What is infantile diarrhea?
Diarrhea in children is a disease caused by many pathogens and many reasons. Most of the children are under 2 years old, especially 6- 1 1 month. The peak of diarrhea mainly occurs in June-September every year and June of the following year 10-June10. Diarrhea in summer is usually caused by bacterial infection, mostly mucus stool, which has a foul smell; Diarrhea in autumn is mostly caused by rotavirus, which is common in diluted water samples or pasty stools, but it has no foul smell. The incidence of diarrhea is second only to acute respiratory infection, and the mortality rate is very high if it cannot be treated in time and effectively. The main causes of death are dehydration and electrolyte disorder caused by diarrhea.
Why does the baby have diarrhea easily?
Cause 1 Because 1-2-year-old babies grow and develop very rapidly, and their bodies need more nutrition and heat energy. However, the digestive organs are not fully developed, and less digestive enzymes are secreted. Therefore, the digestive ability is weak and diarrhea is easy.
The second reason is that because the nervous system has poor regulation function on gastrointestinal tract, the diet changes slightly, such as it is not suitable to add weaning food, adding too many kinds in a short time, or suddenly weaning after feeding too much at one time; Or improper diet, such as eating indigestible protein food; Low temperature and cold in the body accelerate intestinal peristalsis, the weather is too hot, the secretion of digestive juice is reduced, the temperature difference in autumn is large, and the stomach is easy to catch cold, which can all cause diarrhea.
Reason 3 Because of the low immunity of the whole body and gastrointestinal tract, diarrhea can be caused as long as food or utensils are slightly polluted; Infants are prone to respiratory infections due to low resistance, and often cause diarrhea when they have colds, pneumonia and otitis media.
How to judge the baby's diarrhea?
Judging from the number of defecations 1
Normal babies usually have yellow stools 1-2 times a day. Diarrhea can cause more defecation times than normal, ranging from 4-6 times to 10 times or even dozens of times.
Judging from the characteristics of stool II
It is watery stool, egg drop soup stool, and sometimes mucus stool or purulent stool. At the same time, the baby is accompanied by vomiting milk, bloating, fever, irritability and poor spirit.
Main points of Mami home care
Pay attention to 1 replenish the lost water as soon as possible.
Many mothers go to the hospital as soon as their babies have diarrhea. In fact, in the early stage of diarrhea, most babies are slightly dehydrated. As long as it is under the guidance of a doctor, it can be treated at home. This is timely and convenient, and it can also reduce a lot of unnecessary troubles, which is very beneficial to the baby's recovery. Then, the first thing mommy has to do is to judge whether the baby is slightly dehydrated. Slightly dehydrated babies feel thirsty, slightly dry lips, less urine than usual, yellow color, manifested as irritability and crying.
Mommy can choose one of the following rehydration methods: rehydration with homemade sugar and salt water, that is, add 1.75g refined salt and 10g white sugar to 5000ml warm boiled water, where 1.75g refined salt is equivalent to half a beer bottle cap and 10g white sugar is equivalent to 2 teaspoons; The homemade rice soup is supplemented with salt solution, that is,1.75g refined salt is added to 500ml warm water; Use ORS (oral rehydration salt) prescribed by your doctor to replenish water. ORS rehydration salt is a prepared dry powder, which can be made into liquid according to the instructions.
Then in the first 4 hours, according to the baby's weight per kilogram, give 20-40 ml of liquid. After that, take it orally at any time and drink as much as you can. Babies under 2 years old can feed a teaspoon every 1-2 minutes, and older babies can drink it in small cups. If the baby vomits, wait 10 minutes before feeding slowly; Once the baby has eyelid edema, it means that some rehydration is excessive, and it should be temporarily changed to drinking boiled water or breast milk.
Love tip: Do not add ORS rehydration salt to milk, rice soup, fruit juice or other drinks, and do not add sugar after preparation according to the instructions, otherwise it will affect the rehydration effect.
