Natural Ways to Treat the Stomach Flu

While it is often mislabeled as the “stomach flu”, the condition known medically as viral gastroenteritis is not caused by the influenza virus, but by any one of several other viruses that are highly contagious and transmit easily from one person to another. This illness is marked by symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain and sometimes a fever.

Because it is a viral infection, of course, antibiotics are useless to treat this difficult illness. However, there are some natural methods that people can utilize during the course of this infection that will help to ease the symptoms as much …read more