Pediatric diarrhea is the most common pediatric gastrointestinal disorder, characterized by an increased frequency of stools and thin or watery stools. Although, pediatric diarrhea is very common and happens from time to time, if it is excessively defecated, it can easily cause dehydration, body weakness, qi and yin injury, and may even lead to a body with frequent diarrhea. Therefore, when the baby appears to have the symptoms of diarrhea, the first thing to do is to identify which condition is causing the diarrhea, and then symptomatic conditioning, so as to effectively stop the diarrhea!
First, the five cases of diarrhea in children
1, injury diarrhea
If there are milk clots or food residues in the stool, the smell is sour, abdominal distension, abdominal pain and diarrhea, the pain decreases after diarrhea, belching and rancidity, occasional vomiting, poor appetite, restless sleep at night.
2, wind-cold diarrhea
Clear and foamy stools, feces without odor, intestinal rumbling and abdominal pain, chills and fever in children, runny nose.
3, damp-heat diarrhea
Diarrhea watery stool, dark yellow-brown and smelly or see a little mucus, urine short red, lips easy to present red dry, accompanied by fever and thirst.
4.Spleen deficiency diarrhea
Loose stools, light color and no odor, often after feeding diarrhea, diarrhea is sometimes light and sometimes heavy, easy to fatigue, yellowish face, thin body shape.
5.Spleen and kidney Yang deficiency diarrhea
Long-term diarrhea, feces with a large amount of undigested food, sometimes there will be the phenomenon of prolapse, cold to the touch of the limbs, white, depressed, dewy when sleeping.
Many parents think that their babies have diarrhea when they see that their babies have thin stools, but it is not necessarily so. It is true that thinning and more stools are the characteristics of diarrhea, but at the same time, the number and nature of the baby’s daily bowel movements should also be determined. It is normal for breastfed babies to have 6 to 12 bowel movements per day, or once every 3 to 4 days, depending on the quality of the food they eat. If your baby really has diarrhea, in addition to bowel problems, it will be accompanied by symptoms such as crying, poor eating and restless sleep.
In short, diarrhea is not necessarily a bad thing, according to the cause of diarrhea appropriate medication and nutrition, blindly immediately stop diarrhea is not knowing initiatives!
Second, the prevention of baby diarrhea methods
1, diet hygiene
Milk utensils should be sterilized by boiling once a day, washed after each use, and scalded with boiling water when used again. Do not touch with unclean hands, and when the pacifier is not working, adults should not use their mouths to suck through and give the child to eat to prevent illness from entering the mouth. The baby’s eating utensils must also be hygienic, so that the prevention of diarrhea at the same time, can also prevent the occurrence of thrush.
2, promote breastfeeding
Breast milk is the most suitable for the nutritional needs and digestion of babies.
3.Preventing baby from catching fire
Because of the baby’s delicate spleen and stomach, it is easy to accumulate food and heat in the stomach and intestines, and “fire” can easily cause diarrhea. The treatment to prevent fire is to drink more water! Breastfeeding mothers usually do not eat fire, which will also affect the baby through breast milk, resulting in fire.
4, diet quality
Insufficient breast milk or lack of breast milk to take mixed feeding and artificial feeding, should pay attention to diet allocation, should not be too much or too early to give rice paste or porridge and other food, so as not to occur carbohydrate indigestion and affect the growth and development of the child.
Many infants from birth to 3 months are not enough breast milk, while milk powder feeding, many parents are worried that the baby will not eat enough to make the milk powder especially thick, which is very detrimental to digestion! No matter what dairy products you supplement to your child need to be properly diluted to facilitate digestion and absorption.
5.Avoid bad stimulation
Children should be prevented from excessive fatigue, fright or mental overstimulation in their daily lives.
Third, if your baby has the following conditions, you need to go to the doctor
1.Bloody stool or pus-bloody stool
suggesting that the baby may have a serious infection or intussusception.
2.More stools, less urine, poor spirit
suggesting dehydration, electrolyte and acid-base imbalance, etc.
3, repeated diarrhea for more than 2 weeks
It is possible that the cause of the baby is complicated and further examination is needed.