What parents can do during the high incidence of fall diarrhea

Fall is in full swing and it’s time for fall diarrhea to run rampant. Autumn diarrhea is a kind of infant viral enteritis, because this virus looks like a wheel, so also known as rotavirus, mostly in infants and young children from 6 months to 2 years old. The main manifestations of rotavirus infection in babies are: fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and sometimes fever and vomiting occur before diarrhea, which can be easily misdiagnosed as a whistleblower infection. Viral enteritis typical stool characteristics is a lot of water in the stool, watery stool or eggdrop soup-like stool, diarrhea up to more than 10 times a day, so it is easy to cause dehydration. Parents to deal with autumn diarrhea, to do the following seven points 1, the vast majority of autumn diarrhea is a viral infection, and there is no specific treatment, usually 7-10 days will be gradually cured. The main response is symptomatic treatment, prevention of dehydration, dietary care. Therefore, parents should not blindly use antibiotics to treat their babies in a hurry because their children are sick. Antibiotics are not only unhelpful, but will also destroy the baby’s intestinal flora, resulting in diarrhea aggravation or prolongation of the disease. 2, home always have oral rehydration salts. Currently there are oral rehydration salts (III), baby diarrhea, according to the instructions of the water, every time after the bowel movement as far as possible to let the baby drink, to ensure that the baby does not get dehydrated. 3, you can give the baby to take montelukast, probiotics. 4, timely zinc supplement. The World Health Organization (WHO) on the treatment of diarrhea disease recommended that a diarrhea on the zinc supplement, can reduce the duration and severity of diarrhea and the risk of dehydration. Continuous zinc supplementation for 10 to 14 days can completely replenish the zinc lost during diarrhea, and reduce the risk of diarrhea in children within 2 to 3 months again. 5. Isolate feces. Since viral enteritis can be transmitted in many ways, excreta and diapers should be isolated and disposed of in a timely and aseptic manner; the place where diapers are changed needs to be separated from the dietary area. 6, diarrhea does not need to fast, give the baby light, soft, easy to digest food. Do not give the baby to drink fruit juice. 7, if the baby can not eat and water; mental response is not good; 4-6 hours without urine; high fever does not go down; severe vomiting; severe abdominal pain or difficult to appease the crying, should go to the doctor in time. Correctly prevent fall diarrhea need to do the right four things 1, adhere to the hand washing Both adults and children should wash their hands diligently, especially from the outside back, so as to avoid infection and spread of viruses. A survey showed that good hand hygiene habits can reduce the incidence of diarrhea by 47%. Moms and dads must teach their children the correct way to wash their hands, and the hand washing time should be more than 15 seconds. If there are infected children or adults around or at home, it is recommended to drink boiled water as much as possible and not to let the water be contaminated. 3. Don’t contact sick children Doing a full isolation program and reducing contact with carriers or patients is also an important way to prevent infection. NICE guidelines recommend that children who have been infected with viral enteritis should be isolated throughout the course of the illness and should not go to nursery or school until they have stopped vomiting or diarrhea for at least 48 hours. 4. Vaccination is an effective way of protecting children against rotavirus enteritis. A 14-year research study in the United States showed that after vaccination, the incidence of rotavirus enteritis dropped from 43.1% to 10.9% to 27.3%.