Do babies get diarrhea when they’re scared?

Babies may have diarrhea due to shock, mental stimulation can cause diarrhea, but diarrhea in babies can also be due to food stimulation and disease factors, etc. It can be treated by general measures and oral medicines. 1. Mental stimulation: when the baby is suddenly subjected to intense mental stimulation, such as shock, it can lead to increased sympathetic excitability, which in turn causes autonomic dysfunction and may cause intestinal spasms, leading to diarrhea. 2. Food stimulation: If the baby eats a lot of greasy, spicy, cold and irritating food, it may stimulate the gastrointestinal tract to speed up the peristalsis, resulting in diarrhea. After adjusting the diet, it can be relieved. 3. Disease factors: when the baby is infected by viruses, bacteria and other pathogens and produce enteritis, the intestinal mucosa is stimulated by inflammation, there will also be diarrhea. If the bacterial infection, according to the drug allergy oral antibacterial drugs such as cefixime; such as viral infections, self-limiting, can not be special treatment. Severe diarrhea can be oral montelukast to stop diarrhea. There are many causes of diarrhea in babies, so you need to take your baby to the hospital to find out the cause and get standardized treatment from the doctor. The above medicines should be used according to the doctor’s prescription.