Avoid milk products, fruit juices, coffee, chocolate, fatty foods and alcoholic drinks. Drink plenty of fluids - clear soups, herbal teas with honey and water. At least one glass after each loose stool. Soft drinks from which the fizz has gone out. Ask the pharmacist for over the counter anti-diarrhoea medication.
Dehydration is a risk, so remember to drink plenty of fluids.
If there is mucus, pus or blood in the stool. Diarrhoea still going strong after 4 to 5 days. If there is continuous pain rather than separate bouts of stomach cramps. You are diabetic or have another chronic illness. You are pregnant.