Children’s gastroenteritis needs life intervention and drug treatment.
1. Life intervention: children with gastroenteritis should stop all medications or foods that damage the gastric mucosa, eat a light diet of easily digestible congee and pasta, avoid cold, spicy and stimulating diets, and fasting for children with severe vomiting. In addition, you can also drink a moderate amount of warm salt water to prevent dehydration and electrolyte disorders, while encouraging children to get more rest and sleep to enhance the body’s immunity.
2. Drug treatment: children’s gastroenteritis has many causes, the doctor will choose the targeted drugs according to the cause of the disease, commonly used drugs are anti-infective drugs (such as cefixime, etc.), gastric mucosal protective agent (such as montelukast), intestinal probiotics (such as bifidobacteria, Saccharomyces boulardii), etc., these drugs may have a certain adverse reaction, need to be under the guidance of the doctor to use the drug.
In general, children with mild gastroenteritis can be adjusted through life interventions, while the child’s status needs to be closely monitored. If symptoms such as severe diarrhea, vomiting, high fever, irritability and lethargy occur, the child should be taken to the hospital promptly to avoid serious complications due to delayed treatment.