How to care for children with diarrhea

Diarrhea is a common disease in babies. Family care measures are very important for recovery during the child's illness. So how should we care for children with diarrhea? This is something many parents want to know clearly. Let me introduce you to the relevant care methods below.

1. When babies have diarrhea, the amount of food they eat should be reduced appropriately. Babies who eat complementary foods should mainly eat noodle soup, rice soup, and rice noodles. You can fry the noodles until they are slightly yellow, and make noodle soup with fried noodles and thin shredded ginger. Then pick out the shredded ginger and feed it to the baby. The fried noodles are easy to digest, which is what we usually call "replenishing the stomach" (note that babies with damp-heat diarrhea should not add shredded ginger). You can also boil apple water to drink, and steaming apples also has an antidiarrheal effect. Avoid eating high-protein, high-fat, and polysaccharide foods, such as eggs, fish, meat, fried and greasy foods, cream, high-sugar beverages, snacks, etc., as well as vegetables, because the crude fiber in vegetables can aggravate diarrhea. Breastfed babies should reduce the amount of milk, and mothers should not eat spicy and greasy foods. For artificially fed babies, milk powder can be replaced with lactose-free soy milk powder suitable for babies during diarrhea.

2. Here are some small prescriptions for you: For children with wind-cold diarrhea and spleen-kidney yang deficiency diarrhea, you can fry salt or heat it in a microwave, then wrap the hot salt with gauze and put it on the baby's navel for hot compress, 10 to 15 minutes at a time, 2 to 3 times a day. Remember to keep the temperature moderate and never burn the baby's delicate skin. For children who usually eat a lot of meat and cause diarrhea due to food poisoning, in addition to moderate diet, you can also boil hawthorn, drink water, and eat hawthorn; babies around one year old can take Wang's Baochi Pills or Infant Jianpi Powder.

3. If the baby has severe diarrhea, frequent bowel movements, and significantly reduced urination, in order to prevent dehydration, pay attention to oral rehydration for the baby. Add appropriate amounts of sugar and salt to boiled water to make a light sugar-salt solution for the baby, because the small intestine absorbs sugar and salt well, which can relieve dehydration. When giving the baby noodle soup or rice soup, just add salt, no sugar. After rehydration, carefully observe the baby's urine volume and make sure it is about the same as usual.

4. Be sure to keep your baby's abdomen, back and feet warm, and don't let your baby develop the habit of playing barefoot.

To sum up, we have introduced to parents the care methods for children with diarrhea. I believe that after reading this article, you will have new gains in this regard. During the high-incidence season of diarrhea, you should pay more attention to the child’s physical and temperature changes, and add or remove clothes appropriately to avoid diarrhea.