Symptoms of infantile diarrhea
Infantile diarrhea mainly occurs in infants under 2 years old. Newborns generally defecate 2-5 times a day, and some babies defecate 7-8 times a day. Compared with artificial feeding, breast-fed babies defecate more often. With the growth of the baby's age, the frequency of defecation will gradually decrease, and after 2-3 months, the frequency of defecation will be reduced to 1-2 times a day. Parents need to know the baby's normal defecation habits in order to judge whether he has diarrhea at the first time.
Parents should pay attention not only to the frequency of defecation, but also to the shape of defecation. If the defecation frequency is more than usual, the texture is thinner than usual, and even watery stools appear, like spouting from the ass. These may be the symptoms of infantile diarrhea, usually accompanied by gastrointestinal discomfort such as dislike of eating and flatulence.
Symptoms of infantile diarrhea:
1, mild diarrhea: stool 5-6 times a day, even as many as 10 times, stool is egg-shaped or watery, yellow or yellow-green, with white patches, low-grade galactorrhea, mental diet is still good or slightly reduced, weight is not increased or slightly reduced, and there is no dehydration.
2, moderate diarrhea: stool 10 times a day, watery stool, sour and smelly, may have moderate fever.
3. Severe diarrhea: stool 10 times a day, watery stool, yellow, vomiting, fever, scanty urine, poor appetite, weight loss, rapid dehydration and acidosis, hypokalemia, calcium and magnesium, etc.
4. Some infants may have obvious dehydration, acidosis and electrolyte disorder, such as low potassium or magnesium.
What should the baby do with loose bowels?
1, general therapy:
If the baby is breastfeeding under 6 months, it needs to continue breastfeeding; If you are not breast-feeding, you can continue to feed with the milk or dairy products that your baby eats every day. Babies with mild symptoms can appropriately reduce their milk intake. If the baby is more than 6 months old, or has started to eat solid food, you can give the baby some light liquid food such as rice porridge, or add some vegetables or minced meat.
(1) Some fresh fruit juice or banana puree can be supplemented with potassium.
(2) Feeding fresh food should be cooked, ground or mashed.
(3) Encourage your baby to eat more, eat less and eat more meals.
(4) After the diarrhea stops, continue to feed the baby the above food, and add meals at least once a day after the diarrhea stops for two weeks until the weight returns to normal.
However, if the baby has severe diarrhea, it is necessary to fast for 8-24 hours and replenish water intravenously.
2, liquid therapy:
(1) Oral method: suitable for babies with mild dehydration or vomiting. The liquid supplement amount is calculated as 100 ml/day/kg body weight, and calculated as a fraction.
(2) Intravenous rehydration: used for children with moderate and hypertonic dehydration.
3, drug therapy:
If children's diarrhea has not improved for 3 days or the following symptoms appear, they should take the sick children to see a doctor in time:
(1) Multiple water samples.
(2) frequent vomiting.
(3) obvious thirst.
(4) can't eat normally.
(5) fever.
(6) blood in the stool.
4, symptomatic treatment, control infection: according to the cause, choose antibacterial drugs.
5, treatment remedies:
Carrot paste: take a proper amount of fresh carrots, wash and chop them, add water to boil, then take them out and mash them into paste (the water for cooking carrots is reserved for later use). When eating, add 5- 10g (about a spoonful) of carrot paste to every 100ml 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, it can be formed by feeding carrot paste for 2 to 3 days.
6, protect delicate skin: diapers must be changed frequently, but also wash your ass with water and blot it with a clean cloth.
7. Appropriate increase or decrease of clothes: The clothes of infants and young children should increase or decrease with the rise and fall of temperature to avoid overheating, and sleep at night to avoid abdominal cold. Feed more water in summer, and avoid overeating or eating useful and fatty foods. Always take a hot bath.
Does the baby have diarrhea to stop diarrhea immediately? Can the baby have loose bowels be vaccinated?
It is best not to vaccinate your baby during diarrhea. Because the premise of vaccination is that the child is healthy, it can be vaccinated, otherwise it will easily aggravate the condition. In addition, the reaction results after the reaction are not easy to distinguish, and it is not too late to vaccinate again.
