How to prevent diarrhea in babies

  1, breast milk is not only the right temperature, comprehensive nutrition, but also contains immunoglobulins and other disease-fighting ingredients, so try to feed your baby breast milk. Supplementary foods are limited to one at a time, gradually increasing, and weaning at the right time; artificial feeders should choose the right milk substitute according to the specific situation.
  2. Develop good dietary hygiene habits, pay attention to the preservation of milk products and the disinfection of milk utensils, eating utensils, toilets, toys and equipment; wash hands before eating and do not eat unclean things.
  3. For infants with physiological diarrhea, inappropriate treatment should be avoided, or not adding complementary foods on time due to the suspicion of the child’s digestive ability because of the high number of stools.
  4, parents should properly store the food, every other meal or bought back cooked food should be re-cooked thoroughly before eating, raw and cooked food should be separated, and spoiled and moldy food should be thrown away in time.
  5, let the baby do some outdoor activities, that is, exercise and increase the baby’s ability to adapt to changes in the external environment.
  6, in the autumn rotavirus enteritis period, as little as possible to take the baby to a crowded place, to avoid contact infection.
  7, pay attention to air circulation, keep the indoor air fresh, ventilation is an effective way to reduce and eliminate pathogenic bacteria.
  8. Avoid long-term abuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics to prevent diarrhea caused by dysbiosis of intestinal flora.
  Dietary treatment for children with diarrhea
  Since children eat and absorb less during diarrhea, and the repair of damaged intestinal mucosa and increased metabolism due to fever increase the nutritional needs of children, it is necessary to continue to give children diet to supplement disease consumption, meet physiological needs and shorten the course of illness. When children have diarrhea, the following should be done in the diet
  The following points should be done on the diet of children with diarrhea.
  1, breastfeeding people continue to breastfeed, suspend the addition of complementary foods.
  2, artificially fed children can be fed equal amounts of rice soup or diluted milk or other milk substitutes, from rice soup, porridge, noodles, etc. gradually transition to a normal diet.
  3, non-breastfeeding food should be easy to digest, meet the taste of the child’s diet, and make it softer. Don’t force your child to eat when he/she doesn’t want to.
  4, with the child like to drink drinks to replenish water: because diarrhea when the water loss more, need more water to replenish, so you can find some children like to drink drinks to replenish water.
  5, there are serious vomiting can be temporary fasting 4-6 hours (can drink water), to vomiting better after continued feeding, from less to more, from thin to thick.
  6, sweets and other foods that can easily lead to flatulence is best to eat less or not, because flatulence can make diarrhea intensify.
  7, eggs, milk and meat food and other protein-rich food is difficult to digest, it is best to eat less.
  8, fiber-rich fruits and vegetables, such as pineapple, watermelon, cabbage, peppers, leeks, sweet potatoes, etc., will promote intestinal peristalsis and thus aggravate diarrhea, diarrhea baby should try to eat less of such fruits and vegetables. In order to avoid aggravating the gastrointestinal burden, should also avoid eating cold, greasy food.
  9, viral enteritis when more lactase deficiency, at this time can suspend feeding dairy foods, can be replaced with soy milk substitute, fermented milk or de-lactose formula to reduce diarrhea.
  10.When severe diarrhea persists, although the diarrhea has stopped, the digestive function needs to return to normal after a period of time, so you cannot immediately resume eating the original non-breast milk food, you should first feed the sticky food at the beginning of weaning, and then slowly resume after a few days.