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How Should I Manage Symptoms Of Loose Motion, Exhaustion, Muscle Cramps And Nausea After Several Days Of Travel?
Question: My mother(62 years) is back from a continuous Bus travel of 22 days. During journey, they walked under sun with out proper diet and water. Now she is having loose motion and Nausea. She is also feeling very week and cramps in her muscle. How should I take care of her ?
Brief Answer:
Can be dehydration and electrolyte imbalance.
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Thanks for posting your query.
The symptoms that she is having is likely to be due to muscle cramps related to dehydration and electrolyte imbalance and a poor nutrition. She needs a healthy diet full of fresh fruits and vegetables and a protein rich diet with plenty of fluids. She also needs a B complex supplement and proper electrolyte supplements after getting her electrolyte levels evaluated.
For loose motions and nausea give her a bland diet, with no milk, black tea with lemon, and curd rice/khichdi with curd, and ripe bananas for a couple of days. Give plenty of fluids to avoid dehydration.
Get her stool examined and if it indicates infection or she is not better in two days, see her doctor for a course of antibiotics. She can meanwhile take Lomotil twice a day along with the diet I have suggested.
I hope this answers your query.
In case you have additional questions or doubts, you can forward them to me, and I shall be glad to help you out.
For future query, you can directly approach me through my profile URL http://bit.ly/Dr-Praveen-Tayal
Wishing you good health.
Regards.
Dr. Praveen Tayal.
Can be dehydration and electrolyte imbalance.
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Thanks for posting your query.
The symptoms that she is having is likely to be due to muscle cramps related to dehydration and electrolyte imbalance and a poor nutrition. She needs a healthy diet full of fresh fruits and vegetables and a protein rich diet with plenty of fluids. She also needs a B complex supplement and proper electrolyte supplements after getting her electrolyte levels evaluated.
For loose motions and nausea give her a bland diet, with no milk, black tea with lemon, and curd rice/khichdi with curd, and ripe bananas for a couple of days. Give plenty of fluids to avoid dehydration.
Get her stool examined and if it indicates infection or she is not better in two days, see her doctor for a course of antibiotics. She can meanwhile take Lomotil twice a day along with the diet I have suggested.
I hope this answers your query.
In case you have additional questions or doubts, you can forward them to me, and I shall be glad to help you out.
For future query, you can directly approach me through my profile URL http://bit.ly/Dr-Praveen-Tayal
Wishing you good health.
Regards.
Dr. Praveen Tayal.
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