• Stomach vs. Intestinal Distress
• Colera, Dengue Fever, Malaria
• Natural Remedies
• Pepto Bismol, Kaopectate, and similar remedies
• Enemas
• Immodium (loperamide HCl)
• Stomach distress causes and remedies
• Intestinal distress causes and remedies

Pepto Bismol, and Kaopectate are Natural Remedies. Read the label. Kaopetate with a little "neomicina" or neomycin can be found in some countries. Itīs a mild antibiotic dose and helps provide quick relief and works to eliminate the cause the of problem in some cases.

These drugs and antacids should be used just once or at most once a day because they interfer with the absorption of antibiotics and can mask the problem while it grows worse.
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In the case of bacterial infection, an enema with  a little hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) added (50 ml. to 1 ltr.) kills and removes bacteria, infected mucus, and infected fecal matter.
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Immodium paralyses your intestinal tract. Unless you have been diagnosed in the hospital with colera, you do NOT want to paralyze your intestinal tract. You want to keep things moving. For the better.

You must take water, Gatorade, Powerade, or water with "suero" or body salts (bought in the pharmacy for US$ 0.20) to make up for the fluid you loose by diarreah. A big gulp of Pepto Bismol or Kaopectate will help to normalize the chemistry within your intestines and greatly diminish diarreah while allowing the normal amount to diarreah to continue that lets out the toxins and infection. You donīt want to keep the infection inside!
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Stomach distress is usually food poisoning. The usual causes are soap or other chemical from an improperly washed plate or utensil contaminating the food, rancid/spoiled meat, rancid oil, spoiled milk, anything introduced in the food that you are not accostomed to or are allergic to.

I have rarely been food poisoned, or met someone else who was, who did not know intuitively what is was that caused the problem. The onset of the vomiting from food poisoning takes from 5 minutes to 4 hours. Inevitably, the victim will be heard to say, "it was that greasy rice", or "I thought that meat tasted funny".

Diarreah does not always accompany food poisoning, although it usually does.

REMEDIES

• Milk of Magnesia (Magnesium Oxide) or some equivalent purgative antacid. This will cause the pushing out of all the contents of your intestines and coat the walls of your stomach and intestines against further absorption of the contaminated food.
• Once the vomiting has stopped, take Pepto Bismol or similar product to begin restoring the normal balance in your intestinal tract. In case you had a bacterial invasion, the Kaopectate with neomycin would be an extra cover.
• At the next meal you might want to take a dose of acidophilis.

Now is where things get a little complicated. Normally, intestinal distress means intestinal infection and is accompanied by diarreah, feelings of nausea, loss of apetite, and intestinal pain, especially in the lower left side of the abdomen.

An intestinal infection means that you have had from 3 days to 1 week to develop this problem and the SOONER you recognize and treat the problem - even 10:00 at night - the sooner it will go away. If it gets worse, it could rob you of many days of fun for just putting off  treatment for 12 hours.

If you are in Guatemala, there are so many cases of parasitic infections that you can easily find a doctor for US$ 10 to do a poop test US$ 10 and in 3 hours you have three prescriptions in your hands. Find out the results of the test. It is usually parasites and the doctor knows just what kills the parasites and which antbiotic works the best to get back on your feet in a day.

A lab test is the surest way to treat if itīs correct and fast. Otherwise, you are loosing valuable time GUESSING. Not scientific and not intelligent.

If you are taking cloroquine (400 mg.) 4 times per month, you have protection against malaria and parasites.

REMEDIES

• Step One - No matter what you have or suspect, an enema can only help and may reveal the real cause by examining the discharged water.
• Step Two - No matter what you have or suspect, Pepto Bismol or Kaopectate (especially with neomycin) will begin restoring normality to your intestinal chemistry.
• Step Three - No matter what you have or suspect, beginning Doxciclina (two times per day, for at least 3 days) will begin healing the infection and automatically works as an anti-parasite. Penicillin and penicillin based antibiotics are NOT the antibiotic of choice, they are very hard on the intestines and can aggravate the problem if it turns out there is a yeast or fungal infection present. Also take antibiotics at least 4 hours after antacids or Pepto Bismol.

• If you find or suspect you have a parasitic infection Doxycycline (100 mg. - 2 times per day), you would have the antibiotic treatment and anti-parasite treatment at the same time and wouldnīt have to take two drugs.
• A specific anti-parasitic drug is Flagyl (metronidazole) 500 mg - three pills in total - one every 12 hours.
• If you find or suspect you have a bacterial infection only, take tetracycline 250 mg 3 x`s per day for min 5 days or Doxiclina. (and keep out of direct sunlight).

• In the event you have worms, you can buy a powder at any supermarket or pharmacy for US$ 0.50 that takes care of that in 12 hours, tetracycline would be a good idea for some days is there has been much pain and infection. You must examine your poop to find out or a lab test.

• Unless you have at least 2 weeks in Central America, in the rainy season, there is little chance of having an intestinal fungal infection. A lab test would take at least 3 days. An enema with H2O2 and salt would do more than anti-fungal drugs. Tetracycline or Doxycyline would help. Penicillin would feed the fungus NO PENICILLIN BASED ANTIBIOTICS.

• Drink water, gatorade, powerade, or water with suero
• Take acidophilis during or after antibiotic treatment