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Treatment may irritate your bowels and give you frequent, loose bowel movements. This may make you feel tired and sick, and your body may lose fluids.
Your hospital doctor is likely to give you some medicine to make your bowels more regular.
There are also things you can do to help yourself…
- If you are taking laxatives, stop.
- Try a change of diet. Stop eating high fibre foods such as fruit, green vegetables, wholemeal bread and wholegrain cereals. Instead, eat foods like white bread, cornflakes and potatoes with no skin.
- Drink plenty of fluids to replace the ones your body is losing. Water, tea, fruit squash, milk and fizzy drinks are all OK.
- Tell your hospital doctor or GP if the diarrhoea doesn't stop.
More tips on coping with diarrhoea, including ideas for a low fibre diet
