Diarrhea, constipation and other disorders of the intestine - is a serious problem, especially for people who suffer from them regularly. The reasons for these problems may be present in food bacteria, infections, stress, certain medications, and diseases such as ulcerative colitis Colitis - the danger of colon   or Crohn's disease. How to normalize the bowel?

General recommendations to improve the functioning of the intestines

• Identify the causes of their problems

The same violations of bowel function, and different people can have different causes. For example, one person has constipation cause certain foods, and the other - a lot of stress. Try to identify your triggers, answering the following questions:

After eating any food or drink you appear diarrhea, constipation, bloating, flatulence or other problems associated with the work of the intestine? (for example, a very common cause of diarrhea and flatulence are carbonated beverages, dairy products and coffee)?

What medications cause problems with digestion, and which do not influence him?

Do the specific events and the situation in the bowels? Perhaps you are suffering from diarrhea or bloating during travel, before menses, or when you have an important business meetings?

To make it easier to identify the relationship of various factors with the work of the intestine, try for a few weeks to write in detail when and what you eat, what medicines are taking what is happening in your life, and how it behaves when your intestines. After a while, you will see the relationship between one or more factors, and the appearance of digestive problems.

• Eat a balanced

Avoid foods that cause these problems and make sure that your diet has been a sufficient amount of fat, protein and carbohydrates. In addition, pay attention to portion sizes and how to quickly eat. Four or five small servings per day is preferable to three large. Eat slowly and thoughtfully, chew each piece for at least twenty times.

Gradually turn in your diet more foods rich in dietary fiber - they help to normalize bowel function. It is important to introduce them to the diet slowly, because if you immediately start to consume a lot of dietary fiber, it will lead to bloating Bloating - if you are bursting inside , Excessive gas formation and diarrhea.

• Consult your doctor

Sometimes bowel problems are temporary and rather quickly pass without specific treatment. However, if they persist for several weeks in a row and / or their symptoms quickly compounded without professional medical assistance is necessary. The doctor will do an exam to determine the cause of disruption of the intestine and make a treatment plan. It may include several items, such as medications, specific diet, and so on. Carefully adhere to the treatment plan, observe, how to change your state of health, and then contact a doctor if in two or three weeks will not notice any improvement.

• Be careful with liquids

The standard recommendation - to drink 1.5 liters of water daily, but those who are engaged in many activities, engaged in manual work or live in a hot climate, you can drink more. It is important to drink plenty of water during episodes of diarrhea - it helps to avoid dehydration. In addition, such cases are very useful sports drinks - they help to restore electrolyte balance, which can be disrupted due to diarrhea. Coffee and alcohol, conversely, can exacerbate dehydration.

Do not drink water and other beverages in the security that you are not sure. This applies, for example, water from open water, tap water in some regions, as well as fresh juices that are sold in third world countries. For the sake of their own safety drink only bottled or boiled water. This rule is especially important to respect those who often suffer from problems with the bowels. Even if your companions bought from a street vendor did not cause adverse effects, this does not mean that your body will respond well.

• Observe the rules of hygiene

After using the toilet, before preparing or eating food, wash your hands thoroughly with warm water and soap. In many cases, to certain violations of the intestine results in neglect of this simple rule.

• Control your stress

Stressful situations are fairly common trigger a variety of disorders of the intestine. Also, do these violations can be a source of stress, and a vicious circle from which escape is difficult. There are many ways to relieve stress: some people are more suitable for meditation Meditation - treats the body and the spirit   and yoga, other - active sports, hiking or cycling. Whatever you choose, it is important to regularly find time for such training - knowing that soon you will have the opportunity to relax, you will be easier to tolerate stressful situations. If you feel you can not cope with stress How to beat stress? Create an oasis   yourself, consult a psychologist.

• Be careful with the "wonder drug"

On the Internet you can find a lot of information about medicines and diets (often involving very tight restrictions on food), which ostensibly can normalize bowel function in a few days or weeks. Such means may be effective to some extent, useless, and can be dangerous. Therefore, before you try to go hungry for a few days to clear the gut or to take the drug, which is offering to buy in a specialty store, and about which nothing is heard in pharmacies, consult a doctor.

