Neonatal impetigo (purulent infection), sweat pimples
1, newborn skin is thin and tender, rich in blood vessels, should be prevented from abrasion and cause infection.
2, keep the newborn’s skin clean and hygienic, clothes should be wide, soft and not faded.
3, septic skin disease family members should not touch the newborn to prevent cross-infection.
4, when the external temperature is high, newborns are prone to sweating and have a white sweat rash, generally do not need to deal with. When the face. Trunk. When large blisters occur on the face, trunk, and extremities, with pus inside, forming a pustular rash, prompt medical treatment is needed to prevent complications.
Neonatal umbilical cord infection
1. The umbilical cord is usually shed 3-7 days after birth. When there is exudate in the umbilical fossa after the cord is shed, swab with alcohol or iodine volt swab to keep the umbilicus clean and dry to avoid contamination.
2. Before the umbilical cord falls off, check whether the gauze wrapped around the umbilical cord is bleeding or not, and retie it to stop the bleeding if there is more exudate. The umbilical cord should not be stimulated by foreign substances such as talcum powder when it is not dislodged.
3. If you find redness and swelling of the umbilical cord, purulent discharge from the umbilical cord, and a foul smell, you should go to the hospital promptly.
Neonatal jaundice
1, carefully observe the changes in jaundice. Jaundice is yellow from the head and recedes from the feet, while the eyes are the earliest yellow and the latest to recede, so you can start by observing the eyes. You can press any part of the body, as long as the pressed skin is white, it does not matter, is yellow should be noted.
Observe your baby’s daily life. If you feel that your baby looks more and more yellow, has poor spirit and appetite, or has an unstable body temperature, is drowsy, and cries easily, you should go to the hospital for examination.
3, pay attention to the color of the baby’s stool, if the liver and biliary tract problems, the stool will become white, but not suddenly become white, but more and more pale, if coupled with the body suddenly yellow again, you must bring to the doctor to see.
4, try not to make the house too dark, curtains are not drawn too tightly.
5. Breastfeed regularly. If the jaundice is proven to be caused by insufficient feeding, the mother must feed the baby diligently because lactation is a normal physiological response, and diligent sucking will stimulate the secretion of milk hormones, and the more milk will be secreted. The baby urinates more than 6 times a day and continues to gain weight, which means that the amount of food is sufficient.
6, if the jaundice recedes and rises again, you must go to the hospital in time for a checkup.
Infant diarrhea
Common causes of diarrhea are.
1, eating too much or too many times, which increases the burden on the gastrointestinal tract.
2. adding supplementary foods too quickly or with too many varieties of food, or consuming too much greasy food with dregs that cannot be completely digested.
3, eating food with bacteria, causing gastrointestinal tract infections
5, suffering from diseases other than the digestive tract (such as colds, pneumonia, etc.), which can lead to diarrhea due to digestive disorders.
6, when the ambient temperature is too low or too high, the child may also have diarrhea.
The following things should be done after infant diarrhea.
1. Do not fast. Infants who eat breast milk should continue to feed as long as the infant wants to eat. Infants who eat milk can reduce the amount of milk by about 1/3 each time and add some water to the milk slightly. If the baby does not eat enough after the reduction, you can add rice soup with salt or feed carrot water or fresh vegetable water to replenish inorganic salts and vitamins. For infants who have already added supplementary foods such as porridge, the amount of these foods can be reduced slightly. Be sure to feed water according to the infant’s thirst.
2. Early detection of dehydration. When the infant has severe diarrhea, accompanied by vomiting, fever, thirst, dry lips, little or no urine, sunken eye sockets, sunken fontanelle, the infant is “thin” in a short period of time, the skin is “wilted”, crying without tears, this indicates that dehydration has been caused, the sick child should be promptly sent to the This indicates that dehydration has been caused, and the sick child should be sent to the hospital for treatment.
3. Prevent dehydration. Use oral rehydration salts to constantly replenish the water and salt lost due to diarrhea and vomiting, dehydration will not occur.