If the baby has no other diseases in diarrhea, then the oral vaccine similar to rotavirus should be injected after the baby has recovered from diarrhea. This is because it is excreted immediately after oral administration, and its effect on the body is too small, which is equivalent to ineffectiveness or even ineffectiveness. Then it depends on whether the child has short-term diarrhea or long-term diarrhea. Doctors generally recommend that children be vaccinated after recovery. Now he advocates timely vaccination, but does not advocate vaccination only when you are sick.
However, in some special circumstances, such as the epidemic of a serious infectious disease, which has seriously threatened people's health, it is necessary to consider that the harm of infectious diseases is primary and the response to vaccination is secondary. The vaccination regulations should be relaxed appropriately, but this should be decided by doctors, not by parents themselves. Therefore, if the baby has diarrhea, parents should vaccinate their children and must communicate with the doctor before making a decision.
Can the baby have diarrhea and eat eggs?
Babies with diarrhea are generally not recommended to eat eggs. Eating eggs during the baby's diarrhea will not only nourish the body, but will aggravate the condition. This is mainly because eggs contain a lot of high-protein substances, and the gastrointestinal function is weakened when the baby has diarrhea, which is difficult to digest.
Eggs should not be eaten during diarrhea. If you must eat, you can choose some egg yolks. In fact, the most scientific dietary principle is to eat some liquid foods, such as thick rice soup, thin lotus root starch, almond paste, deoiled broth, filtered juice and so on.
Can baby have loose bowels eat milk powder?
Baby can still eat milk powder for diarrhea. During diarrhea, although the digestive tract function is reduced, it can still digest and absorb some nutrients. Therefore, it is not necessary for the baby to fast during diarrhea, but it is necessary to reduce the amount of milk powder and add more water to the milk.
The premise that the baby with diarrhea can continue to eat milk powder here is that the baby has always had the habit of drinking milk powder before diarrhea. If the baby is used to drinking breast milk, there is no need to switch and continue to let the baby drink breast milk. However, if the baby has severe diarrhea, it is recommended that mothers give the baby diarrhea milk powder. In addition, the amount of milk powder given to the baby should be reduced by about 1/3. If the baby doesn't have enough to eat, you can give the baby some rice porridge soup, but you can't eat juice and the like.
Etiology of infantile diarrhea
1, physical factors
This disease mainly occurs in infants, and its inherent characteristics are:
(1) The gastrointestinal tract is immature and its enzyme activity is low, but its nutritional requirements are relatively high and its burden is heavy.
(2) It is easy to suffer from rickets and malnutrition, and it is easy to cause digestive dysfunction.
(3) The nervous system, endocrine system, circulatory system, liver and kidney functions are immature, and the regulatory function is poor.
(4) The proportion of extracellular fluid is high, the water metabolism is vigorous, and the regulation function is poor, which is easy to cause the disorder of body fluids and electrolytes.
(5) Immune function is not perfect and it is easy to be infected.
2. Infection factors
(1) digestive tract infection:
It is easy to happen in artificially fed babies.
Infection route:
Pathogenic microorganisms enter children's digestive tract with contaminated food or water.
The virus is infected through respiratory tract or water source.
Contact with adult carriers (viruses).
(2) Extradigestive tract infection:
It is common in otitis media, pharyngitis, pneumonia, urinary tract infection and skin infection, and the younger the patient is, the more common it is.
Causes of diarrhea:
(1) Parenteral infection causes digestive dysfunction.
(2) Infected by the same pathogen (mainly virus) inside and outside the intestine.
3. Intestinal flora imbalance caused by abuse of antibiotics:
Long-term application of broad-spectrum antibiotics directly stimulates the intestine or stimulates autonomic nerves, which leads to increased intestinal peristalsis, decreased glucose absorption, decreased disaccharidase activity and diarrhea, and even leads to intestinal flora imbalance.
4, digestive dysfunction
(1) dietary factors;
(2) intolerance to carbohydrates;
(3) food allergy;
(4) drug action;
(5) Other factors: such as unclean environment, too little outdoor activities, sudden change of life rules, sudden change of external climate, etc.