Creon - dosage of this enzyme preparation depends on the degree of digestion. Enzyme preparations help to improve the digestive process. Disorders of the digestive system of varying severity are found in almost all diseases of the digestive system.

How does Creon

The composition includes Creon porcine pancreatic enzymes - lipase, amylase and protease. Lipase promotes cleavage of neutral fat in the intestine. It is particularly important in the human liver and pancreas. Amylase breaks down starch and pectin to simple sugars - sucrose and maltose, she cleaves extracellular mainly complex carbohydrates (starch, glycogen) and almost not involved in the splitting of fiber. Proteases - are enzymes which cleave proteins. In Creon Creon - medicine to help digestion   they are represented by chymotrypsin and trypsin. Trypsin also regulates motor activity of the intestine.

Creon is used to correct digestive disorders, as well as for the regulation of the pancreas Diabetes and pancreas - the things you need to know . The walk in the structure of this enzyme preparation provides digestion and contribute to relief of symptoms of exocrine pancreatic insufficiency - decreased appetite, nausea, Nausea - there may be problems with the nervous system , Rumbling in the abdomen, bloating, and so on.

After numerous studies it was found that from the stomach simultaneously with the food can pass into the duodenum solid particles whose diameter is not more than 2 mm. Larger particles, including enzyme preparations are tablets or dragees are evacuated when the food weight is absent. The resulting formulations are not miscible with food and are not actively involved in digestion.

Creon does not have these drawbacks, it can quickly and evenly mixed with food due to the nature of its formulation. It comes in the form of gelatin capsules, 150, 300 and 400 mg of pancreatin, a prisoner in a variety of special beads coated with an enteric coating. The diameter of the microspheres does not exceed 2 mm.

If swallowed gelatin capsules dissolve rapidly, the microspheres are mixed with food and gradually enter the duodenum. In the alkaline environment of the duodenum enzymes they start acting on a large surface, virtually repeating the physiological processes of digestion, when pancreatic juice is released portions in response to the periodic supply of food from the stomach. This allows as close to a natural process of digestion and reduce the dosage of pancreatin.

Dosage in the human digestive organs

Creon is used as replacement therapy in deficiency of exocrine pancreatic function, as well as digestive problems associated with other disorders of the gastrointestinal tract, liver and biliary tract.

Creon dose depends on the degree of digestive disorders and the content in the lipase preparation, as for admission of enzymes in the small intestine of their activity falls sharply.

As a result, the dose of Creon set taking into account the degree of deficiency of digestion, fat content in the diet, symptoms of the disease, control of steatorrhea results (number of undigested fat in the stool) and maintain a normal nutritional status. The dose of lipase, which requires the patient along with the main meal (breakfast, lunch or dinner) can be from 20 000 to 75 000 lipase units (IU Ph. Eur.), While taking a light meal - about 5 000 to 25 000 lipase units.

When receiving Creon average initial dose of lipase is 10 000-25 000 lipase units during the main meal. However, may require higher doses in order to achieve a more complete digestion of fats and support good nutritional status. Creon usually prescribed so that the patient gets along with food at least 20 000 - 50 000 units of lipase.

For convenience Creon produced in different dosages. Creon 10000 contains 10,000 lipase units of 150 mg of pancreatin Pancreatin - a means to improve digestion , Creon 25,000 - 25,000 lipase units of 300 mg pancreatin Creon 40,000 - 40,000 lipase units composed of 400 mg of pancreatin.

How to take Creon

Creon capsules are taken orally, it is recommended to take half or a third of a single dose at the beginning of the meal, and the rest - during meals. The capsules should be swallowed whole without breaking them and not liquid, squeezed enough water. Crushing or chewing the microspheres, and adding them to an alkaline diet leads to the destruction of their shell to protect them from the action of gastric juice.

Creon should be used strictly in accordance with the instructions.

Galina Romanenko