4, do not abuse antibiotics. Many light diarrhea without antibiotics and other anti-inflammatory drug treatment can be self-healing; or take gold double-fold and other micro-ecological preparations, Similac and other water adsorption drugs also quickly healed, especially autumn diarrhea due to viral infections, the application of antibiotic treatment is not only ineffective, but harmful; bacterial dysentery or other bacterial diarrhea, antibiotics can be applied, but must be treated under the guidance of a doctor.
Parents should carefully observe the nature, color, frequency and amount of stool, and keep the abnormal part of the stool as a specimen for laboratory tests to find the cause of diarrhea; pay attention to keeping the abdomen warm to reduce intestinal peristalsis; pay attention to letting the baby rest more, wash the buttocks with warm water after defecation to prevent red buttocks from occurring, clean the diaper, boil it to disinfect it, and dry it again.
Home care of milk spillage and vomiting in infants and toddlers
Overflow is a normal reflux of milk, which is close to the mouth or just around the mouth, while vomiting is a strong and forceful spurt of milk from the mouth, which is far from the mouth and usually indicates a more serious illness.
As long as the baby has normal growth and weight gain, does not choke to the point of causing recurrent pneumonia, and does not spill blood or yellow-green bile, the baby can be observed and the following measures can be taken, which will usually improve.
1, the size of the teat hole should be moderate. If the milk hole is too big, the milk will flow too fast and it will be too late to swallow, which will easily cause overflow; too small may make the baby inhale too much air and easily overflow. Generally, when the bottle is upside down, the speed of one drop per second is sufficient.
2. Feed your baby in small amounts and with many meals. Avoid shaking your baby’s body during and after feeding. When you are halfway through feeding your baby, first help him/her to vent the milk and then feed the other half. After feeding, hold your baby in an upright position for about 30 minutes. When the baby is lying down, raise the body about 30-45 degrees.
3. If the above methods do not improve, add rice flour or wheat flour to the milk to thicken it or use special milk powder to reduce milk spillage. If there is still no improvement, consider medication.
4. A small number of babies with milk spills or vomiting are allergic to milk proteins, so try using hypoallergenic formula under the guidance of a physician.
5. Milk spillage usually improves with age, especially when the baby is able to sit up or stand up. However, it is important to pay attention to whether your baby has any of the following.
(1) Vomit, if it contains yellow-green bile, consider if there is intestinal obstruction; if it contains blood or coffee-colored stuff, consider bleeding from the esophagus, stomach or duodenum.
(2) Jet vomiting occurs after meals, the vomit does not contain yellow-green bile, and it becomes more powerful day by day, without weight gain or even loss, it is important to pay attention to the occurrence of infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis.
(3) Intracranial hypertension due to brain lesions should also be considered in cases of severe vomiting.
Any of the above scenarios means that the baby may have a serious illness and must be seen by a pediatrician.
Home care for pediatric fever (fever)
There are many causes of pediatric fever, which can be broadly classified into the following three categories.
1. Influenced by the external environment, such as wearing too many clothes in the heat, drinking too little water, and lack of air circulation in the room.
2, intrinsic factors: illness, cold, bronchitis, throat inflammation or other diseases.
3, other factors: such as preventive injections, including measles, cholera, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus and other reactions.
The physician treats the disease, the first priority is the discovery of the cause of the disease and the method that can completely cure it, not just to reduce fever. Therefore, in some cases, fever symptoms are allowed to continue to manifest in order to explore the true cause of the disease. Only diseases such as encephalitis and meningitis, in which the brain itself is damaged by the virus, can injure the intelligence or sensory functions, and fever will not make a person stupid or deaf. However, if the temperature exceeds 41°C, the child has a higher chance of bacterial meningitis or sepsis and should be alerted. The correct way to reduce fever should be.
1. Maintain air circulation in the home and maintain the room temperature at 25-27°C. You can put your toddler in a cool room or blow around with an electric fan to bring down the body temperature slowly. If his or her limbs are cold and he or she is shivering, he or she needs to be warmed up and covered with a blanket.
2.If the child’s limbs, hands and feet are warm and the whole body is sweating, it means that the child needs to dissipate heat and can wear less clothes.
3.Uncover your child’s body and rub the whole body with a towel of warm water (37℃) to make the blood vessels of the baby’s skin expand and disperse the body heat, in addition, when the water evaporates from the body surface, it will also absorb the body heat.
