Baby diarrhea can be determined by the baby’s stool characteristics, fecal examination results to determine the cause.
1. Stool characteristics: baby stool for paste or contains undigested milk petals, consider indigestion caused by diarrhea; eggdrop soup-like stool or dilute watery stool for viral infections; mucus, pus and blood stool for bacterial infections.
2. Stool examination: Stool examination is commonly used in the clinic and intuitive to determine the nature of diarrhea examination, stool routine shows a large number of leukocytes or pus cells to consider bacillary dysentery; stool routine shows a small number of leukocytes or fat globules to consider viral infections or caused by indigestion; stool routine shows a positive Pseudomonas aeruginosa, to consider mycosis enterocolitica.
Therefore, when the baby has diarrhea, it is necessary to consult a doctor in a timely manner, according to the characteristics of the stool combined with laboratory tests to determine the cause of diarrhea, timely treatment, so as to avoid delaying the disease.