Point 2: Give your baby enough food to prevent malnutrition.
The traditional treatment of diarrhea advocates that children should be fasted for a period of time. But this hinders the body's nutritional supplement and is prone to malnutrition. Now, babies who advocate diarrhea should not fast, and should follow the principle of small amount and multiple meals, and eat at least 6 times a day. Breastfed babies continue to eat breast milk, but mommy's diet contains less fat, otherwise it will aggravate diarrhea; Babies who are artificially fed within 6 months can drink milk according to the usual amount; Babies weaned for more than 6 months can eat some digestible foods, such as porridge, rotten noodles, minced fish, a small amount of vegetable paste, fresh juice or banana puree, until 2 weeks after diarrhea stops.
The third point: little ass who takes good care of the baby.
Because the frequency of baby defecation has increased a lot, it will continue to pollute little ass. Moreover, the feces discharged during diarrhea are more irritating to the skin. Therefore, every time the baby defecates, mommy should wash little ass with warm water, especially pay attention to the cleanliness of 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 little ass is red, it should be exposed to the air to dry naturally, and then apply some diaper rash cream.
Focus 4 closely observe the development of the baby's condition.
If the baby's irritability is aggravated, the fontanel and eye socket are sunken, and there are fewer tears when crying, which makes him look thirsty. Moreover, the skin on the inner thigh was picked up by hand, and then immediately released, and the skin wrinkles flattened for more than 2 seconds. This situation shows that the baby's body dehydration is already heavy; Or you have been treated at home for 3 days, but your condition has never improved. You often have watery stools, vomiting and thirst increase, and you can't drink water normally. Your urine is still very little after rehydration, and your baby has a fever and bloody stool. Need to take the baby to the hospital for treatment.
How does the baby always have loose bowels?
Some babies have diarrhea, but there is no result all the time. The illness lasts for more than 2 weeks or even months. At the same time, poor appetite and slow weight gain. Mommy is in a hurry, but I don't know why. Usually, this may be caused by several reasons:
Cause 1 Acute diarrhea is not completely cured, which is more common in babies who have not breast-fed to breast milk. Such a baby's stomach acid and digestive enzymes are secreted less, and its digestive ability is weak, so that normal bacteria in the lower part of the intestine run to the upper part of the intestine to decompose and ferment the food eaten, forming corrupt substances that constantly stimulate the intestine, leading to long-lasting diarrhea. In this regard, under the guidance of a doctor, dietotherapy can be used for treatment, such as diluted milk, burnt rice soup, yogurt, fish protein powder, carrot soup, apple puree and so on.
Reason 2: Long-term use of antibiotics kills normal flora and enables a large number of pathogenic bacteria to multiply. Antibiotics should be stopped immediately, and some drugs supporting normal bacterial growth should be taken under the guidance of a doctor, so that the intestine can return to normal as soon as possible.
Reason three is allergic to protein in milk. Stop drinking immediately, try breastfeeding, or feed soybean milk powder and rice paste, and add weaning food in time. If it is serious, you need to go to the hospital for intravenous nutrition.
Common misunderstandings of mommy care
Myth 1 As long as you defecate frequently, it is diarrhea.
Some mothers are often eager to take antidiarrheal drugs in this situation, but the problem is not that simple. Because, the baby within 6 months may often excrete yellow-green loose stool after feeding shortly after birth. At least 4-6 times a day, and at most 10 times, there are milk lumps or a little transparent mucus in the stool.
This situation is more common in breast-fed babies. It's actually physiological diarrhea. With the gradual development of digestive function, it will naturally improve after adding weaning food, rather than suffering from enteritis. As long as the baby's appetite is normal, the spirit is happy, the reaction is good, the sleep is stable, the weight is also increasing, and there is nothing abnormal in the stool examination, it should be used.
There is no need to take antidiarrheal drugs, so as not to affect the normal intestinal function.