4, sleeping on an ice pillow helps to dissipate heat, but it is not recommended for small children, because young children are not easy to turn their bodies, ice pillows are easy to cause local overcooling or hypothermia. The use of fever patches can also be used, the water in the gel-like substance of the fever patches can be vaporized when the heat is taken away, there will be no excessive cooling.
5, drink more water to help sweat, and prevent dehydration.
6, the use of antipyretic drugs: when the central temperature of infants and children (anal temperature or ear temperature) exceeds 38.5 ℃, you can moderate the use of antipyretic drops or suppositories.
Correct use of antipyretic drugs.
1.Some specific viral infections such as chickenpox or influenza, aspirin may trigger Reye’s syndrome and should not be used.
2, suppositories used to plug the anus, absorbed by the rectum, the dosage would rather take a small amount, intensive use is easy to reduce fever too much, the body temperature drops steeply, or repeatedly stimulate the anus, resulting in diarrhea. Fever reducing injection is the most unsafe, some children even allergic shock.
3, different antipyretic drugs should not be used arbitrarily with each other, it is safer to use alone.
4, antipyretic drugs should not be more than a few times or will increase the dose. Medicine can be toxic, any drug (including antipyretics) have their certain usage, eat too much that will produce toxicity. One of the toxic reactions of antipyretics is that they raise the body temperature.
Home care for children with cough
1. Coughing is a symptom that is a protective reflex of the body and serves to clear the respiratory tract of waste (including microorganisms, inhaled particles, secretions from inflammation, etc.).
2. There are many causes of coughing. Coughing caused by respiratory tract infections (throat inflammation) is the most common, but it can also be caused by a child accidentally choking on a very small foreign body (peanuts, melon seed crumbs, etc.) in the trachea and coughing incessantly.
3. It is not necessary to take cough medicine right away because cough medicine generally has a cough suppressant effect, and some also have anesthetic effects on the central nervous system. If you take cough medicine as soon as you cough, your child will stop coughing, but the uncoughing phlegm will gather and block the breathing passages, thus affecting your child’s breathing and the elimination of inflammatory substances in the respiratory tract. Therefore, in the early stages of coughing, children with inflammation in the respiratory tract are usually given anti-inflammatory medication, and when the inflammation subsides, the cough naturally subsides. If the cough is too strong and affects your child’s sleep, you can use some special cough medicine for children.
4. As long as the child is well with regular treatment, it doesn’t matter if he or she has a slight cough, there is a process to recover from a cough. Most of the coughs at this time are caused by the child’s inability to spit up phlegm. If the cough is not severe, there is no need to make a fuss about it, and you can give your child dietary therapy, such as giving him or her some honey boiled pear water. If you feel that your child has phlegm that has not been coughed up, you can give them some phlegm medicine.
5, high white blood cells indicate that there is still inflammation, a few days after the injection, but also continue to eat two to three days of anti-inflammatory drugs transition.
6, the child’s diet is not reasonable, malnutrition, rickets, lack of trace elements (such as iron and zinc deficiency), etc. are likely to cause a cough and cold, not necessarily low immunity. When your child has repeated colds and coughs, look for a pediatrician to find the cause and treat the symptoms, rather than blindly giving your child immunity-boosting drugs.
7. It is very beneficial for children to wear less and have more exposure to cold environments to prevent them from getting a cold and cough.
8.It is best to pick up the baby when he coughs violently, so that his upper body is at an angle of 45 degrees, while gently patting his back with his hands, so that the secretions adhering to the trachea can be loosened and facilitate coughing.
9, maintain the air temperature, temperature and cleanliness is very important. It is best to keep the room temperature around 20-26℃, ventilate regularly, and keep the indoor humidity at 50%-70%, which is conducive to coughing out the sputum dilution, but if the air is too dry, the sputum will not be easily discharged from the tracheal wall.
10. Lift the pillow at night to reduce the stimulation of the throat by gastroesophageal reflux in children with severe cough.
