Wash your hands thoroughly before eating or handling food, and always after using the toilet. Management of Traveller's Diarrhoea Traveller's diarrhoea is usually a mild disease, though severe fluid and electrolyte loss can sometimes occur. Treatment is to replace fluid loss with a suitable oral solution. Travellers should go prepared with sachets or tablets of replacement salts and sugars that can be made up using bottled or freshly boiled and cooled water. The sufferer should continue to eat if he or she feels like it.
Food shortens the illness and lessens fluid loss.
Anti motility drugs like loperamide can be used to give symptomatic relief but should not be given to children or if there is a fever. Sometimes a more serious illness like typhoid, cholera, dysentery or hepatitis A may be contracted. The diarrhoea does not settle within 72 hours The sufferer becomes confused The main organisms associated with traveller's diarrhoea are E.Coli, Salmonella, Campylobacter, Shigella, Rotavirus and Giardia.