What Causes Weakness, Vomiting And Diarrhea After Eating Seafood?

Posted on Fri, 10 Mar 2017

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Question : I ate shrimp at a carry out place near my house on tuesday. Experienced weakness ,vomiting and diarrhea within a couple of hours. Weakness and vomiting are gone but diarrhea is persisting. Took an anti-diarrheal. Some improvement but still have it. What should I do.

Answered by Dr. Rudina Balliu (2 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Possible food poisoning

Detailed Answer:
Hello ! Thank you for using Health Care Magic .
I have gone through your question and I understand your concern.
According to the symptoms could be food poisoning.If you don't have any fever ,blood in your stools ,abdominal pain or any other symptoms besides diarrhea :
I would recommend to take loperamide(2mg after each loose stools ,maximum 16mg /in 24 hours) to drink planty of water ( stay hydrated ,it's very important) use ORS (oral rehydration , to take the salt and electrolytes you lost) .
If you have fever , blood in stools , any other symptoms or if the diarrhea get worse ,i would recommend to go to a local doctor to do some test for bacterial infection.

Hope i have answered your question!
Let me know if you have any further clarifications, I will be happy to help.
Take Care!
Dr Balliu .

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