Home care for children with spasms
The condition called “convulsions” by most people is medically known as “convulsions”. Convulsions often appear as sudden generalized or localized spasmodic convulsions, mostly accompanied by impaired consciousness, eye rolling, staring or squinting, short duration of seizures, or repeated seizures in severe cases.
Causes of convulsions.
1, continuous high fever in infants and children is a high-risk factor for inducing convulsions.
2. Children with brain or nervous system disorders are also prone to convulsions.
What should I do if my child has convulsions?
1, reasonably good cooling measures to avoid children in a continuous state of hyperthermia, will be able to effectively prevent convulsions.
2, for the original brain disease with infection, low or moderate fever can cause convulsive seizures in children, and is a high risk factor for recurrent seizures, for this part of infants and children, should actively take preventive measures, when the child’s body temperature is greater than 38.50C, you can give oral antipyretics, and according to medical advice oral Valium tablets (0.2-0.3mg/kg) or oral Luminol tablets (3-5mg/kg), to prevent convulsive seizures. to prevent convulsions.
3, once found infants and young children convulsions, should immediately unbutton the child’s clothes, pants belt, make it lie still in bed. Keep the surrounding environment quiet, let the child’s head to the side, tongue depressor or wooden chopsticks, toothbrush handle and other things wrapped in cloth between the upper and lower incisors to prevent biting the tongue. Parents can also use their thumbs to press the human middle point can also play a role in setting the alarm.
4, at the same time, constantly remove the affected and oral and nasal cavity of the minute percolation, mucus and other foreign matter, to keep the respiratory tract unobstructed.
5.Shaking or shouting at the child is strictly prohibited to prevent aggravating the convulsions.
6, if the child convulsions caused by high fever, then the fever should be reduced. Ice towels or ice packs can be applied to the forehead, armpits, groin and other large blood vessels of the child, or 50% alcohol to rub the extremities, so that the blood vessels dilate, the skin reddens, and promote heat dissipation. You can also pinch the human middle, needling the human middle, Neiguan, Hegu and other points to stop the panic.
7, the recurrence of convulsions, confusion, should pay close attention to the child’s breathing, pupils, such as shallow and rapid breathing, deepening and irregular, breath holding, double inhalation and other symptoms, or pupils dilated, light response disappeared, etc., should be considered the child occurred brain edema or brain herniation, should immediately send the child to the hospital emergency.
Children with congenital heart disease home care
1, live to be regular, pay attention to rest, do not watch too much TV and play, to ensure enough sleep, to maintain the appropriate temperature and humidity, family members and outsiders do not smoke in the bedroom where the patient lives, in order to keep the air fresh, the window can be opened for half an hour every morning, when opening the window, pay attention to keep warm, the time should not be too long. If there is no condition to take a bath, you can use wet water scrubbing to keep the skin clean.
2, dietary hygiene: pay attention to supplemental nutrition, generally nothing special contraindicated, but should consume food of high value and easy to digest, such as lean meat, fish, eggs, fruits and all kinds of vegetables. There is no need to limit the amount of salt, complex malformations, low cardiac function, postoperative persistent congestive heart failure to strictly control the intake of salt, adults to control 4-8 grams per day, 2-4 grams for children, and give easy-to-digest soft food, such as mixed ravioli, noodles, thin rice, etc.. Patients with precordial disease should eat less and more meals, not too much food, not to mention overeating, so as not to increase the burden on the heart. The diet should be fresh and hygienic to prevent diarrhea from aggravating the disease. Children should control snacks and drinks, do not eat snacks that are not clean, expired or contain more coloring and instrument additives plus agents.
3.Appropriate activities: For patients with smooth surgery, satisfactory deformity correction and fast postoperative recovery, activities are generally not restricted after discharge from the hospital. The range of activities should be indoor first and then outdoor. Most patients can go to school or work after 3 months if there is no change in their condition after discharge, and gradually transition from light work to normal work. If you feel fatigue or shortness of breath, you should stop working and continue to rest. Pre-operative patients with cardiac function above grade III, severe heart enlargement, severe pulmonary hypertension patients, the heart to return to normal or basically normal longer time, do not rush to activities after discharge, pay attention to rest, maintain physical strength, with the condition of the appropriate amount of activity, but do not feel fatigue, so as not to increase the burden on the heart.
