an abdominal ultrasound, fecal examination for ova/parasites, feces occult blood, leucocytes in feces, and complete blood profile.
Hope it answered to your question!
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Prasad
I will try to contact my doctor in the meantime i guess i will suffer
Brief Answer:
follow up.
Detailed Answer:
Hello again my dear patient,
Please start taking over the counter probiotic like VSL#3 twice daily woth 40 mg omeprazole till you get a prescription of antibiotics this would help to replete the disturbed good bacterial flora in your intestines.Add over the counter imodium 4mg twice daily in case stools ate loose.
This will help you a lot.
Hope you would be fine soon.
I wish you good luck.
Thank you.
follow up.
Detailed Answer:
Hello again my dear patient,
Please start taking over the counter probiotic like VSL#3 twice daily woth 40 mg omeprazole till you get a prescription of antibiotics this would help to replete the disturbed good bacterial flora in your intestines.Add over the counter imodium 4mg twice daily in case stools ate loose.
This will help you a lot.
Hope you would be fine soon.
I wish you good luck.
Thank you.
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Kampana
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