Q. I am experiencing diarrhea, weakness, and fever. Please help.
Hello doctor,
I am experiencing diarrhea, weakness, fever, and headaches. Whenever I drink or eat anything, I have loose motions. I feel this is a heat stroke. Can you please help?
Hi,
Welcome to icliniq.com.
- This looks like a case of acute gastroenteritis. A few other information will be helpful.
- Your age?
- How long have you been having these symptoms?
- Any vomiting?
- Any other pre-existing illness or medications?
- Did you eat anything from outside?
- Were you exposed to the sun for long?
- Are you passing adequate amounts of urine?
- Heat stroke is unlikely, as the patient feels extremely hot, dry, and disoriented. Heat exhaustion is a possibility. I suggest you try the following:
- Stay indoors.
- Take plenty of fluids by mouth like coconut water, salt and sweet lemon water, etc., approximately 2 liters a day or more if there is continuous watery diarrhea. You must make sure you are not dehydrated.
- Oral rehydrating solution sachets or electrolyte replacement solution. One sachet mixed with one liter of water to be had over 3 to 4 hours or as described on the sachet.
- Tablet Sporlac (Lactobacillus), three times a day for three days.
- Tablet Paracetamol 500 mg in case of fever. Maximum four times a day, six hours apart.
- Take yogurt or curd.
- If the symptoms do not resolve in two to three days, kindly contact a doctor to rule out other possibilities. Kindly contact a doctor immediately in case of worsening of symptoms, if urine output decreases or you feel faint or lose consciousness, or you pass blood in stools.
Thank you.
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