Pediatric diarrhea is a common disease Diarrhea is the most common disease in children under the age of 8. When children vomit and have diarrhea, hospitals are overcrowded with pediatricians and parents are inevitably overwhelmed. Here is a brief description of what to do after pediatric diarrhea, which I hope will be helpful. Diarrhea does not only occur in the fall and winter, but can occur all year round. Because the immune function of children is not fully developed, the immune capacity of the gastrointestinal tract is low, and the gastrointestinal regulation is poor, they are especially prone to diarrhea. Pediatric diarrhea is divided into non-infectious and infectious. In addition to bacterial infections, infectious diarrhea also includes viral infections and (bacterial) toxin infections. To identify whether it is a bacterial infection, the main thing to look for is the presence of pus and blood in the stool. Non-infectious diarrhea is a “self-limiting” disease, which can heal itself within 3-5 days. Precautions 1. Prevent dehydration Children’s bodies are not well developed and do not have a good balance, so they are especially prone to dehydration due to frequent diarrhea. Once dehydration occurs, it is more serious than the diarrhea itself. Severe and persistent diarrhea can lead to loss of water in the body. The following two charts can help parents determine dehydration in children, and moderate to severe dehydration should be treated immediately with fluids and rehydration at the hospital. Oral rehydration salt treatment is preferred for mild to moderate dehydration For babies with mild to moderate dehydration, the preferred treatment is rehydration, and the preferred form of rehydration, is oral rehydration salt. (Attachment: The signs of mild to moderate dehydration include dry mouth, dry and cracked lips, less urine, or dark yellow color of urine, poor skin elasticity, less tears when crying, etc.) Oral rehydration salts can effectively prevent your baby from becoming dehydrated and prevent him/her from being sent to the hospital for infusion due to severe dehydration. 2, do not blindly stop diarrhea From the perspective of the body’s defense against germs, diarrhea itself is conducive to the removal of irritants or toxic substances from the intestinal tract, so it is not advisable to blindly stop diarrhea at the beginning of the disease, otherwise it is equivalent to leaving germs or toxins in the body for a longer period of time. Parents should not casually give children the use of antibiotics, if it is a viral infection, the use of antibiotics will not work, only when the bacterial infection is more clear to use, the indiscriminate use of antibiotics easily illuminated into the pediatric intestinal flora dysbiosis diarrhea more difficult to improve. 3, during diarrhea, no need to fasting baby diarrhea, in the end is to eat, or not to eat, which is a major problem for parents. In the past, there is a view that fasting, that diarrhea should not eat or drink, so that diarrhea will be reduced. Because the more you eat and drink, the more frequent the diarrhea will be. The current view advocates that the baby should continue the original diet during diarrhea, but do not eat new foods or raw and cold foods, and do not force food. But the acute watery diarrhea period, defecation, vomiting heavy, when the intestinal tract is seriously edematous, peristalsis is intense, the intestinal tract “load” heavy, must fast for a few hours. 4, adjust the intestinal balance during the recovery of diarrhea can be supplemented with “probiotics”. Yogurt contains a lot of active lactobacilli and bifidobacteria and other “probiotics” that can colonize and multiply in the intestinal tract, which helps restore the normal gastrointestinal tract “micro-ecological environment” and helps the recovery of bloating and diarrhea. In severe bacterial diarrhea, after a few days of treatment with antibiotics, microecological preparations are used to consolidate the efficacy, avoid using hot water and antibiotics together.