If your diarrhea alternates every day or so with the absence of diarrhea, or constipation, and you gradually feel more tired and are losing weight, you may have E histolytica . Occasional resistance to tinidazole has been observed in some Giardia cases. An alternative treatment is quinacrine 100 mg 3 times a day for 6 days. Quinacrine is no longer manufactured, but some supplies still exist. The adventurous baby-boom generation is beginning to travel with their children.
Children can get diarrhea just as easily as their parents.
The approach to children with diarrhea is similar to the approach to adults, but the treatment is different. ORS is mixture of salts, carbohydrates, and water that is more readily absorbed from a sick intestine than plain water. Children cannot safely take norfloxacin or cipfrofloxacin until they are 18 years old. This caution is based on some theoretical concerns, and exceptions can be made in an emergency, as there are no examples of children being hurt by these drugs as yet. However, there is a concern that either drug could affect the growth plates of their bones.