The climate is changing and babies are weak, so if they are not well taken care of, they will easily develop diarrhea. Many new parents are very nervous and overwhelmed when their babies have diarrhea, and they are often overwhelmed by the care of their babies. So why are babies prone to diarrhea in spring? What should parents do when their baby has diarrhea?
Many children have been experiencing diarrhea recently due to the change in weather conditions.
Nowadays, pediatric diarrhea is more common. In the past, we thought that the rotavirus appeared in the fall, that is, autumn diarrhea, but now we find that this rotavirus is also present in the spring, but its prevalence is not as strong as in the fall. The children’s gastrointestinal tract sometimes does not adapt well, and sometimes they do not eat too much because it is warmer, and sometimes they drink a lot of drinks and yogurt, so they are also prone to diarrhea.
Many parents are particularly nervous when they find that their child has diarrhea, so how can they tell if their child has diarrhea?
When children come to us with diarrhea, we ask the parents how many times a day they have diarrhea, and generally diagnose them as diarrhea only if they have more than three times a day, because some children normally have two or three times, especially small babies, and their stools are formed.
Generally speaking, if parents are not sure, they should come to the hospital more than three times, and if it is five times, they must come to the hospital. If his stools are formed, there is no need to be nervous, maybe he ate too much, poor digestion; if he is pulling watery stools, pulling all the water, you must come to the hospital for fear of dehydration; in addition, if he is pulling pus and blood, then you must come to the hospital to see what the nature of the test is. What is its nature, is it a virus or bacteria? If the stools are fat globules, it is usually a viral infection, and if the white blood cells and red blood cells are high, these are bacterial infections.
If the number of stools is more than 3 times and the nature of the stool has pus and blood, it is necessary to come to the hospital for consultation.
Many parents may have the question, after a child has diarrhea, in what case is it observed at home and in what case is it necessary to go to the hospital to take medicine?
Parents of children with diarrhea do not need to be nervous. If the child has diarrhea only once or twice or three or four times and the water is not too much, the child can be observed at home for one or two times by changing his diet to a lighter one and drinking some white porridge for observation.
What is dehydration? The child is always thirsty for water, in addition to his urine is less, not much urine, once the child comes to the hospital, we look at the child crying, if crying without tears, it is definitely dehydration, and then a look at his urine less a lot, half a day no urine, that urine is less, this definitely need to give him oral medication, we now have oral rehydration salt, if the child’s spirit is poor, and more days of diarrhea, there are three days If the child is poor in spirit, and has more days of diarrhea, more than three days, more than five times a day, and watery stools, this kind of need rehydration, because sometimes he can not eat and drink to replenish the liquid.
When these signs of dehydration appear, it is important to rehydrate as soon as possible.
We know that some children have indigestion or eat too much and have diarrhea. How can parents tell if the diarrhea is caused by indigestion or infectious diarrhea?
We see a lot of children in the clinic who ate too much, went to a hot pot in the evening, followed by their parents to a buffet, ate a lot, and then had diarrhea the next day. A diet is too much, the diet is not controlled or improperly caused by the diet, this situation parents can also be observed at home, eat some digestive drugs can be.
Some parents will make some homemade sugar water mixed with salt for their children to eat, is this correct?
We are now not advocating fasting for children with diarrhea, because they are still dehydrated, but we still need to give them appropriate supplements. Sometimes the ratio of sugar and salt made at home is not the same, sometimes the salt is too much sodium is too high, too much sugar is not good, high sugar hyperosmolar diuresis is very powerful, it is better to go to the hospital to buy some oral rehydration salt III to oral effect will be better, now do not advocate fasting.
I don’t recommend fasting when a child has diarrhea, but what is the best way to arrange the diet?
Children who can eat food can drink white porridge and milk for diarrhea, but they should not eat fish, shrimp, eggs, meat and oil, and they should eat after three days. The older children also need to control, is to eat some porridge steamed buns noodles, light and easy to digest, so as to facilitate the recovery of gastrointestinal function.
If a baby has diarrhea and goes to the hospital, there are some tests that will be done, what tests are generally done?
We recommend that children with diarrhea have a stool routine, which is very simple, and the results will be available in 30 minutes, to see if there are white blood cells, red blood cells, fat globules, so that we can initially determine whether it is a viral or bacterial infection, too many white blood cells is a bacterial infection, and if there are too many fat globules, this is a general viral infection.
If the white blood cells are high, especially if there are red blood cells, it is afraid that it is a bacterial enteritis, we recommend further stool culture to see what kind of bacterial infection it is. Now this Salmonella infection is also quite common, it is a bacillus infection, this kind of more.
If the white blood cells and red blood cells are absent, there is no need to do any other stool tests. If there is a suspicion of bacterial infection, we will do a stool culture to see what kind of bacterial infection it is.
In addition, if the child is dehydrated. We can do an electrolyte test, which is called deepening of the eight items, to see if there are changes in potassium, chloride and calcium, and also to tie the finger to see if the white blood cells are high or low, to see if there is anemia.
Is diarrhea contagious? Do I need to pay any attention to hygiene if I have a child with diarrhea in my family?
Diarrhea can be contagious because it is mainly contagious by contact. Sometimes children may be contagious by contact if the adults are not careful or if the stool is not handled properly. Therefore, it is important to clean up the feces. It is best to separate the children’s and adults’ seat trays and dispose of the children’s feces in a timely manner. If an adult has diarrhea, special attention should be paid to the fact that it can easily infect a child, and a child can easily infect an adult with diarrhea, but the adult’s diarrhea is sometimes very mild and the symptoms are not very obvious.
When you have diarrhea, you must be careful not to cross-contaminate and to take good hygiene precautions.