Autumn, children vulnerable to diarrhea disturbance

According to reports, the world’s children under age 5 each year about 130 million rotavirus diarrhea occurred. Although the incidence of rotavirus diarrhea can all year round, but there are clear seasonal peak of infection in autumn and winter, it is also known as autumn diarrhea. Autumn incidence of diarrhea more in October, 11 ~ December is the peak of incidence. The virus mainly affects children, especially 6 months to 2 years of age.

Autumn incidence of diarrhea with a sudden high fever, accompanied by runny nose, cough, throat pain and other symptoms of a cold, half a day or so there will be diarrhea, stool, like egg soup, diluted with water and floating patches of white or yellow dung quality, several times a day , no special smell and mucus pus and blood, stool tests normal or a little of the white blood cells, while accompanied by vomiting, abdominal pain, gastrointestinal-type easily be mistaken for flu.

Since the fall of diarrhea is a viral infection, so antibiotics harm than good. Doctors now use more methods of oral rehydration symptomatic treatment to correct dehydration. Parents can also be a number of their own red light brine your child to drink. If the child oral rehydration is not tolerated, or diarrhea, increased the degree, they should bring the child to the hospital with intravenous infusion method of rehydration. At the same time, traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of diarrhea in autumn has its unique effect, through the dialectical medication, not only in a relatively short period of time to stop diarrhea, and can effectively relieve runny nose, cough, throat pain, vomiting, abdominal pain and other symptoms.

For the autumn diarrhea children, proper home care is very important.

Some parents think that children diarrhea, digestive function is not good, the children eat less, the doctor reminded: this is wrong. If the child has an appetite, they should give them something to eat, eat faeces increased after it anyway. Although the diarrhea, but it is still a large number of nutrients can be absorbed will be lost because of diarrhea, a large number of nutrients, so eating is also necessary to supplement nutrition, to benefit the rehabilitation of children with diarrhea.

Diarrhea in children with the right care approach as follows:

1. Formerly breast-feeding to continue breast-feeding;

2. Originally mixed feeding, and may suspend the feeding of milk, single-breast-feeding;

3. Originally artificial feeding, the milk can be washed with water or dilute rice soup more;

4. For older children, should give them to eat light, digestible food, such as porridge, bad patches, especially drink gruel, which can supplement the water lost by diarrhea.

5. Because of oral rehydration salts are generally fed at home service, so parents must understand that the amount would not be appropriate too much too little, too much can cause edema; too little as not to prevent or correct dehydration.

6. Parents should also observe and record the child’s stool frequency, quantity, nature (water, egg soup-like, with or without mucus, etc.), whether the reduction in urine, vomiting frequency and the amount of vomit in order to give doctors to provide accurate information.

    7. Do the hip in children’s care, to prevent the hip infection.