How to do if your baby accidentally eats sand

Baby playing with sand after eating into the stomach and intestines will be due to the sand has bacteria, may lead to poor gastrointestinal digestion or intestinal inflammation symptoms occur. What needs to be done is to let the child expel the sand out of the body as soon as possible, to give the child more water, you can let the baby more activities to play, to promote intestinal peristalsis. At the same time parents can give the child clockwise abdominal rubbing and other ways to let the child expel the sand. If you want to speed up the process, you can also take diarrhea-inducing drugs orally for expulsion, or you can apply corkage to promote the elimination of foreign bodies from the intestine after about 2-4 hours of eating sand. In the short term, it is possible that the child’s gastrointestinal function may not be good after taking sand orally, so the dietary principle is to take light and easily digestible food as the mainstay, and not to take greasy and stimulating food orally to avoid affecting the intestinal tract and aggravating the child’s diarrhea and other phenomena.