How to deal with children with diarrhea in summer
Do not simply believe that a child diarrhea, fasting is necessary; needed in the diagnosis of clear-cut cases, under the guidance of a doctor and reasonable enough, standardized use of antibiotics; not an easy to use anti-diarrheal medicine; attention to replenish moisture, to prevent severe dehydration. As temperatures rise, but also to the high incidence of infantile diarrhea season.
Why does a high incidence of infantile diarrhea in summer?
There are three major reasons: First, as the gastrointestinal tract in children are not mature, less stomach acid, sterilizing poor, if the summer, eating too much drink, diluted acid, leading to acid bacteria is easy to get past that hurdle, and enter the intestine caused by diarrhea; second, children in a variety of digestive enzymes in the gastrointestinal tract less food is not conducive to digestion, easy to cause indigestion, leading to diarrhea; third, infants and young children grow rapidly, the need for adequate nutrition, the gastrointestinal tract in children burden is relatively heavy, high incidence of digestive dysfunction. Summer temperature is high, bacteria easy to breed, but also increase the infection of one of the reasons.
Diarrhea, especially in summer, mainly bacterial infection, a small number of viral infections, in children of all age groups are easy to disease. Children can be slow onset may be acute and severe, there may be convulsions, shock, encephalopathy, myocardial injury and so on. Once a child infectious diarrhea occurs, parents should never self-medication, it is timely to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment, in the rational use of drugs under the guidance of medical staff to prevent and correct dehydration, acidosis and electrolyte imbalance, make the necessary symptomatic treatment.
There are several considerations we must bear in mind that the parents:
One, do not simply believe that fasting is necessary
Summer, a 2-year-old children with diarrhea in infants and young children are more common. Cause diarrhea in children infected with the most common pediatric gastrointestinal function also imperfect, for breast milk or some food allergies can also cause diarrhea. Some parents saw their children diarrhea, felt that “eat Dora, do not eat do not pull”, it will try to be smart against their children fasting. As everyone knows, diarrhea during fasting, starvation state but will also increase peristalsis Ershi diarrhea increase, some will occur in children with malnutrition or growth retardation. To encourage children to eat, skimmed milk, rice porridge are all good choices. For small infants should continue breastfeeding or diluted milk to feed 2-3 days, then gradually returning to a normal diet.
2, the correct use of antibiotics
Diarrheal diseases are a group of children with multiple causes, diseases caused by multiple factors, infection is the main reason, its pathogenic bacteria, viruses, fungi and so on, need for anti-infective therapy, but the broad-spectrum antimicrobial drugs, in particular long-term use of antibiotics will lead to intestinal flora disorder, so that increased or persistent diarrhea, unhealed. Therefore, the need to diagnose specific circumstances, under the guidance of a doctor and reasonable enough, standardized use of antibiotics.
Third, the use of antidiarrheal drugs are not easily
Diarrhea in children, appropriate to use point of anti-diarrheal drugs, to prevent excessive loss of body fluids is useful, but due to diarrhea are common symptoms of many diseases, so treatment should be targeted at the causes of medication, diarrhea, do not immediately see a use only laxatives, abuse of antidiarrheal drugs, not only fail to cure some diarrhea, on the contrary, there are certain side effects in children, especially in small infants.
4, pay attention to replenish moisture, prevent serious dehydration
Most of very rapid onset of infantile diarrhea, frequent diarrhea, the body will quickly lose the moisture and nutrients, causing acute dehydration. The water is an important life-sustaining substances, age, smaller, water accounts for the greater proportion of body weight. Children with weight loss is equivalent to 5% of the water, you can dehydration symptoms (spirit dejected, thirst, irritability, weakness, decreased urine output, skin elasticity and poor); more than 15% there will be convulsions, coma, life-threatening. Thus, parents should continue to let children eat at this time, with particular attention to fluid intake. Only early prevention and correct dehydration, can the children back to health as soon as possible.
In addition, should develop more sanitary habits to prevent childhood diarrhea. The summer the prevention of infectious diarrhea in children, the general principle is: pay attention to cultivating the children’s good health habits to prevent the disease from the mouth. They wash their hands after going to the time, do not drink unboiled water, do not eat spoiled food, raw fruits should be washed. In particular, would like to stress that the fridge is not “safe”, placed in the refrigerator of food pathogens may still be contaminated. In addition, with the popularity of home water dispenser, due to the absence of regular cleaning or washing is not complete, as a children’s summer new source of infection in diarrheal diseases. Also note that maggot fly disinfestation eliminate and prevent food contamination. A family member or child collective bodies of patients and carriers appear to be as far as possible early discovery, early diagnosis, early isolation and early treatment.