Myth 2 Diarrhea is caused by bacteria.
Some mothers give antibiotics to relieve inflammation as soon as they see their baby having diarrhea. In fact, besides bacteria, diarrhea may also be caused by viruses or molds. For example, autumn diarrhea in infants is caused by rotavirus infection. This kind of diarrhea is completely ineffective after taking antibiotics, which will only cause intestinal flora disorder and lead to more serious diarrhea. Some antibiotics can even damage the baby's auditory nerve or cause short stature in the future. Therefore, when taking antibiotics doesn't work, stop taking them immediately and seek medical advice quickly.
Myth 3: Give sugar to the baby with diarrhea.
When the baby has loose bowels, mommy often adds some sugar to porridge or rice soup, thinking that it can supplement heat energy and is easy to digest. However, this will only aggravate diarrhea. Because diarrhea damages the intestinal mucosa, sugar can't be decomposed into monosaccharides that can be absorbed by the intestine, so water passively enters the intestine from the intestinal wall, which leads to the increase of water in the intestinal cavity and the increase of defecation times.
Diarrhea in children is the second most common and frequently-occurring disease after respiratory tract infection. In summer and autumn, when the weather is warm and hot, there will be more children with diarrhea, especially infants under 2 years old. Infection is the most common cause of diarrhea in children. In addition, children's gastrointestinal function is not perfect, and they are allergic to breast milk or certain foods, which can also cause diarrhea. How to prevent and care for infantile diarrhea? To this end, the reporter interviewed Dong, chief physician of internal medicine of Beijing Children's Hospital.
Several methods of preventing and treating infantile diarrhea
Breastfeeding can prevent diarrhea.
Especially in the first few months after birth, you should breastfeed. Because breast milk is most suitable for babies' nutritional needs and digestive ability. Breast milk contains a variety of digestive enzymes and antibodies needed by children, and various nutrients are very suitable for children to digest and absorb, which can neutralize the enterotoxin of Escherichia coli and prevent the infection of Escherichia coli, which is much superior to milk and breast milk substitutes. In addition to chronic diseases such as tuberculosis and heart and kidney diseases, breastfeeding should be advocated. Pay attention to the correct feeding method, breastfeed regularly, and avoid weaning in summer and when the child is sick. Breastfeeding can prevent diarrhea in children.
Use a bowl spoon instead of a bottle.
Bottles, especially rubber nipples, are easy to be contaminated, not easy to clean and disinfect, and easy to be contaminated, leading to diarrhea in children. If you change to a bowl spoon, the probability of pollution is smaller than that of a bottle.
Timely rehydration and prevention of dehydration
Most children have acute diarrhea, and frequent diarrhea will cause rapid loss of water and nutrients in the body, causing acute dehydration. At home, parents can add 20g white sugar (two flat spoons) and1.75g salt (half a beer bottle cap) to 500ml boiled water (or rice soup) for oral rehydration. Children with diarrhea need more fluids than usual, so they should be encouraged to drink more water from the beginning. Children under 2 years old can be supplemented with 50 ~ 100ml oral liquid after each diarrhea, and the daily intake is not less than 500ml；; People over 2 years old should drink as much as possible, with a daily intake of not less than 1000 ml to prevent dehydration. If the child has symptoms of dehydration, he should go to the hospital immediately and continue to supplement oral liquid on the way.
Add complementary food on time
Children grow and develop rapidly, whether breastfeeding or artificial feeding, complementary food should be added on time to meet nutritional needs. When adding complementary food, the variety should not be too much, and the replacement should not be too frequent. Only after the baby gradually adapts to the new food can he gradually add other foods. Specifically, when adding complementary food, we should pay attention to the baby's digestive ability, only increase one at a time, from less to more, and gradually increase. Generally, vitamins C and D are added half a month after birth, vegetable soup, milk cake or rice paste are added 2-3 months, and egg yolk, minced meat and chopped vegetables are added 4-6 months.
