Diarrhea vs Constipation

Lesson: We only fear worse. Its not that bad after all!

Last week my brother and I had visited my cousin’s place. My sister-in-law was having a tough time with Diarrhea (Lose motions) since past couple of days. In fact since the 31st party she had been to!

Now we had gotten into a discussion about the remedies she can use. My brother had some deeper knowledge on fighting it as he himself used to have them frequently have this till few months back. He started speaking about using Isabgol, curd-on-steriods and triffla. My another cousin, who is about to become a Doctor was nodding his head in agreement. However he expressed confusion in use of Isabgol for Diarrhea. He rather felt that since Isabgol helps in formation of stool so it may increase the frequency of motions for a Diarrhea patient. It should be rather used for a Constipation patient.

The discussion went for about 30 mins and lot of technical jargons like intestinal micro-flora etc were thrown around. I was mainly silent listening to this conversation. Till now. 

I had a rather fundamental doubt. I didn’t knew the exact difference between constipation and diarrhea. Asking this question now would be like asking “Who is Ram”; after the entire Ramayana has been narrated.

I anyways asked. 

Like me, if you have a doubt too, then this image will serve you well!

I half expected the reaction. 

There was a raucous laughter in the room. In fact there were people in the nearby room who were passively listening to our conversation joined in. Some other time in the past I would have gotten embarrassed; perhaps not even asked the question in the first place. 

But this time I was like, “Who cares!”. I laughed, everyone laughed and we all had a great moment together.

I feel everyone should put themselves in more “embarrassing” situations. 

You’d realise: ‘We only fear worse. Its not that bad after all!’