Diarrhea can be divided into two categories: infectious diarrhea and functional diarrhea. Summer diarrhea is mostly thought to be infectious diarrhea, which is caused by various pathogens such as bacteria, viruses and parasites, and is a group of acute intestinal infectious diseases with diarrhea as the main symptom. What are the causes of summer diarrhea? If the meat, eggs, dairy and aquatic products in our daily diet are contaminated by these pathogens, and if they are not cooked and steamed thoroughly when consumed, symptoms such as diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal pain, shortness of breath and fever will appear to varying degrees. In the case of Vibrio cholerae, severe vomiting, painless diarrhea, dehydration, coma and other symptoms may occur. Similarly, humans infected with rotavirus, norovirus, influenza virus and other viruses through food or other means can also develop symptoms such as diarrhea and fever. Children in particular are more likely to develop viral diarrhea. How to prevent summer diarrhea? Once you have diarrhea and vomiting symptoms, first of all, you should go to the hospital’s intestinal clinic in time to get timely and correct treatment and handling; if you cannot go to the hospital in time, you should take oral rehydration salts at home in time to avoid dehydration, and children with diarrhea should pay more attention to replenishing water; one point to pay special attention to after diarrhea occurs is that you must continue to eat, the so-called starvation therapy after diarrhea is not scientific, because diarrhea causes the body Because diarrhea causes the body to lose nutrients, it is necessary to replenish nutrients in time.