The best way to care for diarrhea in children

Many parents must be very familiar with the common pediatric disease of pediatric diarrhea and have a good grasp of its pathogenesis. However, many parents do not know how to care for their baby with diarrhea. Let's listen to the experts to introduce in detail how parents should care for children with diarrhea.

First of all, replenish the water lost by the baby as soon as possible

Babies usually lose a lot of water when they have diarrhea. If parents do not pay attention to replenishing water for their children, it is easy to cause dehydration. When babies start to have diarrhea, they are mostly mildly dehydrated. As long as they are under the guidance of a doctor, they can be treated at home. This is timely and convenient, and can also reduce a lot of unnecessary troubles, which is very beneficial for the baby's recovery. So the first thing mothers need to do is to determine whether the baby is mildly dehydrated. Babies with mild dehydration feel thirsty, have slightly dry lips, urinate less than usual, and the color is yellow. They also show irritability and cry easily.

Secondly, give your baby rich food

Traditional methods of treating diarrhea in babies often advocate fasting for a period of time. However, this hinders the nutritional supplementation of the baby's body and easily causes malnutrition in children. Therefore, it is now advocated not to fast babies with diarrhea, but to follow the principle of small and frequent meals, at least 6 times a day. Breastfed babies continue to eat breast milk, but the mother's diet should be lower in fat, otherwise it will aggravate diarrhea; babies who are bottle-fed within 6 months can drink milk at normal amounts; babies over 6 months old who have added weaning food can eat some easily digestible foods, such as porridge, soft noodles, minced fish, a small amount of vegetable puree, fresh fruit juice or banana puree, until 2 weeks after the diarrhea stops.

Third, take care of your baby’s butt

The feces discharged when the baby has diarrhea can irritate the baby's buttocks, and frequent bowel movements can easily cause the buttocks to be contaminated. Therefore, after each bowel movement, the mother should wash the baby's buttocks with warm water, especially the anus and perineum. It is best to use soft and clean cotton diapers, and change them frequently to avoid red buttocks and urinary tract infections. If the baby's buttocks turn red, it should be exposed to the air to dry naturally, and then some diaper rash cream should be applied.

Fourth, closely observe the development of your baby’s condition

Parents can take care of their babies with mild dehydration by themselves, but if the baby is severely dehydrated, parents should send the child to the hospital in time. If the baby's irritability worsens, the fontanelle and eye sockets become sunken, there are fewer tears when crying, the baby looks dry mouth, and when the skin on the inner thigh is pinched and immediately released, the skin wrinkles flatten for more than 2 seconds, these conditions indicate that the baby's body is seriously dehydrated; in addition, if the baby has been treated at home for 3 days, but the condition has not improved, there are frequent large amounts of watery stools, vomiting, thirst increased, can not eat and drink normally, the baby still has little urine after rehydration, the baby has a fever and blood in the stool, etc., then you need to take the baby to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment as soon as possible.

From the above introduction, we can see that once a child has diarrhea, the first thing parents should do is to replenish the child with water as soon as possible, and also make sure the child's diet is nutritious and balanced. At the same time, take good care of the child's butt so that the child's butt will not be infected and cause secondary injury.