In summer, it is the high incidence of acute gastroenteritis, if you encounter children with abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting and other symptoms, parents may first think of acute gastroenteritis. As a result, some “experienced” parents will take the liberty to get some gastrointestinal medicine for their children to eat. The early clinical symptoms of pediatric intestinal obstruction can easily be mistaken for acute gastroenteritis, so parents should keep an eye out for it and not delay the treatment.
The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the actual website. Intussusception is more common in the summer and autumn, especially when it comes to seasonal changes, due to the poor gastrointestinal regulation of children, prone to intestinal dysfunction.
The onset of intussusception is usually sudden, with pale, cold sweats, paroxysmal crying, sometimes rolling around in pain, vomiting, and jam-like blood in the stool after 8 to 12 hours. Within 48 hours of onset, if the child is in good spirits and has a soft tummy, it can be reset by air enema. If it is not reset, the air enema can be repeated within 2 to 5 hours. If it is not reset, the overlapped intestine can only be surgically reset.
There are four major symptoms of intestinal obstruction Because of the symptoms of vomiting in the early stage of intestinal obstruction, it is easy to be mistaken for acute gastroenteritis, so some children are sent to the hospital only when the symptoms are aggravated and they cry a lot, which is easy to cause misdiagnosis.
Although the symptoms of intestinal obstruction vary depending on the cause, location, nature and degree of obstruction, there are four common symptoms such as abdominal pain, abdominal distension, vomiting and constipation. Vomiting can occur soon after the obstruction, initially as reflex vomiting, and later as reflux of intestinal contents into the stomach; abdominal distension usually starts to appear after the occurrence of obstruction for a period of time, while high small intestine obstruction has no obvious abdominal distension due to frequent vomiting, and low small intestine obstruction has full abdominal distension; as the obstruction occurs, anal defecation and exhaustion will constipation will stop after the obstruction occurs.
If the child has diarrhea, it is usually not intestinal obstruction, but if there is bloody stool, it is difficult to say. In the early stage of obstruction, the stool and gas remaining in the distal intestine of the obstruction can still be excreted, but blood stool may also be excreted because there will be intestinal overlap and mesenteric thrombosis. “Intestinal obstruction is relatively common in pediatric surgery, but children are often unable to describe their symptoms clearly. For this reason, parents are reminded that they should be highly alert if they find the above typical manifestations of intestinal obstruction in their children to avoid delaying the disease”.