Pay attention to the quality of diet
When mixed feeding and artificial feeding are adopted due to insufficient or lack of breast milk, attention should be paid to diet distribution. It is not advisable to feed rice paste or porridge too much or too early to avoid indigestion of carbohydrates and affect children's growth and development. If the baby's breast milk is insufficient from birth to 3 months, it can be supplemented with milk or soybean milk. Both milk and milk substitute need to be properly diluted to facilitate digestion and absorption. When you have a bad appetite, you should not force yourself to eat.
strengthen body physique
At ordinary times, we should strengthen outdoor activities, improve our adaptability to the natural environment, pay attention to children's physical exercise, strengthen their physique, improve their physical resistance, and avoid contracting various diseases.
Avoid bad stimulation
Children should prevent fatigue, fright or mental stress in their daily life. All these may lead to diarrhea in children.
Don't abuse antibiotics.
In fact, more than half of children's diarrhea is caused by viruses or improper diet. For diarrhea caused by these reasons, antibacterial drugs are not only ineffective, but will kill the normal flora in the intestine, cause flora disorder and aggravate diarrhea.
No need to fast, pay more water.
Some parents think that "eat more Dora, don't eat or pull" as soon as they see their children having diarrhea, and they are smart enough to fast their children. This is tantamount to adding fuel to the fire and will aggravate the degree of dehydration. Therefore, you don't need to fast when you have diarrhea, but you should replenish more water, especially a nutritious liquid or semi-liquid diet, such as rice porridge, noodles, milk and broth.
Carrot paste can cure diarrhea.
When the baby has diarrhea, taking carrot paste in batches at the same time of drug treatment will help the recovery of the disease. Take a proper amount of fresh carrots, wash and chop them, boil them in water, take them out, and mash them into paste (the water for cooking carrots is reserved for later use). When eating, add 5 to 100 g (about a spoonful) of carrot paste to 100 ml of boiled carrot water. The food intake is mainly based on the baby's food intake, which can be fed according to the usual food intake. Generally speaking, the baby is fed with carrot paste for 2 to 3 days, and the stool is formed.
Nursing points of children with diarrhea
Record the frequency, quantity and nature of defecation, urination and vomiting. When you see a doctor, you should take a stool sample with you so that the doctor can check and confirm the diagnosis.
Children with diarrhea are often prone to dehydration, coupled with diet control, and are prone to chills. If your limbs are cold and your body temperature doesn't rise, you can keep warm with a hot water bottle. When using hot water bottles, care should be taken not to burn children.
Diarrhea children defecate more frequently, and Qin Ying changed diapers. Wipe your hips with warm water after each defecation (girls should wash them from front to back), and then blot them with a soft cloth. You can apply tannic acid ointment or compound copper sulfate zinc ointment to prevent red buttocks.
Children with diarrhea will develop oral mold and thrush due to long-term use of antibiotics, so they should feed more boiled water to clean their mouths. When vomiting, cotton can be dipped in warm boiled water to clean the mouth. If thrush has occurred, 1% gentian violet liquid can be applied to the affected area.
Severe diarrhea, or mild diarrhea but persistent, children gradually lose weight, systemic symptoms worsen, should go to the hospital in time.
If diarrhea is not cured and complications such as pneumonia or urinary tract infection occur, you should also see a doctor in time.
Health and nursing
Infants' clothes should increase or decrease with the temperature rise and fall to avoid overheating, and sleep at night to avoid catching cold in the abdomen. Feed more water in summer, and avoid overeating or eating useful and fatty foods. Always take a hot bath.
Strengthen the care of weak children: malnutrition, rickets and weak children after illness should strengthen nursing, pay attention to food hygiene and avoid various infections. Mild diarrhea should be treated in time to avoid delay into severe diarrhea.
Avoid cross infection: infectious diarrhea is easy to cause epidemic, so newborns, nurseries and hospitals should pay attention to disinfection and isolation. It is found that children with diarrhea and carriers should be treated separately and their feces should be disinfected.
