It was last year when my daughter has a lot of stomach pain after the treatment of her urinary tract infection (UTI). Stomach pain is more frequent upon waking up and before going to bed. But after massaging her stomach with aciete manzanilla, the pain was then subside so I though it is due to excessive gas in her stomach. I don’t want to take her to the doctor because it is mean more antibiotic to take and examination.

When we transferred to our new home, she suffered amoebiasis and after treatment of amoebiasis, stomach pain is still present so I decided to have another stool examination. It found out that there are a lot of bacteria in her stool so the doctor gave her another antibiotic for her stomach. The doctor thought that bacteria can be the cause of her stomach pain but after taking of 7 days antibiotic, the stomach pain is still there.

After one week, she suffered severe cough and develop a fever with stomach pain at night so once again I take her to the doctor and gave her cemaflor for upper and lower infection and salbutamol for her cough. After taking these medicine, the fever is on and off with stomach pain so we take her to the hospital and do urinalysis and hematology. According to the result of her urinalysis, there is urinary tract infection but thanks to God that her blood is negative to any illnesses. She didn’t admit to the hospital instead gave another antibiotic such as clariget and relestal for her stomach pain. The doctor advised also to take Kremil S for two weeks because her stomach pain can be a sign of gastritis. Relestal can’t improve her stomach pain so I decided to take advised from the elders here in my neighborhood, lola Maring advised to use betel leaf (samat leaf). I apply castor oil and warm the leaf lightly and then keep it in her stomach for three nights. I believe that traditional medicines are still effective. Her stomach pain is now instantly healed. There is no more complaint for stomach pain. Betel leaf is believe to be effective in digestive and stomach disorder. I also give her pandan lalaki for her urinary tract infection. I boil fresh pandan lalaki with a cup of water and drink it as water.

One morning, my daughter has fever and stomach pain. I thought it is just a fever due to weather condition here. So she take tempra for her fever then after a while she loose bowel. The fever goes down in the afternoon so I thought that everything is ok. I also give her dicycloverine for stomach pain. But at the evening she has heavy stomach pain that she couldn’t sleep and at the same time loose bowel so I worry so my husband go to the laboratory for stool examination and find out that there is protozoa in her bowel. The doctor prescribed metronidazole for amoebiasis and cotrimoxazole for antibacterial to be taken for 7 to 10 days. And also the doctor advised her to drink distilled water or boiled water. After two days of treatment she seems to be okay but still she has to take her medicine.

Amoebiasis is caused by parasites such as Entamoeba histolytica when indigested through contaminated water or food. Symptoms of amoebiasis are diarrhea, stomach pain or stomach cramps, nausea and fever. As of now there is no vaccine available for amoebiasis so it is important to make sure that you drink bottled water when traveled and a cleaned food.