Dietary taboos for children with diarrhea syndrome

Children's diarrhea is mostly caused by the baby's poor physical condition. In the early stage of the disease, the child will have symptoms such as high fever and increased bowel movements. Severe cases may be complicated by children's enteritis. Active treatment can curb it to the greatest extent. In addition to routine treatment, dietary care is also very important. So, what are the dietary taboos for children with diarrhea?

Dietary taboo 1: Avoid meat soups such as eggs and chicken soup, and high-protein foods such as meat, fish, and shrimp. Because the intestinal putrefaction of babies with diarrhea is very strong, high-protein intake will aggravate diarrhea.

Dietary taboo 2: Avoid milk and yogurt. Yogurt and milk are gas-producing foods. Eating them will cause flatulence in the intestines, increase intestinal motility and aggravate diarrhea, so they should not be consumed. If babies aged six months to one year who have not been weaned want to drink milk, they can buy special diarrhea milk powder. Babies who have been weaned for more than one year can eat some rice soup and porridge to help restore the function of the digestive system.

Dietary taboo three: Avoid bean foods and bean products, such as green beans, broad beans, soybeans, mung beans, bean sprouts, tofu, and vermicelli. These foods are rich in crude fiber and protein, which can increase the baby's intestinal peristalsis and cause flatulence, and aggravate diarrhea.

Dietary taboo 4: Avoid eating fruits and vegetables containing crude fiber, such as bananas, pineapples, watermelons, green vegetables, cabbage, bamboo shoots, peppers, leeks, sweet potatoes, etc. Because fiber can promote intestinal peristalsis, thus aggravating baby's diarrhea.

Dietary taboo 5: Avoid sugar. Sugar entering the intestines often causes fermentation and aggravates flatulence, so babies should not eat sugar or eat less sugar during diarrhea.

When a child has diarrhea, what care measures should parents take?

1. Diet care: (1) If the child is currently taking complementary food, stop feeding complementary food or reduce the frequency and amount. The child should stop feeding high-fat foods. If the child is breastfeeding, breastfeeding should be continued as much as possible.

(2) Children with nausea and vomiting should be fed with small amounts, multiple times, and slowly, in addition to easily digestible food. When diarrhea and vomiting are particularly severe, the number of feedings can be reduced. Long-term fasting is not recommended to avoid harm to the child.

(3) For children with diarrhea who do not vomit severely, try to feed them oral saline solution. For those with mild to moderate dehydration, dehydration can usually be corrected as long as they continue to be fed.

(4) For children with diarrhea who have not yet become dehydrated, rehydration salts can be fed to them shortly after the onset of diarrhea to prevent or reduce the occurrence of dehydration and acidosis. If rehydration salts are not available at home, rice soup or boiled water with appropriate salt can be used instead, adding 1g of salt to every 500ml.

2 Skin care: Infants and young children have very delicate skin. The stools discharged during diarrhea are highly acidic and occur more frequently. If the diaper is not changed in time, the buttocks will be red to varying degrees. In severe cases, it may cause skin erosion. Therefore, diapers must be changed frequently and the skin must be cleaned and dried. You can apply some protective and non-irritating oil or ointment on the skin, or erythromycin ointment.

Through the above detailed introduction, I believe that everyone must have a deeper understanding now. When your child has diarrhea, you must pay attention to the reasonable combination of diet and avoid feeding your child with some unreasonable food. In addition, in daily life, parents can take the time to learn more about health care and prevention knowledge in this regard, so that they can better solve it after it happens.