Hi, I am Joe Graedon. I am pharmacologist. I write the “People’s Pharmacy” newspaper column and co-host to People’s Pharmacy radio show.

Nothing cramps your style quite like diarrhea. But before you rush off to the pharmacy, what is the cause? If you are sensitive to milk sugar, you might want to take an enzyme like lactate to solve the problem.

If you ate some bad potato salad, who better get to the doctor and seek an antibiotic. But if it is garden variety diarrhea, well we got something for you right here. For one thing Immodium, the ingredient is loperamide, it works really very well to control diarrhea. Of course there is always the familiar paint liquid, but I got something you have never heard off.

Coconut macaroon cookies, we think it is the coconut that does the job. A lot of folks have told us that her chronic diarrhea nothing bits coconut macaroon cookies or just plain coconut. There is one other possibility and that is little pomegranate juice, not only can it lower your blood pressure and your cholesterol, but it just might control your diarrhea too.