Home remedies · Stomach, gut & nausea
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Cook oat flakes long in water, eat lukewarm; grate an apple, let it brown, then eat.
Both contain soluble fibre that binds water and thickens the stool. The gruel also coats the irritated stomach lining.
It does not replace the fluid — that comes from the rehydration drink.
No restriction. Bloody diarrhoea, high fever or more than three days needs medical assessment.
Do not treat yourself: strong, increasing or suddenly starting abdominal pain, a hard belly, blood in the stool or black stool, vomiting blood. With diarrhoea it is fluid loss that counts — dry tongue, little urine, drowsiness. In children and older people this happens faster.