Suggestions to get my gut back to normal, please? (TMI)

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Hi,
Had horrendous diarrhoea since friday morning (cheers DS2 and nursery). Very gassy, tummy churning, and pure liquid releases every time I visit the loo, which are very pale and smelly.
I've been eating (on my own with 2 little peeps), but mainly white carbs, as thats what I fancy most. I'm sure its not the best, and keeping things down. Drinking a quite a bit of water, squash and diluted fruit juice.

Without eating probiotic yoghurt (yoghurt and mushrooms are about the only things in normal life which I can't stomach), what would be best to get my guts back to normal again?

Cheers

You can get probiootic capsules from the healthfood shop, these should help.

Start by cutting out ALL fat. You're not digesting it. No oil, no butter, no marg, no milk.
White carbs and filtered water are the way to go - stop with the fruit juice as well as it could be continuing to irritate your gut - you need to go as bland as possible to allow the inflammation or whatever to calm down.

Probiotics, as LadySybil said, are available in capsule form but I'd try to stop the diarrhoea first (and not by taking meds for it if you can avoid it, best to let it all out if it's a bug)

Right, so bananas and dry pasta it is. Been on toast, but with butter. I'm feeling fine til the churning starts, and then its a dash!

If I ditch the juice, do I need any electrolytes from anywhere? Not taken anything to bung things up (I work on the principle if your body wants out, it probably best to get it out!), but equally not taken any rehydration anything.

And then to the shops on Monday - or rather send DH.

Fingers crossed DS1 stays clear.

Thank-you

I'd use some diarylite (oral rehydration stuff, don't know how to spell this). Send DH, it's always useful to have some in the house.

nope, no bananas. No fruit. Just dry white carbs, sorry!
Flat lucozade if you don't want dioralyte.

I should say that I had terrible but brief (~8h) food poisoning from probably a rotovirus once - it was dire! I drank only water and flat ginger ale (no lucozade in the house and no one to get it for me), in fact at one point I just had my tongue in the liquid because anything I drank came back up in the next spasm :(
Anyway - the following day, stayed on just water and flat ginger ale and dry white carbs and the diarrhoea was over in a day - I was careful the following day but was back to normal the day after that.
My friend who caught the same bug at the same time, kept trying to eat and was sick for 4 days.

I was so miserable I rang the OOH doctor re. dehydration but he said not to worry until I hadn't been able to keep any fluids down for 24h. :) (different for infants)

Hmm, DH is about 400 miles away til very late tonight.
No fruit
Ok, dry pasta, and toast with no butter. I need this shifted.

Everything is staying down, just not in for long!

Thanks again

No worries - honestly, the drier the better - and it will hopefully clear up very quickly. :)

A really good quality brand of probiotic tablets from health food store. Great for tummy problems and for boosting your immune system the rest of HHS time