Diagnosis and treatment guidelines for pediatric diarrhea

There are many factors in life that can cause children to suffer from pediatric diarrhea. If parents cannot master them skillfully, they will not be able to successfully help their children prevent the invasion of various diseases in life. We hope that the knowledge we are going to talk about below can help parents and children well.

Overview of Physiological Diarrhea

Physiological diarrhea is common in infants under 6 months old. They are puffy and often have eczema. They have diarrhea soon after birth and have frequent bowel movements, even more than ten times a day. The amount of stool each time is not necessarily large, and it contains a small amount of water, and generally has no special fishy smell. Infants with physiological diarrhea usually have no other symptoms except increased bowel movement. They have a good appetite, no vomiting, and their growth and development are not affected. After adding complementary foods, their bowel movements gradually return to normal.

What causes physiological diarrhea?

We know that infants have a certain limit to their digestive capacity, and if they are fed food that exceeds their capacity, they will suffer from diarrhea. For example, if half of the water in milk is evaporated to make so-called evaporated milk, and then this milk is fed to infants without dilution, some infants may suffer from diarrhea due to the high nutritional value of the milk.

Furthermore, the composition of breast milk varies greatly depending on nationality, eating habits, health status and individual differences. Some breast milk does not contain enough nutrients, resulting in malnutrition for the baby, while some breast milk contains more nutrients than the baby needs, and the excess is excreted from the body with diarrhea. Therefore, although babies with "physiological diarrhea" excrete some nutrients in their stool, they have still absorbed more nutrients than ordinary children.

How to diagnose physiological diarrhea

Physiological diarrhea is common in infants under 6 months old. They are puffy and often have eczema. They have diarrhea soon after birth and have frequent bowel movements, even more than ten times a day. The amount of stool each time is not necessarily large, and it contains a small amount of water, and generally has no special fishy smell. Infants with physiological diarrhea usually have no other symptoms except increased bowel movement. They have a good appetite, no vomiting, and their growth and development are not affected. After adding complementary foods, their bowel movements gradually return to normal.

What are the diagnosis and causes of diarrhea in children? The above knowledge has been introduced in detail. I hope parents can study and master it carefully. We must know that the health of children is the most important, and the health of children depends on the careful care of their parents. We must study hard.