I have heard that it dehydrates you to death, but couldn’t you just keep drinking water? Even before modern medicine I’m sure water wasn’t impossible for people to get.
Edit: Thank you for the simple answers! In hindsight, I feel kind of silly not realizing that you need to ABSORB the water…
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If you didn’t have access to a clean source of water, i.e., it’s what was causing the diarrhea to begin with, then drinking more of it isn’t going to help any. Severe cases can last for days and drain you of a *lot* of water, more than you might be taking in from drinking alone. And it is oftentimes a symptom of other more serious infections that are doing other things to your body in the meantime.
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