4, medication: simple congenital heart disease people, better recovery after surgery, normal heart function, generally do not need to use cardiac diuretics, complex deformity and severe pulmonary hypertension or poor heart function patients should use cardiac diuretics or vasodilators under the guidance of doctors according to the correction of deformity, patients should strictly follow the doctor’s orders to use drugs, do not take at random to avoid danger.
5.Before the child receives surgical treatment to correct the deformity, it is necessary to prevent respiratory infection, so whenever the weather changes, parents should take care of the child, increase or decrease clothes with the season; go to public places less often; also pay attention to keep the air inside the house fresh. As the intracardiac defects in children with atrial septal defect are not serious, children often have no abnormal performance and are often ignored by parents. Once diagnosed, the child must cooperate with the doctor for treatment. After correction of the deformity, the child will be able to participate in various activities as normal healthy children.
Home care for children with kidney disease
The first 2-3 weeks of acute nephritis in children often have upper respiratory tract infections, tonsillitis, scarlet fever or septicemia due to staphylococcus, and can be caused by viral infections. In the first week of the disease, about 95% of the children develop swelling, initially of the upper eyelids, which gradually spreads to the whole body after 1-2 days. Some children also have elevated blood pressure, which returns to normal with diuretics. In the early stages of the disease, hospitalization and absolute bed rest are usually required until the inflammation disappears.
The child can be discharged at home after normal examination, so home care is important for the recovery of the disease. Care should pay attention to.
1.Improve the environment and prevent complications such as colds and infections.
2, dietary care: according to the doctor’s recommendations, it is generally advisable to be light and tasty, to avoid excessive salt, protein-based foods do not need to be particularly restricted, can be appropriate to eat more rice, steamed buns and other staple foods.
3, skin care: regular cleaning to prevent bedsores.
4.Do the psychological care of the sick child.
5.Supervise the sick child to insist on rest.
6.Pay attention to the observation of the disease and regular check-ups.
Home care for children with iron deficiency anemia
Iron is an indispensable trace element for human hematopoiesis, and most of this disease is caused by insufficient iron intake, such as long-term breast-feeding without supplementary food, or adding supplementary food in an untimely manner and in too small an amount; too restrictive diet during the illness and recovery period, as well as partial diet, etc.; for young infants with rapid growth and development, the intake of iron cannot keep up; also, such as digestive disorders, long-term vomiting or diarrhea, chronic dysentery, etc. can directly The absorption of iron and protein can be obstructed and cause anemia.
The disease can occur at any age in children and is mainly characterized by fatigue, dizziness and tinnitus, loss of appetite. The main symptoms are fatigue, dizziness, tinnitus, loss of appetite, poor digestion, restlessness, inability to concentrate, pale skin, lips, oral mucosa, conjunctiva, palms and nails. In severe anemia, there may be hypothermia, accelerated respiration and pulse, enlarged heart, systolic murmur can be heard in the precordial area, enlarged liver and spleen, and even delayed mental development.
Care points.
1. The living room environment should be quiet and the air should be circulated. Because of the low resistance of anemic children, they are easily infected with diseases such as indigestion, diarrhea, pneumonia, etc. Therefore, children with anemia should go to public places where there are many people as little as possible, and pay attention not to contact with other patients to avoid cross-infection, because the infection can aggravate the anemia.
2.Rational feeding is an important way to correct anemia. Give more iron-rich food, such as animal heart, liver, kidney, blood, beef, egg yolk, spinach, soy products, black fungus, red dates, etc., and correct partial eating habits. Advocate breastfeeding, because breast milk contains more iron than milk, and easy to absorb. And pay attention to the timely addition of supplementary food, such as 3~4 months old infants, can be given 1/4 egg yolk, and later gradually increased to 1, 5~6 months plus vegetable puree, 7 months after the addition of minced meat, liver puree, trying to improve the baby’s appetite, while preventing indigestion.
