Autumn diarrhea does not only occur in autumn.
Autumn diarrhea is the most common kind of infantile diarrhea, which is caused by rotavirus, so it is also called [rotavirus infection]. Autumn diarrhea is high in infants under 1 year old, and children under 5 years old may suffer from this disease.
Adults can also be infected with rotavirus, but basically there are no symptoms, that is to say, adults are often recessive virus disseminators, they do not suffer from the disease, but are easy to infect children.
Although autumn diarrhea is called [autumn diarrhea], it does not mean that it only occurs in autumn, and other seasons may also occur [autumn diarrhea].
Symptoms and Characteristics of Diarrhea in Autumn
The earliest symptoms of diarrhea in autumn are fever, followed by vomiting and diarrhea, and stool is like egg flower soup or clear water.
Suffering from autumn diarrhea, different babies pull different times a day, some pull five or six times, some pull more than a dozen times.
For breast-fed babies, it is normal to pull five or six times a day, so it is not only necessary to judge whether the baby has diarrhea according to the number of times the baby defecates, but also to judge whether the baby has diarrhea according to the shape of the baby’s defecates and other symptoms of the baby.
If you can’t judge, collect stool and go to the hospital for a doctor to test and diagnose it to see if there is rotavirus in the stool.
Diarrhea Savior: Oral Rehydration Salt Ⅲ
Autumn diarrhea is a self-healing disease if treated in time-[timely treatment], which refers to timely correction of dehydration.
Diarrhea in autumn is easy to cause dehydration. When the baby starts to suffer from the disease, it will dehydrate quickly within 6 hours.
1. Oral rehydration salt is the first choice for mild to moderate dehydration of babies.
For babies with mild to moderate dehydration, the preferred treatment method is rehydration, while the preferred rehydration method is oral rehydration salt.
Manifestations of mild and moderate dehydration include dry mouth, chapped lips, oliguria, or dark yellow urine color, poor skin elasticity, less tears when crying, etc.
2. Types and usage of oral rehydration salts
In foreign countries, oral rehydration salts are over-the-counter drugs, and children can choose a lot of tastes and varieties, which are readily available in general supermarkets and pharmacies. However, in the domestic market, there are currently only two oral rehydration salts shared by adults and infants: oral rehydration salt II and oral rehydration salt III, which are not easy to buy in general pharmacies and have to be opened in hospitals.
Oral rehydration salt III can be given directly to children after a pack of 250ml water is mixed according to the method indicated in the instructions. However, the osmotic pressure of oral rehydration salt II is a bit high, and it is required to dilute 1.5 times (i.e. 750 milliliters of water are added to one pack instead of 500 milliliters of water in the instructions) when taken by children, so as to be consistent with the newly recommended hypotonic standard of the World Health Organization.
3. How Feeds Baby Oral Salt Supplement?
When feeding your child oral rehydration salt, you should follow the principle of a small amount of rehydration salt many times. It is best to feed it once every 2-3 minutes, 10-20 milliliters each time. In this way, you can supplement 150-300 milliliters of liquid to your child every hour, and you can correct his dehydration in about 3-4 hours.
Through the method of supplementing oral rehydration salts for the baby, it can effectively prevent the baby from dehydration and prevent the baby from being sent to the hospital for infusion due to severe dehydration. However, if the baby has diarrhea at the same time, vomiting is severe, anuria, abdominal distension or dehydration is aggravated, and other symptoms should be immediately sent to the hospital for infusion.
During diarrhea, no fasting is required.
For children’s diarrhea, besides oral rehydration salts can be used to help them correct dehydration, their diet should also be adjusted.
When the baby has diarrhea, whether to eat or not is a big problem that baffles parents.
In the past, there was a view that fasting should not eat or drink when diarrhea occurs, so that diarrhea will be alleviated. Because the more you eat and drink, the more frequent diarrhea will become.
The current view is that babies should continue their original diet during diarrhea, but do not eat new foods or raw and cold foods, and do not force them to eat. For example, they should avoid eating foods high in fat, salt or sugar, such as chicken soup and fruit juice, which will aggravate the symptoms of dehydration.
What kind of food should they choose? Yogurt, fruits, vegetables, porridge and other foods are all fine.
Can baby still eat milk when diarrhea occurs?
Mothers often ask me through microblogs: Is it because babies have diarrhea that they can no longer eat breast milk? No more formula?
At present, for the treatment of diarrhea, the recommendations on breast milk are as follows: Babies who are breast-fed before diarrhea should continue to eat breast milk even if they have diarrhea. Not only can he continue to eat, but he should also be allowed to eat more. Because letting him continue to eat breast milk is to help him supplement energy.
Do you want to continue to use formula milk for babies with diarrhea? This problem depends on whether the baby’s diarrhea is caused by lactose intolerance.
If so, the formula can be replaced with lactose-free formula. At present, some doctors also suggest that the formula can be replaced with lactose-free formula for a period of time at this stage to protect the intestinal tract, and then the original formula can be replaced after diarrhea symptoms disappear.
Take care of good hands, mouth and diapers and say [no] to rotavirus.
Children’s autumn diarrhea is caused by rotavirus infection, so in order to prevent the baby from suffering from infantile diarrhea, it is necessary to prevent the baby from contracting this virus.
Rotavirus belongs to enterovirus, it is spread by hand and mouth, so if the baby comes into contact with people infected with rotavirus, or objects contacted by people infected with rotavirus, it may be infected with this virus. Therefore, parents should wash their hands frequently for the baby at ordinary times. Let him wash his hands before meals and after defecation, do not eat raw and cold food, and regularly disinfect the baby’s tableware and toys.
In the epidemic season, try to avoid allowing your baby to eat one bite with other babies, and I will share food one bite at a time, because it is more likely to infect your baby with rotavirus.
In addition, parents should also pay attention to the hygiene of their baby’s diapers and avoid using public diaper changing tables. When they have to use them, they should disinfect the diaper table with alcohol wet wipes before changing diapers for their baby.
This article is taken from the book “Ji Lianmei Talk: Chinese Should Use Drugs This Way”, which is reprinted by the author’s authorized clove garden.