How to treat diarrhea in children

Children will often encounter symptoms of pediatric diarrhea during their growth process, which seriously harms the gastrointestinal health of the children and brings them a lot of pain. The occurrence of diarrheal diseases must be actively treated. Read on to introduce to friends the relevant treatment measures for pediatric diarrhea diseases.

Diarrhea in children occurs all year round, but summer and autumn are the most common seasons. Diarrhea can be divided into infectious and non-infectious. Keeping a good entrance is the key. There are many other factors, such as environmental hygiene, food production process, hygiene habits of feeders, and the resistance of the whole body and digestive tract of infants and young children are all related to diarrhea. Non-infectious diarrhea is mostly caused by improper feeding or food allergies, or too hot weather, or cold. If the stool is sour and foamy, it is mostly caused by excessive intake of cereal starch; if the stool is creamy, it is mostly caused by excessive fat intake; if the stool is foul-smelling, like rotten eggs, it is mostly caused by eating too much meat, fish and eggs. Observing the stool characteristics, it reminds parents to adjust the food carefully during feeding, which can be corrected. This type of diarrhea does not have many bowel movements, 3 to 4 times a day, without vomiting, fever, good spirits and sleep, and appropriately feed more sugar and salt water, carrot soup, and steamed applesauce. When the stool is no longer thin, the original diet can be gradually restored.

For example, for infants who are breastfed, it is not necessary to stop breastfeeding when they have diarrhea. It is only necessary to reduce the amount of feeding appropriately, that is, shorten the feeding time and extend the feeding interval, that is, it originally takes 10 minutes to feed each breast. Change it to 5-7 minutes, and squeeze out the remaining milk. Because the fat content in the latter part of the milk is high, the nutritional content of breast milk is closely related to the mother's diet. When the child has diarrhea, the mother should eat less fat-rich foods. At the same time, drink a cup of warm water before feeding to dilute the breast milk, which is beneficial to improve the symptoms of infant diarrhea. When infants who are fed with milk have diarrhea, use rice soup to feed milk, such as half and half, or 2 parts of milk and 1 part of rice soup. The purpose of diluting milk is to make the intestines gradually adapt. The reason for using rice soup to wash milk is that rice soup has no fermentation effect, which reduces the stimulation of acid on the intestines and is conducive to the cure of diarrhea. When the stool returns to normal, change it to the original concentration. The other type of diarrhea is related to the season. Infectious diarrhea caused by climate change, which occurs in July is called summer diarrhea, and most of them are caused by eating food that has been bitten by flies or is not very fresh.

"Autumn diarrhea" occurs from September to early November. September is the peak month for the disease. The onset age is between 6 months and 18 months. The pathogen is a virus. It is characterized by an acute onset, a fever of 38℃ to 40℃, diarrhea and upper respiratory tract infection symptoms. The stool is rice soup-like or egg-drop-like, flushed out like water, without a fishy smell. Dehydration symptoms will soon appear, such as sunken eye sockets, dry lips, thirst, crying and restlessness. When the stool is 4 to 5 times a day, there is no vomiting, and the spirit is good, there should also be a treatment plan at home: (1) give more water to prevent and correct dehydration; (2) continue to give easily digestible food; (3) use appropriate and reasonable medication, such as Smectite and Lactase. In order to reduce the inconvenience caused by intravenous rehydration, when the dehydration is not severe and the number of bowel movements is not large, give more water to replenish fluids.

Rice soup plus salt solution, the preparation method is to add 1.75g ​​of fine salt (about half of a flat beer bottle cap) to 1 jin (500ml) of rice soup, and take it orally at any time, give as much as the patient can drink. Sugar and salt solution, the preparation method is to add 10g (two small flat spoons) of sucrose to 1 jin of boiled water and 1.75g ​​of fine salt, and take it orally at any time. Oral rehydration saline solution can be bought in various hospitals and on the market. It is very convenient to use. One bag can be mixed with 1 jin (500ml) of warm boiled water. For those who are not severely dehydrated, feed 50ml per kilogram of body weight, and finish the feeding within 4 hours. If there is moderate dehydration, increase the solution feeding to 80ml~100ml per kilogram of body weight, and finish it within 6 hours.

After understanding the above content, everyone knows what the treatment measures are for pediatric diarrhea. Diarrhea brings more pain and causes serious damage to the gastrointestinal tract of the children. Therefore, we must have a clear understanding of the knowledge of pediatric diarrhea, and our baby needs to receive relevant treatment as soon as possible after the onset of the disease.