Explain the difference between constipation and diarrhea?
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It's like the difference between a monk with a vow of silence and an auctioneer.
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Changing what you eat and drink and how much you exercise will help relieve and prevent constipation. Here are some steps you can take.\ntry eating more fiber
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Is it chronic?  Just a passing bout?\n\nDo the BRAT method... Bananas Rice Apples and Toast.  Eat only things of those types to help firm up your stools for the next 24-48 hours.  Take immodium or pepto or another diarrhea formula medicine.\n\nLong term, drink lots of water and add more fiber to your diet.\n\nGood luck
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I don't think so. While eating fruit and veggies is good for you, too much can cause diarrhea. Definately include more fruits and vegetables in your daily diet. Also, make sure you are drinking at LEAST two eight ounce glasses of water (not juice, soda, hi-c) a day. It will help keep you hydrated and flush out impurities. Add walking every day for a half hour to get your blood pumping helps too!
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Watch the consumption of various foods eaten. Sometimes processed foods, spicy foods, or spoiled food can create a reaction and our system responds by throwing it off via diarrhea.  There could also be an infection in your body needing to come out. As everyone has already mentioned...GO SEE A DOCTOR.  My suggestion is: Don't self medicate and don't use those OTC drugs that may constipate you, thus creating a continuous circle, going nowhere except back and forth to the bathroom. Go see your doctor if this extends past 3 weeks.  You may need to produce a stool sample for testing.
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Go to the pharmacy and ask a Pharmacist.. Or you could wander up and down the medicine aisle until you find a product that says LAXATIVE or STOOL SOFTENER.. \n\n--dietary habits like a low intake of dietary fiber or inadequate amounts of fluids also could be your problem..\n\n--intervention is the increase of fluids (preferably water) and dietary fiber. The latter may be achieved by consuming more vegetables and fruit, whole meal bread and by adding linseeds to one's diet\n\n--Laxatives may be necessary in people in whom dietary intervention is not effective or inappropriate. Stimulant laxatives (e.g. senna) are generally avoided, as they may worsen crampy sensations commonly experienced in constipation
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Pedialyte is to make sure the child is staying hydrated and that their electrolytes stay balanced.  It doesn't contain any medication that would help with the diarrhea.\n\nYou need to give the child something for the diarrhea in addition to the Pedialyte.  Keep in mind though, that sometimes it just has to run it's course and shoud let up in a day or so.  See your peditrician if it doesn't.\n\nCarrots, rice cereal, bananas, potatoes, and applesauce can help slow down the stools.  Don't give them alot of fruit juices, peas, pears, or apricots (which can all increase stool output.)
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Extreme constipation as a result of not having a bowel movement for several days or a week or more.  The feeling that you have to evacuate, but can't pass anything.  Could lead to possible intestinal blockage which could lead to death as happened with Morris Gibb of the BG's. \n\nNote: If someone has constipation that has lasted a week or more they should seek medical treatment before trying laxatives.  They could have a serious underlying medical problem such as a colon or other intestinal tumor (benign or cancerous).\n\nCheers!
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Don't try lomotil or imodium in bacterial cases of diarrhea they will worsen the prognosis.  If it is bacterial, antibiotics should be taken.  It could be due to Salmonella, E coli or shigella.  You better do a stool test and care about others with conducting good hygiene.
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As you know, some pain meds can cause constipation.  A Fleet enema is usually sufficient to deal with the problem, but sometimes a large volume enema (or series of enemas) is necessary.  \n\nMost people find Fleet enemas to be quite tolerable.  They generally cause little or no discomfort.
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Fast digestion ! What do  you mean actualy.  If it is fast there will be no time for absorbtion.  If the movements are faster you will be getting diarrhoea.
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Your bowels can only feel pain from two sources, either a puncture or tear or hole in the intestinal tissue, or distension, which is the pain you feel from gas, or over eating where your intestines are distended, or stretched to the max. The stomach itself is the same. Ulcerated stomachs feel pain from the hole in them, and distended stomachs feel pain from being stretched to the max.
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The main symptoms of IBS are crampy pain in the stomach area (abdomen), painful diarrhea or constipation. Most people have either diarrhea or constipation, but some people have both. Other symptoms are mucus in the stool,swollen or bloated abdomen and the feeling that you have not finished a bowel movement.  \nIBS has no cure, but you can do things to relieve symptoms. Treatment may involve diet changes, medicine, and stress relief. You may have to try a combination of things to see which works best for you.
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IBS is an intestine problem\nand you might feel change in bowels or diarrhea or constipation
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Whitish mucus in the stools often indicates there is inflammation of the intestines. Mucus in the stools can occur with either constipation or diarrhea.\n\nThe more common causes of mucus in the stools are bacterial overgrowth and food allergies and sensitivities. They are often easily corrected with dietary changes and supplements. With bacterial overgrowth, bloating and gas usually worsen after eating any sugar, whether it's white sugar, bread, pasta, rye, rice, or milk (which contains the sugar lactose). In contrast, people with food allergies and sensitivities react to specific foods.\n\nOther causes of mucus in the stools are:\n\n    * Ulcerative colitis\n    * Crohn's disease\n    * Celiac disease\n    * Diverticulitis
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Constipation is yet to be figured out. I go everyday so I think that is just really weird when people can hold it in for that long! Bowel movements happen because all that nasty stuff we just ate, the leftovers, needs to be removed from our body. You are not removing it normally so I am sure you are in the high percentage rate of getting irrital bowel syndrome or even colon cancer. You should seek the doctors advice about this. Try eating more vegetables and fruit. Drinking water as soon as you get up in the morning, and drinking throughout the day will definitely help you out. Your diet needs to change.
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No, it's not normal.  Go to a doctor immediately.  Diarrhea causes dehydration and may lead to loss of nutrients.  You might have a stomach infection, an irritation, or something even more serious.  Even if it costs a lot, your life is worth it.