Both my mother and father have suffered severe bouts of diarrhea quite often. I am really tired of dealing with it, what do they need to change to stop this? I think it is dairy intolerance or something else food related, but they won't stop eating things with dairy. Please help!!
Diet is huge in control of the diarrhea so adding Metamucil helps bulk up. Small, more frequent meals, is a must.
Just read about Senacot helping also. Going to read more on that.
And yes, if placed on an antibiotic, probiotics should be taken.
Some times as we age we can no longer tolerate certain foods. Dairy and gluten seem to be the most popular. My Dad use to get the "trots" as he would call it. I decided to stop Dad from using regular milk and change the milk over to Lactaid Milk which taste just the same. Same with ice cream. Dad loved the Lactaid chocolate ice cream. At one time I could get lactose free yogurt but I can't find that any more :(
Did the same with gluten [wheat, barley and rye]. I tried gluten free cereal and Dad liked eating that. Then tried gluten free bread, thumbs down.
Anyway, Dad's problem slowly went away and it was lactose that was the issue. Usually such food would churn his stomach within an hour or so.