When autumn comes, we have to talk about a common disease in this season – autumn diarrhea. If it happens, what should we do about it? Autumn diarrhea has this name because it often occurs in autumn, but it is not limited to autumn, in fact, it can happen all year round, but autumn is its season, it is essentially an enterovirus infection called rotavirus, which often leads to diarrhea in our children, and most of them have watery diarrhea, characterized by egg-flake soup-like changes in the stool, the number of times can be as many as 10 times a day. Of course, it may also be accompanied by fever, vomiting, little urination, poor spirits, and in severe cases, it can cause power intestinal obstruction. But sometimes, rotavirus does not only invade the digestive system, it can also invade the heart muscle causing myocarditis, spread to the nervous system causing viral encephalitis, mild gastroenteritis and benign convulsions in infants and young children (multiple convulsions may occur in a short period of time, more than 10 episodes in a single course of illness), etc. Speaking of which, many parents may be nervous that an enterovirus infection can cause so many problems, but we should not Too much anxiety, in time these diseases occur, often the end is good. Let’s move on to the issue of treatment, with the focus still on the fall diarrhea itself. The focus of treatment is on rehydration, correcting dehydration and electrolyte disturbances due to diarrhea. If the child does not suffer from frequent vomiting, intestinal obstruction, diarrhea is not very frequent, the degree of dehydration is not severe (mild to moderate), the mental state is average or good, and the child is able to eat normally, oral rehydration solution can be preferred. If your child is severely dehydrated, with no or little urine, poor mental status, irritability, lethargy, dry skin, no tears, and inability to eat water, you must be hospitalized as soon as possible to replenish the appropriate electrolyte fluid according to the specific electrolyte test results to quickly correct dehydration and maintain the stability of the child’s internal environment. We must pay attention to the problem of rehydration, knowing that at the beginning of the country, because rehydration therapy was not popular, many children lost their lives because of dehydration and electrolyte disorders that were not corrected in time. Of course, the speed of rehydration, the total amount of fluids and the choice of fluid tension need to be taken into account, and our doctors need to give professional guidance. Also since it is a viral infection, we can at the same time choose some antiviral drugs to intervene, although the effect is not yet certain. During the diarrhea period, we can give oral intestinal probiotics, appropriate zinc supplementation (to shorten the duration of diarrhea), and during the recovery period of the disease, we can apply appropriate laxatives or antidiarrheal agents, such as Dulapo, Similac, etc. Finally, we will talk about some issues of attention when rotavirus causes enteritis combined with myocarditis, viral encephalitis, mild gastroenteritis and benign convulsions in infants and children. When combined with myocarditis, attention should be paid to monitoring the child’s cardiac function. When combined with viral encephalitis, mild gastroenteritis and benign convulsions in infants and young children, we should not be too nervous, as long as we do a good job of symptomatic treatment, such as lowering cranial pressure, anticonvulsant treatment, the application of some nerve-nourishing drugs, timely rehydration, maintaining electrolyte balance, so that the child smoothly through the acute phase of the disease, generally does not leave residual symptoms. After the treatment, we also have to talk about prevention, that is, we can take some measures to minimize the chance of illness. Since autumn diarrhea is caused by viral infections, and viruses often invade the body through the fecal-oral route, we should first do a good job of hand and mouth hygiene for our children and ourselves, that is, wash our hands regularly, especially before and after meals, and disinfect our children’s dishes regularly, especially after contact with children who have diarrhea. The prevention work done by both us and our children will be relatively better and will reduce the possibility of the disease to some extent. Best of all, I wish our children a healthy and happy growth through the next beautiful autumn.