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Foods found in a BRAT diet, like bananas, rice, toast and applesauce
March 27, 2025/Digestive

Why You Shouldn’t Follow a Strict BRAT Diet When You’re Sick

Bananas, rice, applesauce and toast are easy on your stomach, but they don’t have enough vitamins and nutrients for more than a couple days

Blue-colored virus molecules
March 11, 2025/Infectious Disease

Norovirus Germs Can Live on Surfaces for up to Two Weeks

You can catch this highly contagious virus through contaminated food, water, droplets and more

Wooden spoonful of activated charcoal tablets and capsules, and small dish of loose activated charcoal
December 2, 2024/Digestive

Should You Take Activated Charcoal for a Stomach Bug (or Any Other Reason)?

Charcoal pills are used in certain emergency room settings but aren’t recommended for home use

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Tips for Cleaning Up and Disinfecting After Norovirus

Use a bleach solution to sanitize surfaces like doorknobs, counters, toilets and light switches

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Person in bathroom holding stomach and hand over mouth
June 10, 2024/Digestive

Why Am I Throwing Up? And When To See a Doctor

The stomach flu, food poisoning and motion sickness can make you vomit and may result in dehydration

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February 2, 2024/Primary Care

What To Eat, Drink and Avoid When You Have the Stomach Flu

Start slowly with clear fluids, and then move to bland, easy-to-digest foods

woman sick in bed and sneezing
August 1, 2023/Primary Care

6 Common Illnesses and How You Can Avoid Spreading Them

Untreated, some infections can be contagious for up to four weeks!

Person sick to stomach and by bathroom toilet to vomit.

Stomach Flu or Food Poisoning? How To Tell

Time of onset and duration of symptoms tell the story

man sick wants to vomit
April 5, 2022/Digestive

Vomiting 101: Why You Throw Up and the Best Way To Recover

Drink small amounts of water for a few hours after throwing up

child with stomachache
October 12, 2021/Children's Health

Stomachaches in Kids: 5 Things Parents Should Know

How to tell if it's something more serious

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