Rational use of antibiotics: avoid long-term abuse of prescription antibiotics, so as to avoid imbalance of intestinal flora, leading to the proliferation of drug-resistant bacteria and enteritis.
If you pull it less than four times a day, you can only eat Mommy Love, and put it in milk below 40 degrees, once a generation, once every 24 hours, or once a generation and a half, 12 hours, but the remaining half generation should be thrown away, because it contains probiotics, which will be ineffective for a long time. The same is true if you add Smecta to your mommy's love more than four times a day. In order to prevent children from drinking less milk and affecting the efficacy, you can first put the medicine into a small amount of milk for your baby to eat, and then drink milk without medicine after eating. In addition, it is best to have a stool examination to see if there is a bacterial infection. If so, you should also take anti-inflammatory drugs, pay attention to the number of times you pull, and replenish water to your baby in time to prevent dehydration.
Diarrhea in children is a group of common pediatric diseases caused by a variety of pathogens and factors, characterized by increased stool frequency and changes in stool characteristics. It is common in infants from 6 months to 2 years old and can occur all year round, but it is most common in summer and autumn. It can be divided into infectious type and non-infectious type.
Non-infectious diarrhea in children is mainly caused by improper feeding, such as eating too much, eating too little, overheating, supercooling, and suddenly changing food varieties. It can also be caused by food allergy, climate change and intestinal disaccharidase deficiency. Infectious diarrhea can be caused by virus (rotavirus), which can easily cause the loss of water and electrolyte in the baby's body. If it is not replenished in time, it will easily lead to dehydration shock and even circulatory failure, which may be dangerous. Therefore, parents should promptly supplement their children with various electrolytes and oral rehydration salts of glucose.
Simple preparation method—
1, 500 ml of rice soup; Add salt1.75g. ..
2. Add10g sucrose or glucose (2 teaspoons) to 500ml boiled water and1.75g salt.
When the baby has diarrhea, but the urine volume is normal, and there are no dehydration symptoms such as dry mouth, give the child a homemade sugar and salt solution, which should be equal to the stool volume. When the amount of stool is uncertain, it can be taken orally within 4 hours according to the weight of 20 ~ 40 ml/kg, and then at any time. Give sugar and salt water to babies under two years old. You can feed 1 teaspoon, about 5 ml, every 1 ~ 2 minutes. Older children can drink directly from cups. If the child vomits, pause, then feed slowly every 10 minute, and feed every 2 ~ 3 minutes 1 spoon. Once the diarrhea stops, you must stop taking it immediately.
Learn more about diarrhea
Viruses are the most common), bacteria, fungi and parasites infect the intestine. The peak of rotavirus diarrhea is from 10 to February of the following year. Rotavirus is easy to break out in dry and cold seasons. Infants from 6 months to 2 years old are prone to rotavirus infection and diarrhea because their local immunity and intestinal digestive system are not fully developed. Rotavirus diarrhea is self-limited, and the course of disease is generally 5- 10 days. If most children are taken care of properly, there will be no problems after recovery.
The principle of nutritional treatment for infantile diarrhea is to adjust the diet and stop eating high-fat and indigestible foods, so as to reduce the gastrointestinal burden and gradually restore digestive function. Therefore, infants with diarrhea should drink skim milk. It can not only supplement high-quality protein for infants, but also prevent intestinal slippery caused by excessive fat intake, which is beneficial to supplementing nutrition and easy for infants to digest and absorb.
So, how to prepare skim milk at home? The way of breast-feeding is very simple, that is, to shorten the time of each breast-feeding and let the child eat the first bite of 1/2-2/3 milk. Because the first half of breast milk mainly contains substances such as protein; The second half of breast milk mainly contains substances such as fat, which is not easy to digest and can be squeezed out.