3. Take iron preparations under the guidance of a doctor. Infants are best served between meals to facilitate absorption, because iron stimulates the gastric mucosa and is prone to nausea and vomiting after serving, while avoiding taking it with milk and calcium tablets at the same time, and do not feed it with tea to avoid affecting the absorption of iron. Iron dosage should be in accordance with medical advice, the use of excessive amounts, can be toxic.
4. Patients with severe anemia are prone to palpitations and shortness of breath after activity, and must rest in bed, and if necessary, oxygen and blood transfusion.
Home care of upper respiratory tract infection in children
1, 90% of pediatric upper respiratory infections are caused by viruses, so when you encounter a child with a fever and cough, do not take antibiotics as soon as you come up, you should mainly take herbal medicines to clear heat and detoxify the body, stop coughing and resolve phlegm, if combined with bacterial infections, for example, bacterial pneumonia, you can take antibiotics under the guidance of a doctor.
2, antipyretics generally need to be fed only every four hours, and low or moderate fever can not take antipyretics, high fever (39 ℃ or more) and then take, if the fever does not go down after taking the medicine, and not to four hours, you can take physical cooling methods to reduce fever, such as cold towels cold compresses on both sides of the neck, the root of the thighs, double armpits, or take a warm hot bath (do not get cold), head pillow cool water bag, etc..
3, rest and nutrition is very important to the recovery of the disease, as the saying goes: “three parts treatment seven parts nourishment.” To let children drink more water, more rest, some children’s condition is not too heavy, parents should not meet the child’s request to take him to buy toys, go to the park, which will make the disease aggravated.
4. Be sure to drink more water to replenish the body fluids consumed by the fever, promote the discharge of toxins, dilute the disease fluid, etc. 5. Diet to liquid, semi-liquid is good, if the child swallowed with a bottle easy to choke and cough, you can switch to spoon feeding, if the appetite is not good or vomiting, you can appropriately increase the number of times to eat milk, each time the amount of less, vegetable juice and vegetable water do not reduce, because they contain vitamins and minerals, is good for the recovery of the disease The
6, good rest, rest environment should be quiet, comfortable, especially pay attention to keep indoor ventilation, fresh air, winter room heating, not too hot too dry, must be regularly open the window ventilation, once in the morning and afternoon, each time about 15 minutes, in addition parents should never smoke indoors.
7, in the respiratory tract infection, nasal cavity, tracheal secretions a lot, will cause poor breathing, nostril if too much dry crust, you can use a cotton swab with cool boiled water, slowly moisten and then gently pull out, if the child has a prone sleep habits, at this time should be kept on their side to cause breathing difficulties.
8, in the process of caring for the child, pay more attention to observe his spirit, face color, breathing times, changes in body temperature, if the child has a history of high fever convulsions, the body temperature in 38 ℃ more to take antipyretic drugs, so as not to reach high fever caused by convulsions.
Home care for children with hypoglycemia
Sugar is an important source of energy for human body, whole blood glucose <2.2mmol/L (40mg/dl) is diagnosed as hypoglycemia in children. Hypoglycemia can cause sympathetic excitement in children, and symptoms such as hunger, dizziness, panic and hand trembling, pale face, cold sweat and weakness can occur, which can cause brain damage in children in serious cases. Clinical observation shows that the clinical manifestations of diabetic patients in different age groups are not exactly the same when hypoglycemia occurs. For example, hypoglycemia in infants and younger children may manifest as difficulty in breastfeeding, crying, irritability, pale face, cold sweat, inattentiveness, nightmares, urination, etc. It may occur at night as bedwetting, and the symptoms lack specificity and must be carefully observed to be detected. Parents should pay attention to hypoglycemia in children. The main cause of hypoglycemia is insufficient sugar intake or increased consumption, so in order to prevent hypoglycemia, we should consume enough sugar.
1.For children, according to their age and physiological characteristics, arrange their diet reasonably in a regular and quantitative manner.
2.For newborn babies, breastfeed as soon as possible after birth to promote mother’s milk secretion and ensure breastfeeding.
3, for l-year-old children, the diet should be diversified, nutritious and easy to digest, it is best to arrange three meals and two points daily is more appropriate. This will ensure that there is sufficient sugar intake.
