Chinese medicine prescription for diarrhea in children

Diarrhea is a common disease caused by multiple pathogens and factors. Repeated diarrhea in babies affects intestinal absorption. What are the causes of diarrhea in summer and autumn? How to treat diarrhea in babies? What should we pay attention to? The following is our detailed introduction, hoping to be helpful to everyone.

Several common diarrhea diseases in summer and autumn

The most common diarrhea in summer and autumn is caused by E. coli infection, while diarrhea in autumn is mostly caused by rotavirus. Diarrhea caused by different causes also has different manifestations. Mothers should carefully observe the baby's stool, carefully observe the frequency, color, and smell of stool, detect problems early, adjust the diet in time, and receive treatment as soon as possible.

Bacterial infection diarrhea: The main manifestation is an increase in the frequency of bowel movements, from several to more than ten times a day, with foamy, mucus-yellow-green stools, and accompanied by fever, abdominal distension, and vomiting. If it is bacterial dysentery, the bowel movements are frequent, but the volume is small, and the stools are mucus, pus, and blood, with a strong odor. In severe cases, there may be high fever, convulsions, etc. Children with severe diarrhea may also have dehydration symptoms such as oliguria, thirst, and mental depression.

Viral diarrhea: It often occurs in autumn, also known as autumn diarrhea. In the early stage, there are symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection such as fever, vomiting, runny nose, cough, etc. In addition, the frequency of stool increases, the color is light and the texture is thin, like egg drop soup or rice soup, without fishy smell, but it is easy to get dehydrated.

Non-infectious diarrhea: mostly caused by improper feeding leading to gastrointestinal dysfunction, such as adding a large amount of starch or fatty foods too early and too much. Children of this type often have abdominal distension and pain, and want to have diarrhea when in pain, which is relieved after diarrhea; the stool smells sour and smelly, accompanied by vomiting, loss of appetite, and restlessness at night. If it is secondary diarrhea caused by long-term abuse of antibiotics, the stool will be like tofu dregs. Sometimes children with colds, pneumonia, and otitis media often have diarrhea.

TCM Syndrome Differentiation for Baby Diarrhea

For children with diarrhea, Chinese medicine divides them into syndromes such as diarrhea caused by food poisoning, diarrhea caused by wind and cold, diarrhea caused by dampness and heat, and diarrhea caused by spleen deficiency based on clinical symptoms.

Diarrhea due to food poisoning: Babies often have loose stools with undigested milk curds and food residues, a sour and smelly taste, or like rotten eggs, and abdominal bloating.

Wind-cold diarrhea: It is often manifested by watery stools with foam and light odor, often accompanied by intestinal rumbling, abdominal pain, clear nasal discharge and cough.

Damp-heat diarrhea: Common stools are watery, frequent, or egg-drop soup-like, with a very foul odor or a little mucus. The baby cries intermittently, is listless or has a fever and irritability, is thirsty, and has yellow urine.

Spleen deficiency diarrhea: Most of the babies have diarrhea that is not treated in time or is not fed properly, and the diarrhea is prolonged and unhealed. The stool is loose, undigested food can be seen, the color is light and not smelly, and diarrhea often occurs after eating food, sometimes mild and sometimes severe, the complexion is sallow, weight does not increase or increases slowly, and the spirit is low. In severe cases, there are symptoms such as rectal prolapse after defecation and cold hands and feet.

Principles of treating baby diarrhea

1. Once the baby has diarrhea, he should go to the hospital in time and receive treatment under the guidance of a doctor. Never use antidiarrheal drugs or antibiotics on your own. For children with mild diarrhea, follow the principles of preventing dehydration, correcting dehydration, continuing diet, and using medication reasonably. Generally, diarrhea will recover quickly.

2. For children with diarrhea due to gastrointestinal disorders, it is not enough to simply use digestive drugs. The use of traditional Chinese medicine can often achieve twice the result with half the effort. According to the different conditions of the baby, use drugs that have the effects of digesting food and eliminating accumulation, dispelling wind and cold, clearing heat and removing dampness, and strengthening the spleen and warming the kidney, such as cloves, cinnamon, kudzu root, evodia rutaecarpa, atractylodes, Chinese yam, and Poria. Oral Chinese patent medicines can be taken: Pi Ke Xin, Jianpi Zhixie San, Changwei Kang Chongji, etc. For those children with long-term diarrhea, or accompanied by vomiting and difficulty taking medicine, the method of applying Chinese medicine to the navel can be used for treatment, which often can achieve satisfactory results.

TCM remedies for baby diarrhea

According to different syndrome differentiation, different drug combinations can be selected, ground into fine powder, mixed with rice wine into a paste, applied to the Shenjue point (navel), covered with medical adhesive tape; peeled off the next day, washed with warm water and then applied new medicine. Once a day, 3 days as a course of treatment. Some children may have mild local redness, but it does not affect the treatment and efficacy, and it can be restored after discontinuation. This method is safe and effective, simple and easy, economical and practical, and easy for babies to accept. When babies have difficulty taking medicine or injections, or when Western medicine treatment is not effective, you may try the navel method.

Loving advice:

1. Do not choose to wean your baby in summer.

2. If the condition does not improve after 3 days of applying the navel, and any of the following symptoms appear, you should go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment: a significant increase in the frequency and amount of diarrhea, frequent vomiting accompanied by obvious thirst, persistent fever, inability to eat normally, and bloody stools.

3. When you take your baby to see a doctor, don't forget to bring a fresh stool sample for testing.

In short, diarrhea can easily cause symptoms such as decreased immune function, frailty and illness, and delayed growth and development in babies, which can seriously endanger the baby's health. Parents should pay attention to this.