If it is artificially fed, the prepared infant milk powder can be put in the refrigerator for 6 hours, the fat layer condensed on it can be removed, the remaining milk can be boiled, and the floating film can be removed for 2-3 times, so as to achieve the purpose of semi-degreasing. Babies with frequent diarrhea can also be diluted with boiling water before feeding.
Infants who are exclusively breastfed have yellow or golden yellow stools, uniform consistency such as paste or paste, and occasionally thin and slightly green, sour but not smelly, and defecate twice or four times a day.
Artificial feeding of babies, the stool is light yellow or light gray, dry and hard, strip-shaped, often with milk flaps, with obvious odor, stool 1~2 times a day.
If you usually have only 1~2 stools every day and suddenly increase to 5~6 stools, you should consider whether you are sick. If you usually have a lot of stool, but the children are generally in good condition and don't lose weight, then you can't think that you are sick.
During diarrhea, taking Mamiai or Synbiotics Children Probiotic Granules can also shorten the course of diarrhea.
Both Mamiai and Synbiotics are beneficial bacteria, which regulate the gastrointestinal system, prevent diarrhea from being diluted and prevent constipation from being dry. Mommy loves moderate prices, while synbiotics are expensive.
By observing the characteristics of baby's stool, we can understand its digestion.
If the baby's stool smells obvious, it means that protein has indigestion. At this time, the amount of milk should be reduced or diluted appropriately. If there are many bubbles in the stool, it means that carbohydrates are indigestion, so we must reduce or even stop feeding starchy foods. If the stool looks like cream, it means that the fat is indigestion and the intake of oily food should be reduced.
Nursing care of children with diarrhea
◆ Non-breast milk foods should be easy to digest and conform to children's tastes.
Don't choose foods that take a long time to digest. Choose starch-based foods such as rice porridge or vegetable porridge and soften them. But if the baby doesn't want to eat, don't force it. There is nothing wrong with children not eating non-breast milk food for a while.
If the breast-fed child has diarrhea, don't wean easily. At this time, you can shorten the time of feeding each time and let the child finish the first half of the milk. Because the first half of breast milk is rich in protein, it is easy to digest and nutritious, and the second half is rich in fat and difficult to digest. When necessary, the mother can drink a large glass of light salt water half an hour to an hour before breastfeeding, dilute the milk, and then breastfeed the child.
◆ Replenish water with children's favorite drinks.
When diarrhea loses water, it is very important to replenish water. You can find more drinks that children like to drink, such as boiled water, fruit juice and vegetable juice. When diarrhea is severe and accompanied by vomiting, you should replenish more water.
◆ When diarrhea returns to normal, it is also necessary to slowly increase the amount of non-breast milk food.
After persistent severe diarrhea, although diarrhea has stopped, it will take some time for digestive function to return to normal, and the original non-breast milk food cannot be restored immediately. You should feed sticky food at the beginning of adding complementary food, and then slowly recover in a few days. At the same time, it is necessary to continue to take Synbiotics Children's Probiotic Granules for a period of time until the baby's intestines are fully recovered.
◆ Change diapers frequently.
Diarrhea sometimes causes a rash, so it's best to change diapers frequently.
Food antidiarrheal
The following foods can not only provide the necessary nutrition for the baby, but also have a certain antidiarrheal effect.
1, paste rice soup: grind rice flour or whipped cream into powder, fry until brown, then add water and appropriate amount of sugar, and boil it into a thin paste. Pepper rice soup is easy to digest, and its carbonized structure also has good absorption and antidiarrheal effects, so it is the first choice food for infantile diarrhea.
2. Carrot soup: Carrot is an alkaline food containing pectin, which can shape stool and adsorb pathogenic bacteria and toxins in the intestine. It is a good antidiarrheal food. The preparation method of carrot soup is as follow: cleaning carrot, cut off stalks, cut into small pieces, boiling with wat, filtering with gauze to remove residues, decocting with water (according to the ratio of 500g carrot+1000 ml water), and finally boiling with sugar. 2~3 times a day, each time 100~ 150 ml, stop using after the diarrhea improves.
