Category: Diarrhea

1. Fluids with salt, first and through the day. A cup of broth, water with a pinch of salt, or a sugar-free electrolyte mix, a few sips every ten to fifteen minutes. Drink between meals, not with them. Urine going from dark to pale yellow is the sign it is working.
2. Start small and plain. Rice, oats, a banana, toast, a boiled egg, plain chicken or fish, a cup of soup. Something every three to four hours, stopping at satisfied. Volume is the enemy of a slow gut.
3. Add protein early. Bananas, rice and toast on their own are low in protein, and muscle is what you want to keep. Eggs, Greek yogurt if dairy suits you, cottage cheese, fish and chicken in small portions belong on day one, not day three.
4. Add soluble fiber gently. A small bowl of oats, or half a serving of psyllium in a full glass of water, once a day. It firms loose stool by absorbing the excess. Skip bran and raw vegetables for now.
5. Leave off, for a few days: fried and greasy food, cream sauces, fast food; sugary drinks, juice and dessert; sugar-free gum, candy and drinks with sorbitol, xylitol or mannitol; coffee, tea with caffeine, alcohol and carbonated drinks; and milk products with lactose, if they loosen you.
6. Return to your normal plate as soon as the stool steadies. The NIDDK guidance for diarrhea is to eat your usual diet as soon as you feel able, not to stay restricted, and most people are back within two or three days.
7. Plan the shot week. Diarrhea is most likely two or three days after the injection and in the two weeks after a dose step. Keep those days smallest and simplest, and if the pattern does not ease, bring it to your prescriber.

1. Water and salt first. Diarrhea takes both. Sip small amounts often, and add a broth, a pinch of salt, or a sugar-free electrolyte mix. In the body, water follows salt.
2. Shrink the meal, not the day. Something small every three to four hours, stopping at satisfied rather than full. A slow gut copes with volume badly.
3. Take fat and sugar off the plate for a few days: fried food, greasy takeout, cream sauces, sugary drinks, sugar-free gum and candy with sorbitol or xylitol. These are the three things a slowed gut turns into diarrhea.
4. Choose soluble fiber, gently. Oats, psyllium, chia and cooked vegetables form a soft gel that absorbs water and steadies loose stool as well as hard stool. Raw vegetables and bran do the opposite for now.
5. Plan for the curve. The medication level peaks two or three days after the shot, and the first higher shot of each dose step is when the swing is strongest. Keep those days simple.
6. Do not overcorrect. Stopping every laxative the moment stool loosens, then restarting at full strength when it stops, is what keeps the swing going. Small, steady changes. Steady is also why we built GLP-1 SOS Daily Gut Relief as one daily formula for both phases: ginger, peppermint and a 19-strain probiotic blend for the loose, gassy days, and 250 mg of magnesium for the stuck days that usually follow, rather than a different bottle for each.*
7. If the diarrhea is a pattern rather than a day, write down what you ate the day before each episode and bring it to your prescriber. Staying longer on the current dose is a normal thing to ask for.

*GLP-1 SOS Daily Gut Relief supports regular bowel movements and digestive comfort. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.