Antidiarrheal Agents: More to the Apple Sauce Than You Might Think: Treating infectious diarrheas.

Recent advances have now made it possible to target specific therapy for infectious diarrheas for individual microbes that are well established as diarrheal pathogens. Improvements in non-specific therapy have particularly addressed hydration, electrolyte balance, and nutritional intake. As our understanding of the infectious diarrheas continues to progress, we can anticipate further improvement.