3, apple puree: Apple is also an alkaline food, containing pectin and tannic acid, which has the functions of adsorption, convergence and diarrhea. Take a fresh, soft apple, cut it in half and scrape it into mud with a spoon.
Possible causes of green stool in infants
Generally, the stool of breast-fed children is acidic, and the normal stool is slightly green, sometimes mixed with some white particles.
If the baby fed milk powder excretes green stool, it means that the intestinal peristalsis is accelerated or there is inflammation in the intestine, which is a symbol of diarrhea. Some parents think that children are frightened by green shit, which is wrong.
In addition, for the baby's health, it is necessary to take enough iron and give the baby iron-containing milk powder. If the iron in the milk powder cannot be completely absorbed, the stool will be yellow-green, and the white particles in the stool will be large, which will easily stink.
The baby has diarrhea. What mothers have to do.
1 replenish body water in time.
Diarrhea will appear mild dehydration at the beginning, so the focus of nursing is to replenish the lost water to the baby first. Mommy can choose any of the following rehydration methods:
● Self-made sugar salt water. Add10g of glucose or sugar and 2-5g of salt to 500ml of boiled water. According to the proportion of 20-40ml/kg body weight, it is taken orally within 4 hours. Take the rest at any time.
● Salt rice soup. Add 2 grams of salt to 500 ml of rice soup and let the baby drink it as boiling water.
● Take a new formula of oral rehydration salts (ORS): sodium chloride 3.5g, sodium bicarbonate 2.5g, potassium chloride 1.5g and anhydrous glucose 20g, and add water to 1000ml.
Tip 2: Don't use drugs indiscriminately to ensure your baby's safety.
At present, the commonly used drugs for treating infantile diarrhea are:
1, smecta, montmorillonite powder, has the function of strengthening and repairing the barrier of digestive tract mucosa, can fix and remove various viruses, bacteria and their toxins, and is suitable for all kinds of diarrhea.
2. Microecological regulators, such as Bifidobacterium preparation, can regulate the stability of intestinal internal environment, protect intestinal beneficial bacteria, and be beneficial to the treatment of diarrhea.
3. Ding Guier's navel patch (original name: Bao Yi Tie Ling), a pure Chinese medicine patch for external use to treat infantile diarrhea, is simple, effective and has no side effects.
These three medicines can also be used as standing medicines in the small family medicine box.
Tip 3: Diet conditioning helps your baby.
Once the baby has loose bowels, some mothers will control their diet for fear of aggravating their illness. In fact, on the contrary, babies with diarrhea need nutritious food to prevent malnutrition after diarrhea. Breastfed babies can continue to breastfeed, while artificially fed babies can still be given the conventional feeding method, "eat whatever they should" and leave nothing. What needs the mother's attention is that the baby's gastrointestinal function is still in the recovery period. Therefore, eating should follow the principle of eating less and eating more, from less to more, from thin to thick.
Tip 4: A warm abdomen is very important.
In addition to adjusting the diet, we should also pay attention to the warmth of the baby's abdomen. In autumn, the climate gradually turns cold, and the baby's intestinal peristalsis has already been accelerated by virus invasion. If the abdomen catches cold again, the intestinal peristalsis will be faster and diarrhea will be aggravated. Mothers can use hot water bottles to press the baby's abdomen, and they can also help the baby rub his stomach to relieve the pain.
Tip 5: protect your baby's little PP
Mommy should be careful of diaper rash during diarrhea. Because the frequency of baby defecation increases, the skin and mucosa around the anus are damaged. After each defecation, wash it with warm water and then apply some oily ointment. Baby should change diapers in time to avoid diapers soaked in feces and urine rubbing against the skin and breaking. Prevent diaper rash and secondary infection.