4, for the weak, eating less children should be more alert to the occurrence of hypoglycemia. Once the child appears pale, sweating, weak, should think of the possibility of hypoglycemia, immediately give the child a cup of sugar water, can make the child symptoms relief.
5.Some children suddenly appear convulsions or coma in the early morning, which may also be caused by hypoglycemia. If the child can be woken up under strong stimulation, he should be given a cup of thick sugar water to make his symptoms relieved.
6.If the child’s symptoms are very serious, he should be sent to hospital for examination and treatment as soon as possible.
7.When the blood sugar is lower than normal, some patients have symptoms and some patients have no symptoms. Those without symptoms are mostly seen in infants and children and those who have frequent hypoglycemia for a long time, which is clinically called “asymptomatic hypoglycemia”. The cause of this phenomenon may be related to the damage of the body’s nervous system and the reduced ability of sympathetic nerves to sense hypoglycemia. Patients with this problem should be monitored more closely for blood glucose.
Home diagnosis process of abdominal pain in children
Key points of home care
Abdominal pain is an acute abdominal condition that should be treated with caution by parents, but not overly stressful. If the abdominal pain is caused by an episode of intestinal cramps, the baby can be held straight or placed on the parent’s lap and given an appropriate amount of warm water; let the baby fall asleep in warm conditions. The baby can wake up and return to normal. When abdominal pain is severe, massage the child’s abdomen with warm hands and place a hot water bag on the abdomen to relieve the pain. In addition, abdominal pain caused by roundworms can be relieved or disappeared by gently massaging the roundworms on the abdomen. However, if the abdominal pain is caused by acute inflammation, obstruction or intussusception, it cannot be treated by massage and hot compress. Where abdominal pain appears in the following cases should be attached great importance, immediately send the child to the hospital for further examination and treatment.
1, the abdominal pain is severe but no cause can be found.
2, children with abdominal pain accompanied by fever.
3.Infants with abdominal pain followed by jam-like stools, tar-like stools or bright red blood stools.
4.Children with abdominal muscle tension, rebound pain or lumps felt in the abdomen when touching the abdomen during abdominal pain.
Home care for children with stomach problems
In addition to symptoms such as acid reflux and belching, which are common in patients with general stomach problems, the sensation and performance of stomach pain are very different in children of different ages.
School-age (7-14 years old) children with gastric disease sometimes feel irregular abdominal pain of varying duration, and some ulcers are not always accompanied by a feeling of abdominal pain, which makes early detection and confirmation of the diagnosis more difficult. The child may also feel discomfort below the sternum.
Preschool-age (3 to 6 years old) children have a vague awareness of abdominal pain, but still cannot accurately distinguish the location of the pain. “More than 80% of preschoolers who come to the clinic say they have stomach pain, but upon examination, the pressure point is clearly in the upper abdomen.”
Infants and toddlers (full-term to 3 years old), who are not yet able to express their feelings, will have abdominal pain with crying, poor appetite, anorexia, vomiting, gastrointestinal bleeding, and other symptoms such as black stools and bloody stools.
Common causes of gastric disease in children and family care points.
1, parents infected with H. pylori (Hp), their children’s chance of infection is much higher than other families. Therefore, parents and elders should pay attention to separate food utensils from their children when raising them, and get used to using public chopsticks to hold dishes.
2, less children eat foreign fast food, fried food, cola, coffee, etc., will stimulate the secretion of stomach acid and pepsin, bringing a great burden to the stomach.
3.Change your child’s incorrect eating habits of picky eating, partial eating, anorexia, and irregular eating, and don’t do other things while eating.
4.Educate children to protect their teeth and develop the habit of brushing twice a day, especially the one before going to bed. If food is not chewed in the mouth in place to the stomach, the peristalsis of the stomach and gastric acid secretion will not be able to play a full role, and over time, problems will easily arise. Children should use dental floss instead of toothpicks.
5, abuse of antipyretic drugs damage the gastric mucosa. Antipyretic and analgesic drugs can be taken after meals or with some stomach protectors, avoid giving infants and children medication on an empty stomach.
6, do not add pressure to the child, create a relaxed and mutually understanding family environment. The child’s bad mood, mental problems and learning pressure may lead to stomach symptoms.