The main symptoms of baby diarrhea are:
1, mild diarrhea: stool 5-6 times a day, even as many as 10. The stool is egg-shaped or watery, yellow or yellow-green, with small white patches, low fever and milk overflow. The mental diet is still good or slightly reduced, the weight does not increase or decrease slightly, and there is no dehydration.
2, moderate diarrhea: stool 10 times a day, watery stool, sour and smelly, may have a moderate fever.
3, severe diarrhea: stool 10 times or more every day, watery stool, yellow, vomiting, fever, less urine, poor appetite, weight loss, rapid dehydration and acidosis, hypokalemia, calcium, magnesium and so on.
4. Some babies 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 under 6 months old, it is breastfeeding and needs to continue breastfeeding; If it is not breast-feeding, you can continue to feed with the milk or dairy products that your baby eats every day, and the baby with mild symptoms can reduce the milk intake appropriately. If the baby is over 6 months old or has started to eat solid food, give some rice porridge or other starch mixed food. Families with conditions can add some vegetables, fish or minced meat, and add some vegetable oil every time they feed.
(1) You can give some fresh fruit juice or banana puree to supplement potassium.
(2) Feed fresh food, which should be cooked, ground or mashed well.
(3) Encourage your baby to eat at least 6 times a day.
(4) After the diarrhea stops, continue to feed the baby the above food, and add meals at least once a day for two weeks after the diarrhea stops until the weight returns to normal.
However, if the baby has severe diarrhea, it is necessary to fast for 8-24 hours and rehydrate intravenously.
2, liquid therapy:
(1) Oral method: suitable for' baby' with mild dehydration or mild vomiting. The fluid replacement is calculated according to the weight per kilogram 100 ml/day, and taken in fractions.
(2) Intravenous rehydration method: used for children in moderate and hypertonic dehydration.
3, drug treatment: if the child's diarrhea does not improve for 3 days or the following symptoms appear, the sick child will go to the doctor:
(1) Many times.
(2) Frequent vomiting.
(3) obvious thirst.
(4) can't eat normally.
(5) fever.
(6) Blood in the stool.
4, control infection: according to the cause, choose antibacterial drugs.
5, symptomatic treatment: diarrhea can be taken orally 1 time bismuth carbonate or light acid protein 0.3 grams, three times a day; To help digestion, you can take orally pepsin mixture (L ml) every year, three times a day, or multi-enzyme tablets (L tablets once, three times a day). Symptomatic treatment according to the condition.
6, treatment remedies: take a proper amount of fresh carrots, wash and chop, add water to boil, and then take out carrots and mash them into a paste (the water for cooking carrots is reserved for use).
When eating, add 5- 10 g (about a spoonful) of carrot paste to every 100 ml of boiled carrot water. The food intake is mainly based on the baby's appetite and can be fed according to the usual food intake. Generally speaking, after feeding carrot paste for 2 to 3 days, the stool can be formed.
7. Protect delicate skin: diapers must be changed frequently, and it is necessary to clean the buttocks with water and suck them dry.
8. Appropriate increase or decrease in clothing: The clothing 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. Water should be fed more in summer to avoid overeating or eating foods with more useful fat. Always take a warm bath.