Nursing bacillary dysentery in children

Gastro-intestinal diseases

 Gastro-intestinal diseases are the most common infectious diseases in summer, because summer heat easily lead to breeding of bacteria, thereby enabling environment has been infected, all kinds of food-borne bacteria has become a “transit station” under the influence of the two cross – a baby is more susceptible to gastro-intestinal infections.

 Dysentery

 Disease Characteristics

 Shigella dysentery is caused by a common food-borne diseases, fever, abdominal pain, diarrhea, tenesmus and mucus will be characterized by pus and blood, known as dysentery or red white diarrhea, the most prevalent in summer and autumn, a higher prevalence in children . Bacillary dysentery patients and carriers is a source of infection of this disease, dysentery bacilli excreted from the feces, may directly or indirectly (through flies, etc.) contamination of food, water, utensils, everyday utensils and hands, and then transmitted through the mouth to the healthy people.

 Treatment Care

 1. Use of antibiotics

 As oral antibiotics can not be selected when oral administration of intramuscular injection. Parents should observe the patient’s condition can be their own record of baby’s body temperature, respiration, heart rate and looking and so on, observe the stool frequency, nature and quantity, but also should be noted that the amount of urine, stool specimens from time to do routine testing and bacterial cultures, such as found in baby shall promptly notify the doctor of exacerbations.

 2. Isolation disinfection

 Baby suffering from bacillary dysentery, the well disinfection and isolation is the most important. Baby tableware may be disinfected in boiling water in the boiling, the general cook 15 to 20 minutes. Baby’s vomit, faeces to use 5% of the bleaching powder Cheng Qingye soaked and canceled two hours later into the sewer or septic tanks, baby diapers and panties have cooked or soaked in boiling water for 15 minutes and then wash.

 3. Anal Care

 Baby stool with tenesmus, it can allow a direct solution of the stool in the diaper, do not let your baby sit up solution will be, so to prevent anal rectal prolapse. Soap and warm water after each bowel movement wash the baby’s buttocks, and used tannic acid ointment Apply to the skin around the anus to prevent the red buttocks.

 4. To determine the extent diarrhea

 To determine whether there diarrhea caused by dehydration, you can help your baby every day the amount of weight, body weight did not reduce the general principle is that do not have to worry about. If the baby’s weight loss of 5% (for example, the original 10 kg of baby weight, weight loss of 0.5 kg), then a slight dehydration and should promptly contact your doctor. Slowly to reduce weight quickly alleviate the more worrying than that. Baby in one day more than 0.5 kg reduced within a week to reduce 0.5 kilograms to be much more serious.

 Tips: signs of dehydration

 Mild to moderate dehydration

 * 5% weight loss

 * Still loves to play, but quieter than before

 * Dry mouth, fewer tears when crying

 * Reduce the frequency of urination than usual

 Severe dehydration

 * System reduce the 5% ~ 10%

 * Drowsiness or extreme irritability

 * Eye subsidence

 * Pre-fontanelle subsidence (under 1 year old baby)

 * Dry mouth, no tears

 * Dry skin, pale, with fold

 * Frequency of urination reduced (only a few times a day or less)

 * Dark yellow urine

 Active steps to prevent

 1. Must pay attention to food hygiene

 Food must be fresh and clean, do not eat bad, rotten food, the food can not be stored in the refrigerator too long, cooked food should be heated again, eat, raw food and fruits to use the flow of clean water, preferably washed and then scalded with boiling water again re-fed baby. In particular, note that the spread of cold drinks in the bacillary dysentery play an important role. Not let your baby is not easy to eat cold drinks in summer operation, but must pay attention to the health cold, do not let your baby drink stalls on the drink lightly, nor in the street to eat popsicles and ice cream, especially when the wind and landed in the dust on the popsicles are often looked down with a virus.

 2. Eliminate mosquitoes

 Summer home, as far as possible the eradication of mosquitoes, so that after the baby they wash their hands thoroughly before meals, and eat Gaidiao the hands of bad habits.

 3. To prevent transmission of adult

 Adults can also be transmitted bacillary dysentery, but the performance of adult diseases are often very minor, sometimes only a mild diarrhea, but this time also has an infectious bacteria can be transmitted to the baby. Therefore, the adult infectious can not be ignored. If the family has an adult suffering from dysentery should be treated in time and away from the baby to prevent your baby from infection.

 Tips

 If breast-feeding in the baby’s sick do not need to stop. If the feeding formula Zexu to choose according to diarrhea to stop eating. If only mild diarrhea, they should stop giving all of the dairy products, fruit juices and high fat foods. If the diarrhea a serious problem (occur once every 2 hours of water-like, spray feces), to stop giving all of the food, milk, formula milk and fruit juice. The cessation of eating 12 to 24 hours after eating resumed diluted formula, that is, half of the formula, half of the oral electrolyte solution.