Autumn diarrhea, named after the autumn and winter season with high incidence from September to January of the following year, is the most common infectious diarrhea in young children. Although the high incidence occurs in infants aged 6 to 24 months, children under the age of 5 may suffer from the disease. Generally, the younger the age, the more serious the symptoms will often be.
For autumn diarrhea, I believe many parents are familiar with it. Even their babies have been tricked. The babies have diarrhea frequently. Parents don’t say how distressed they are when looking at it.
If the baby has autumn diarrhea, how should parents take care of it?
Today, Dr. Clove invited Hu Xinhua. She told us about her experience in taking care of the baby with diarrhea.
Does autumn diarrhea have what symptoms?
From August 26 to September 2, my child suffered from virus infection diarrhea lasting 7 days.
On the first day, the sudden occurrence of high fever was accompanied by nausea and vomiting. On the first night, the little fellow began to show symptoms of diarrhea. From the second day to the fourth day, repeated high fever and diarrhea occurred more than ten or twenty times a day. On the fifth day, the fever finally decreased and the number of diarrhea dropped to about 10. The number of diarrhea dropped to almost 7 on the sixth day. On the seventh day, diarrhea occurred only four times. On the eighth day, the little fellow finally recovered.
Clove doctor reminded: Occurrence of autumn diarrhea, baby will usually have fever, vomit after diarrhea symptoms, diarrhea poop is usually egg flower soup or yellow water sample, sometimes with a small amount of mucus. If not handled in time, some children may dehydrate quickly in 6 hours.
How to deal with autumn diarrhea?
When I found that the little guy had symptoms of fever, vomiting and diarrhea, I prepared the following things to deal with:
1. Antipyretics
I am preparing Merrill Lynch, ibuprofen, thinking that if the child’s body temperature goes up and he is very uncomfortable, I will give him some medicine to reduce the fever.
As a mother who has seen a lot of popular parenting science, I know that although pediatricians usually use 38.5 ° C as the dividing point between taking antipyretics and not taking antipyretics, However, the purpose of taking antipyretic drugs is to reduce the discomfort caused by fever. If the child feels uncomfortable due to fever, he can consider taking medicine for the child, but if the child eats, sleeps and plays as usual, he is also in good spirits. Even if the body temperature exceeds 38.5 C, antipyretic drugs are not necessary.
Dr. Clove Reminds: For children, Commonly used antipyretic drugs are acetaminophen (available for infants over 3 months old, If the child suffers from liver disease, Ask your doctor if it is safe to take acetaminophen) and ibuprofen (available for infants over 6 months old, If your child suffers from kidney disease, asthma, ulcer or other chronic diseases, you need to consult your doctor if it is safe. If your child suffers from dehydration or severe vomiting, you also need to take drugs under the guidance of your doctor. Parents are best to choose only one antipyretic when giving your child, and take it according to the doctor’s advice or drug instructions.
2. Oral rehydration salts
Children can’t stop pulling and dehydration is easy to occur, so I prepared oral rehydration salts.
Dr. Clove warned: When children suffer from high fever, diarrhea is easy to cause dehydration and electrolyte disorders, which may be fatal to children. Therefore, correcting dehydration and electrolyte disorders is the first priority.
Parents can buy oral rehydration salts containing electrolytes in pharmacies, which contain sodium, potassium, glucose and other components, which can effectively prevent and treat mild dehydration, maintain the balance of water and electrolyte in the body, and relieve diarrhea. If the baby’s dehydration cannot be relieved, you need to go to the hospital as soon as possible.
In addition, parents are not recommended to make their own electrolyte solution, including various sugar saline solutions, unless there is guidance from pediatricians and appropriate tools.
3. Hip Cream
During the days when the little fellow had the heaviest diarrhea, he had to pull it more than ten or twenty times a day. The little fart suffered a great test. After each diarrhea, I would immediately clean him with warm water, gently dry or dry him, and then apply hip cream.
Doctor Clove reminded: Children have frequent diarrhea, which may cause red buttocks, ulceration and even running water if they do not pay attention to it. Therefore, the most important thing is to keep children’s buttocks clean and dry so as to effectively avoid red buttocks.
Hip cream contains zinc oxide, vaseline and other ingredients. Applying hip cream to your baby can avoid direct skin irritation such as feces and urine and protect your baby’s buttocks.
4. Probiotic preparation
Acute diarrhea causes the loss of a large number of probiotics in the intestinal tract, resulting in imbalance of intestinal flora. Supplementing some probiotics can help the intestinal tract to re-establish flora balance and relieve diarrhea, so I have also prepared some probiotic preparations.
Dr. Clove reminded: So far, there is a lot of evidence that probiotics can improve the symptoms caused by viral gastroenteritis. Some studies show that the early use of probiotics in diarrhea caused by viral gastroenteritis can reduce the course of disease by one day.
In addition to probiotics, you can also supplement some prebiotics to your children, which can help probiotics multiply and further increase the effect of probiotics. Breast milk, whole grains such as wheat bran and barley, leguminous plants such as beans, some vegetables (spinach and onions) and fruits (strawberries and bananas) are all good sources of prebiotics.
However, it should be noted that probiotics are recommended to be used under the guidance of professional doctors and should not be used for a long time.
Do you also need to pay attention to what during diarrhea?
Step 1: Eat as usual
The current view holds that it is good to continue the original eating habits during the baby’s diarrhea, but it is best to avoid eating food that has not been eaten before or raw and cold food, and if the child has no appetite, do not force him to eat.
Step 2: Don’t use antibiotics indiscriminately
Autumn diarrhea is caused by viral infection, and antibiotics are used to treat microbial infection. Do not give children antibiotics unless the examination confirms bacterial infection.
If bacterial infection is confirmed, antibiotics must be used according to the course of treatment and do not stop taking drugs at will.
3. Pay attention to the situation of children,
Diarrhea in autumn is a disease that can be cured by oneself. Generally speaking, the vast majority of children will recover in 3-8 days as long as they are properly cared for.
However, if the child’s symptoms are not relieved or even aggravated, or if there are severe dehydration, high fever, hematochezia, persistent vomiting, and parents feel very serious uncertainty, they need to see a doctor in time.