Summer is one of the high incidences of diarrhea (gastroenterology) in babies. Since the gastrointestinal tract of children is not mature, it is easy to be attacked by germs. How to take care of your baby when he or she has diarrhea?
Babies often have diarrhea, and mothers are distressed and worried. Infant diarrhea is one of the common pediatric diseases, so is it destined to be frequent? No, it is not. Is it possible to successfully snuff out diarrhea with the mother’s help? Yes.
Please first eliminate these 7 misconceptions
Myths of diarrhea care
First, the baby fever anxiously, diarrhea run belly minor problems
Medical observation: parents can not underestimate a few bubble thin, which contains a lot of electrolytes and water, and electrolytes are essential to maintain the body’s plasma volume, is the material basis for maintaining the acid-base balance in the body, the role of water on the human body is even more important, infants and young children severe dehydration can lead to life-threatening. On the contrary, high fever is a mechanism for infants and children to fight against diseases, and is not as terrible as parents think.
Second, the treatment of diarrhea, the most important thing is to take medicine and injections
Medical observation: because the baby’s intestinal environment is violated, drugs are not the most important, much less the only treatment. Oral rehydration, food therapy, and careful dietary care play a pivotal role in the treatment of diarrheal diseases. In particular, some drugs are difficult for the intestines to absorb at this time, and the action of the active ingredients of the injectable drugs to the gut is not ideal. In short, medication for diarrhea is not the main thing, so parents’ family and dietary care is most important.
Third, as soon as the baby has diarrhea, parents immediately give their own medicine
Medical observation: Some parents immediately use medications as soon as they see their children with diarrhea, and these medications come from: medications that were not finished during the last diarrhea; self-purchased medications based on their own experience and pharmacy recommendations, etc. Inappropriate medical management leads to frequent medication changes and artificial medication tolerance. In fact, the cause, symptoms, and treatment of each diarrhea may be different, and parents are not capable of summarizing and discerning them. Please use medication under the guidance of your doctor! And, don’t just focus on antidiarrheal drugs, changing one after another, spending money for nothing and the child suffering. Diarrhea is the result, not the cause, so the root cause should be treated, not just stopping diarrhea.
Fourth, diarrhea is a disease from the mouth, the restriction of diet is the right thing to do
Medical observation: infant diarrhea does not advocate restricting the amount of food, not to mention restricting water. Infants and young children are in the rapid growth stage of the body and brain, diarrhea of the child has lost nutrients, and then the ban on food and water will not add insult to injury. Many children with diarrhea are often mishandled, leading to “starvation
Diarrhea” occurs. This is how diarrhea is caused to be delayed.
Five, used to call enteritis, since there is “inflammation” should eat antibacterial
Medical observation: this is a typical representative of the abuse of antimicrobial agents. The indiscriminate use of antibiotics to treat infant diarrhea is the main cause of treatment failure. The number of non-pathogenic bacteria in the intestinal tract of infants is small, and a normal flora system has not yet been established. The intestinal environment is unstable and easily damaged by external factors, and once the internal environment is damaged, it is not easy to recover. Therefore, antibacterial agents are only needed if a doctor diagnoses bacterial infectious diarrhea, and must be used under the guidance of a doctor.
Six, baby diarrhea, it must be sick
Medical observation: infants, especially small babies, non-“disease” diarrhea phenomenon is not uncommon. For example, breast-fed infants have more frequent and dilute stools, which is not diarrhea. If the mother’s diet has changed, such as eating cold or greasy food, beer, etc., or the mother comes back immediately after going out to feed the child, such and such reasons can lead to changes in the child’s stool, do not immediately think that the child has diarrhea, immediately take medicine, injections, to wait and see if it is caused by breast milk, perhaps pulling once or twice will soon get better. In addition, in the process of adding complementary foods, the infant’s stool may become diluted, green, with milk flaps, more often, which is not a diarrheal disease, but may not adapt to the new complementary foods. Reduce the amount of complementary food or stop adding, it will soon get better.
Seven, diarrhea disease treatment are the same
Medical observation: there are many causes of diarrhea in infants and young children, bacterial infectious diarrhea, of which the most representative is bacterial dysentery; viral infectious diarrhea, of which the most representative autumn diarrhea. Broadly speaking, diarrheal diseases in infants and young children also include hunger diarrhea, dyspeptic diarrhea, lactose intolerance diarrhea and irritable bowel syndrome. They all have different treatments, so parents should not be confused!
Parents should not think that diarrhea is a minor problem and just take some self-prepared medicine for their babies, this is a wrong approach! Parents need to find out the cause of their baby’s diarrhea, and there are different treatments for different diarrheas. Parents can’t mess around with it.
