It used to be advised to 'starve' for a while if you had diarrhoea. However, now it is advised to eat small, light meals if you can. Be guided by your appetite. You may not feel like food and most adults can do without food for a few days. Eat as soon as you are able but don't stop drinking. If you do feel like eating, avoid fatty, spicy or heavy food. Plain foods such as bread and rice are good foods to try eating. Antibiotic medicines

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Acute gastroenteritis continuous to be a serious health dilemma in both developed and developing countries [ 10]. According to a recent estimate 36,862 children die every year due to diarrhoea in Pakistan [ 32]. Pakistan is supported by WHO (World health organization) and its partner GAVI (Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunization) to control communicable disease burden including diarrhea. However still there is poor state of health care system in Pakistan. Keeping in mind the importance of proper surveillance program in the country we have determined the prevalence of rotavirus and Campylobacter Jejuni in two major hospitals of Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Pakistan during 2014. Swimming in contaminated water can also lead to traveller's diarrhoea. Try to avoid swallowing any water as you swim; teach children to do the same. Obtain travel health advice before you travel If you are travelling to a destination at high risk for traveller's diarrhoea, you might want to consider buying oral rehydration sachets for children before you travel. These can provide a perfect balance of water, salts and sugar for them and can be used for fluid replacement. Remember that, as mentioned above, safe water is needed to reconstitute the sachets. Shafique and Babar negotiated their way to stumps, with Pakistan soaking up 82 overs – their entire first innings had only lasted 53. But their resistance was not without incident. Shafique was given a reprieve on 20 when Steve Smith turfed a regulation catching chance at first slip from Pat Cummins’s bowling. Shafique was also fortunate to survive a run out chance. On 33, the opener played a Lyon delivery to the on-side and a sliding Green launched a throw that narrowly missed the stumps with the batter well short of the crease. Mugoya I, Kariuki S, Galgalo T, Njuguna C, Omollo J, Njoroge J, et al. Rapid spread of Vibrio cholerae O1 throughout Kenya, 2005. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008; 78: 527-33.RCWG. Rotavirus Classification Working Group: RCWG – Laboratory of Viral Metagenomics 2018. Available from: https://rega.kuleuven.be/cev/viralmetagenomics/virus-classification/rcwg. [cited 2019 Jun 7] Lee G, Pan W, Peñ Ataro Yori P, Olortegui MP, Tilley D, Gregory M, et al. Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Campylobacter Infections Associated with Reduced Growth in Peruvian Children. PLoS One. 2013;7(1):e2036 Available from: www.plosntds.org. [cited 2019 May 3]. Saudy N, Elshabrawy WO, Megahed A, Foad MF, Mohamed AF. Genotyping and Clinicoepidemiological Characterization of Rotavirus Acute Gastroenteritis in Egyptian Children. Polish J Microbiol. 2016;65(4):433–42 Available from: https://pjm-microbiology.publisherspanel.com/gicid/01.3001.0010.8341. [cited 2019 May 12].