Comments | thebratqueen: So this is what they call "sitting upright"

thebratqueen

So this is what they call "sitting upright"

Feb 20, 2010 14:17

There I was, on Tuesday, minding my own business, enjoying my Mardi Gras, maybe having a tiny bit of a headache but not thinking too much of it -- yanno, usual kind of stuff.

Then at around... ohh... 7:30pm? 8? My plans for the week changedAs I emailed my boss later in the week "This blows. Sadly literally ( Read more... )

luna, mac, health, sadly literal blowing

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midnightfae February 20 2010, 19:46:58 UTC

What about soy? Soymilk in cereal and soy creamer in tea are both very good...

midnightfae February 20 2010, 19:47:29 UTC

I should finish reading the post before I comment. :/

thebratqueen February 20 2010, 19:50:23 UTC

S'okay. We've all been there ;)

mecurtin February 20 2010, 19:55:49 UTC

Well, the first part is what they call BRATTY:

bananas
rice
applesauce
tea
toast (dry)
yogurt (no fruit)

When those stay down nicely, add:

noodles
broth
skinless chicken
cheerios
ginger ale

drgaellon February 20 2010, 20:28:01 UTC

NO YOGURT. No dairy at all for 48 hours after the diarrhea stops.

Diarrhea, regardless of cause, strips the lactase from the intestinal villi. Eating anything with lactose will result in continuation of the diarrhea due to lactose intolerance (acquired, rather than natural), which will prevent the lactase from regenerating. You need 48 hours of normal bowel function to restore your normal levels of lactase. (Of course, if you were lactose intolerant before your intestinal infection, you will still be after...)

thebratqueen February 20 2010, 20:32:57 UTC

How are we defining normal bowel function? Just so I don't screw the timeline up.

drgaellon February 20 2010, 20:37:17 UTC

Whatever your personal usual/normal is. (I suffer from irritable bowel syndrome, myself, so I swing back and forth from one extreme to the other. When I start having trouble going, I know the stomach bug is over.)

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ashcomp February 20 2010, 19:59:21 UTC

Probably best to stay off the kung pao and tabasco for a while :)

thebratqueen February 20 2010, 20:03:03 UTC

You ruin all my fun.

wrenlet February 20 2010, 20:00:32 UTC

I caught Something Horrible my first semester of college, and the doc told me to stick to toast, rice, unbuttered pasta and hard-boiled eggs. ("How long?" I asked him. "Until you can look at other food without getting nauseated," he said.)

thebratqueen February 20 2010, 20:02:50 UTC

Heh. And that's good. Eggs I can cope with (in the sense that I have them on hand and hard-boiling doesn't take much out of me), but wasn't sure if the yolks would count as being too rich.

wrenlet February 20 2010, 20:24:52 UTC

Keep in mind it's 20-year-old advice, but it did work for me.

thebratqueen February 20 2010, 20:30:18 UTC

Well clearly it hasn't killed you ;)

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janedavitt February 20 2010, 20:12:01 UTC

Oh that's just such an awful thing to get :-( ::gentle hugs::