Will the baby's indigestion have a bad-smelling stool? What are the treatment methods for baby's indigestion?

Baby indigestion is the most common digestive tract disease in infants and young children. So what are the symptoms of baby indigestion?

What are the symptoms of indigestion in babies?

1. Diarrhea: Indigestion is divided into simple indigestion and toxic indigestion.

The symptoms of simple indigestion are diarrhea less than 10 times a day, yellow or green stools with little water, abdominal bloating, occasional vomiting, and sometimes fever, but not too high. The sick child has a poor appetite but is in good spirits.

Patients with toxic indigestion are seriously ill, with sudden onset and high fever. They usually have bowel movements about 10 times a day, with a high frequency. The stool is usually water or egg drop soup, with no sense of urgency (falling). Frequent vomiting, more than 10 times a day, leads to severe dehydration. The patient even has convulsions and loses consciousness, which can lead to death if not treated early.

2. Unpleasant odor in stool: accompanied by a small amount of undigested food residue. Although it is not diluted, it is a sign of food leakage. At this time, you should immediately reduce the amount of food and adjust to avoid diarrhea.

3. Refusing food: When children occasionally have a poor appetite, refuse food, or the food is not sweet, there is no need to emphasize eating, but let them eat less.

4. Restlessness at night: crying, hot palms, kicking off the quilt and clothes, excessive sweating on the head when just falling asleep, internal heat due to excessive eating, as the saying goes, "If you want a child to be safe, you often feel hungry and cold", "If the stomach is not in harmony, the night is restless". As the child grows older, especially when adding supplementary food, pay attention to not being too full at dinner. Children around 1 year old should not eat a full meal before going to bed.

5. Red cheeks: Children must stop eating in the afternoon and evening. Severely injured children have red cheeks, which are manifested as rough facial skin, slightly hot environment, and red face. At this time, you can go on a diet and eat less staple food, not vegetables and fruits, to help digestion.

6. Bad breath: Bad breath often occurs first when milk and food stagnate in the upper abdomen, especially bad breath and sour breath in the morning are manifestations of milk and food stagnation, clinically known as high food stagnation. When this phenomenon occurs, you can reduce or stop eating to promote the recovery of gastrointestinal function.

The following methods can generally be used to regulate indigestion in children:

1. Diet therapy

Restrict diet to reduce the burden on the gastrointestinal tract. Early fasting can be used at the beginning of the disease. The general fasting time is 6-12 hours, depending on the nutritional status of the child's disease. If the condition is mild and the nutritional status is poor, the fasting time can be short; if the condition is severe and the nutritional status is good, the fasting time can be slightly extended. At some point, only boiled water or light salt water is fed, and then the diet is gradually resumed.

From thin to thick, from less to more, according to the condition, you can gradually resume normal diet within 3-5 days. If you are breastfeeding, you should reduce the number of feedings and the duration of each feeding, and stop supplementing food; the mother should eat less greasy food to reduce the fat in the milk; if you are bottle-feeding, you can first eat rice soup or diluted milk (preferably yogurt), reduce the number of feedings and each feeding.

2. Careful care

Do a good job of oral care and various cleaning and disinfection work, change diapers frequently, and wash the anus with warm water after defecation to prevent red buttocks. The child's abdomen should be kept warm to relieve abdominal pain caused by excessive intestinal peristalsis.

3. Appropriate fluid replacement

Because of vomiting and diarrhea, children not only lose a lot of water, but also a lot of sodium, so they should drink a small amount of light sugar and salt water several times in the early stage. You can also drink some orange water and calcium tablets.

Additionally, sulfonamides or antibiotics may be used to control the infection.