Complete guide to infantile diarrhea
Due to different defecation habits, the number of defecations per baby will be different every day. Clinically, it is normal for babies born within 6 months to defecate within 6 or 7 times a day, and it is normal for babies born within 6- 12 months to defecate about 2 or 3 times a day. In addition, because of heredity, personality, physique, diet and other factors, the baby will have different defecation characteristics, but as long as he can maintain a fixed defecation habit every day and there is no special abnormality, there is no need to worry too much.
1, analysis of baby diarrhea
If the frequency of baby's defecation increases and the color and character of stool have changed greatly, then mothers should pay attention. According to the clinical manifestations, the baby's diarrhea can be divided into mild diarrhea and severe diarrhea.
Mild diarrhea:
Baby's stool is about 3 ~ 10 times a day, yellow or green, thin paste or egg drop soup, with white or yellow-white nipples or foam, sour taste and occasional nausea and vomiting. The baby is in good mental state, with slight weight loss, normal body temperature, occasional low fever and no obvious dehydration symptoms. Most of these cases are non-bacterial diarrhea caused by improper diet, indigestion or catching cold.
Fecal analysis:
The baby's digestive system is not yet mature, and the regulation function of the nervous system is not perfect. When the artificially fed baby adds complementary food too quickly, changes the diet type or suddenly changes milk beyond the digestive tract's capacity, it will increase the burden on the digestive tract, cause digestive dysfunction and lead to diarrhea. It may also be caused by climate change or improper care.
Poop reaction, teach you 6 tricks:
1) Breastfeeding or formula milk powder with prebiotics close to the combined proportion in breast milk. Usually, breast-fed babies defecate smoothly, which may be as many as 6~8 times a day. Defecation is often soft, mostly sparse and shapeless, slightly sour. Studies have shown that the fecal characteristics of infants fed Dumex with international patent prebiotic combination are very close to those of breast-fed infants.
2) Feed regularly and quantitatively. Gradually add complementary foods on time, but it is not advisable to add starch or fatty foods too early or suddenly change the types of complementary foods. You can add some apple juice and carrot water to your baby to achieve the purpose of astringent excess water in the intestine.
3) the process of milk transfer should be gradual, and it is forbidden to make a quick decision. It usually takes 2 weeks to transfer milk. The first milk transfer should start with the number of meals in the middle of each day, and then increase the number of meals every few days until it is completely converted into new milk powder. Considering the baby's different physique, the steps of milk transfer can also be adjusted according to people's needs.
4) Pay attention to climate change, increase or decrease clothes in time, and keep your abdomen warm. After each defecation, wash your baby's anus with warm water, change diapers frequently, dispose of feces in time and wash your hands for disinfection to avoid repeated infection. At the same time, strengthen physical exercise to prevent colds, pneumonia, otitis media and other diseases.
5) If something happens in the process of changing breast milk to formula milk powder, we should pay attention to observe the stool of infants fed formula milk powder, which is generally pasty or strip-shaped soft stool with yellow or green color. Generally speaking, every baby's bowel movements are different. As long as the baby's diet and daily life are normal and his growth and development have been very good, parents don't have to worry too much about the number, shape and color of the baby's defecation.
6) Once watery stool occurs, beware of rotavirus diarrhea, also known as autumn diarrhea, which is an infectious enteritis that occurs in autumn. Most children get sick after being infected with rotavirus. The disease is self-limited and lasts for 3-8 days. The main treatment methods are fluid replacement, antivirus and symptomatic treatment.
7) When eating too much starch or sugar food, the food in the intestinal cavity can be fermented, resulting in dark brown watery stool with foam. Parents can adjust their baby's diet appropriately and reduce the intake of starch or sugar food.
Most of the above situations are manifestations of mild non-bacterial infectious diarrhea. Moms, don't worry too much. As long as the reason is found according to the baby's actual situation, the baby will recover naturally within 2-3 weeks through reasonable adjustment of diet, proper nursing and good adjustment.