The medical term for infant diarrhea is infantile diarrhea. Infant diarrhea can be seen in infectious diarrheal disease, non-infectious diarrhea, whether to continue breastfeeding needs to be analyzed in conjunction with the cause of the disease, such as the consideration of severe lactose intolerance, it is necessary to suspend breastfeeding, adjusted to lactose-free formula feeding.
1. Infectious diarrhea: diarrhea caused by viral or bacterial infections can present with diarrhea symptoms, and some children may be accompanied by vomiting. If this disease is considered and there is no obvious vomiting during the course of the disease, breastfeeders can generally continue to feed, but need to pay attention to the amount of feeding, if there is obvious vomiting, it is necessary to temporarily fasting, stop feeding.
2. Non-infectious diarrhea disease:
(1) lactose intolerance: these children may also have diarrhea symptoms, can give the child oral lactase for treatment, such as lactase effect is not good, and affect the growth and development, it is necessary to stop breastfeeding, adjusted to lactose-free formula milk for feeding.
(2) Cow’s milk protein allergy: diarrhea or bloody stools may occur during the course of the disease. If the mother’s avoidance of protein foods is effective in the treatment, there is no need to stop breastfeeding for the time being; if the effect is unsatisfactory, breastfeeding should be discontinued and replaced with hydrolyzed protein milk powder for intervention.
For infantile diarrhea, it is recommended to actively seek medical attention to identify the cause of the disease and to give reasonable guidance after evaluation of the cause by a specialist. The above medications should be used in accordance with medical advice.