Five things to help reduce baby diarrhea
1, adhere to breastfeeding
Insist on breastfeeding: it is best to breastfeed your baby from birth to 4 months. Breast milk is best suited to the nutritional needs and digestive ability of infants. Human milk contains IgA, which can neutralize E. coli enterotoxin and has the effect of preventing infection with Escherichia coli and preventing pediatric diarrhea. During breastfeeding, the mother should avoid spicy, spicy, oily, greasy and cold excesses in her diet to avoid affecting her baby. Therefore, it is important to insist on breastfeeding the baby even in summer. Apply a clean towel to carefully scrub the nipples before breastfeeding the baby.
2. Eat easily digestible food
The baby’s gastrointestinal system is immature, so pay attention to adding easily digestible food when feeding your baby in the summer, so as not to add burden to the baby’s gastrointestinal tract. For breastfeeding babies, I still advocate breastfeeding because breast milk is clean and hygienic, the temperature is suitable, and there is a resistance factor, even if your breast milk is insufficient, you should insist on surviving this special summer season.
Newborn baby’s gastrointestinal digestive function is weaker, if you add milk powder in the summer, the baby is easy to accept, causing diarrhea, for older babies ready to add complementary foods, but also pay attention to one kind of one kind of add, and so the baby adapted to a complementary food before adding another, and do not add two kinds of complementary foods mixed, once the problem parents are difficult to distinguish which food is caused.
3, do not drink cold water, do not eat leftovers
Whether it is a small month-old baby or a large month-old baby, do not directly consume the food just taken out of the refrigerator, water should also drink room temperature water or even drink warm water, in fact, warm water is the most thirst quenching, and not like our adults understand the ice water to quench thirst, adults drink ice water is addictive, in fact, with warm water can achieve the same effect.
4, do not eat overnight meals
The same summer baby do not eat overnight meals, it is best not to eat every other meal, it is best to give the baby a new meal, the baby eats very little, so parents should be diligent, every meal should be fresh to the baby, so as not to cause diarrhea in the baby because of the spoiled meal. Summer drinking milk powder baby if left unfinished milk powder also should not be stored more than half an hour, if more than half an hour please immediately pour out.
5. Wash your hands regularly
For infectious diarrhea (gastroenterology), washing your hands (yours and your baby’s) frequently is the best preventive measure, because the bacteria that cause diarrhea (gastroenterology) can easily spread from your hands to your mouth. If your baby touches something such as a toy that has been contaminated with feces from another baby with diarrhea with his or her hands and then puts his or her fingers in the mouth, infection may occur and lead to diarrhea. Therefore you should use soap (not necessarily antibacterial soap) before preparing food for your baby, after changing diapers or going to the bathroom
Wash your hands thoroughly for at least 15 seconds. Wash your baby’s hands before eating fruits and vegetables as well, because harmful bacteria can also be spread this way.
Points that must be noted for diarrhea care
Once your baby has diarrhea, the following points also need to be taken care of during the treatment and care process. Some mothers do not take good care of it and may also let their babies have repeated diarrhea.
1, do not use antibiotics at will
The correct application of antibiotics pediatric diarrhea disease is a group of multi-causes, multi-factor diseases, infection is the main cause, its pathogenic bacteria, viruses, fungi, etc., the need for anti-infective treatment, but the long-term application of antibacterial drugs, especially broad-spectrum antibiotics can lead to intestinal flora disorders, making diarrhea aggravated or prolonged. Therefore, it is necessary to use antibiotics in a reasonable, adequate and standardized manner under the guidance of a doctor under a clear diagnosis.
2, do not easily use antidiarrheal drugs
Do not use antidiarrheal drugs easily when diarrhea occurs in children, appropriate use of antidiarrheal drugs is beneficial to prevent excessive loss of body fluids, but because diarrhea is a symptom common to a variety of diseases, therefore, in the treatment should be used for the cause, do not immediately use antidiarrheal drugs as soon as you see diarrhea, abuse of antidiarrheal drugs, not only can not cure some diarrhea, on the contrary, there are certain side effects on children, especially small infants.
3.Timely hydration
Pay attention to timely replenishment of water to prevent serious dehydration Most of the pediatric diarrhea starts very quickly, and frequent diarrhea can cause rapid loss of water and nutrients in the body, resulting in acute dehydration. Water is an important substance for life, and the younger the child, the greater the proportion of water to body weight. If a child loses 5% of his body weight in water, symptoms of dehydration (mental depression, thirst, irritability, weakness, reduced urine output, poor skin elasticity, etc.) can occur; if it exceeds 15%, convulsions and coma (neurology) can occur, which can be life-threatening. It follows that parents should continue to let their children eat at this time, paying special attention to fluid intake. Only early prevention and timely correction of dehydration will enable the child to recover as soon as possible.