Traveler’s diarrhea is an intestinal infection that travelers often get (especially by land or sea) if they eat water or food contaminated with fecal matter containing bacteria, parasites or viruses, if you have the slightest doubt about the safety of food or drink in the place you are visiting Or you traveled there, so follow the necessary precautions.

If the diarrhea is fluid and profuse, it can lead to dehydration, and children and the elderly are particularly vulnerable to this condition, but dehydration is dangerous at all ages. If one of your travel companions has severe diarrhea, seek medical help for him, and the doctor may prefer to give the patient fluids intravenously if the specter of dehydration hangs over him.

It is a good idea to take some commercially produced rehydration solution with you to sip on as soon as you get diarrhea while on vacation. Sugar + 1 teaspoon baking soda (sodium bicarbonate). Allow the mixture to cool completely, then add a glass of orange juice to it and sip about 1.5 liters of it daily until the diarrhea stops.

The antibiotic ciprofloxacin can be used to prevent or before diarrhea occurs in travelers, and taking certain antibiotics every day (especially the combination trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole with one of the fluoroquinolone compounds) can also reduce the chances of infection.

Since the use of antibiotics increases the susceptibility to the emergence of bacterial strains that are resistant to antibiotics, so please be careful before taking antibiotics and consult a specialist doctor, wishing travelers safety.