Prevention of child diarrhea

The prevention of diarrheal diseases in children should be cause to proceed, diet and climate factors, the main reason for non-infectious diarrhea. Therefore, a reasonable feeding and intensive care is to prevent non-infectious diarrhea, the major initiatives.

(A) reasonable feeding:

Metabolic exuberant children, especially newborns and infants, whose intestinal charged with the rapid growth and development of the necessary nutrients that heavy burden, and the development of the gastrointestinal tract is not yet mature, therefore, could easily lead to improper feeding gastrointestinal dysfunction. To achieve a reasonable feeding should pay attention to the following:

1, to promote breastfeeding:

And as far as possible to promote breastfeeding, is well known that breast milk nutrients best suited to the nutritional needs of newborns and infants, especially breast milk also contains other formula or milk can not provide the immune substances, can increase the baby’s resistance, and breast milk also has a fresh, sanitary, sterile, and suitable temperature, etc., the most suitable for baby food.

2, note that milk temperature suitable for:

If you can not breastfeed due to various factors, artificial feeding or mixed feeding baby milk should pay attention to the temperature, not hot or too cold, warm milk, there is a simple and easy to master the test skills, that is the “back of the hand-aware Law”, that is, a few drops of milk in her mother’s back of the hand, if the back of the hand felt hot, then the milk temperature is too high, feel the cold, then the milk temperature is too low, not hot milk temperature is just not cool.

3, reasonable and complementary feeding

1) Add the timing of complementary feeding:

Add food supplement should not be too early, within a month within three months in particular, baby, do not add any starchy food, so when the baby’s lack of intestinal amylase, if you add starchy food can lead to baby diarrhea. 4-5 months to start complementary feeding.

2) Add the progress of complementary feeding:

Should be gradual and should be less to multiple, from thin to thick, from thin to thick, from one to multiple, from simple to complex. Add a food supplement, such as after the baby can not adapt to, can lead to diarrhea.

3) Add complementary feeding suitability judgments:

Through observation of your baby’s appetite, vomiting, abdominal distention, bowel and stool, and so on to determine whether the baby to adapt to the added amount of food supplement or added. To do is: add a food supplement or a food supplement to increase the amount of time, should be observed for three days, such as the baby’s appetite, vomiting, abdominal distention, bowel and stool, and so on are normal, then your baby to adapt to the kinds of food supplement or the increase in volume, if any one of the above-mentioned exceptions, it may be unable to meet baby at this time to stop adding to the variety of food supplement or reduce the dosage.

4) Note allergens:

Some babies diarrhea is caused by allergies, as long as the identification of allergens, do not eat lead to baby food allergies on it.

(B) intensive care:

1, note that a moderate warmth. Changeable weather changes in a timely manner, if not pay attention to the baby’s clothes, make babies because of cold and diarrhea. To determine the suitability of baby clothes easy way is to look at the temperature of baby’s hands and feet, if the baby, hands and feet are hot, palms sweat, baby wearing a thick description may be less appropriate clothing, such as the hands and feet baby fever, palms sweat, indicating baby dressed just like baby hands and feet are cold, indicating wear a little less need to add baby clothes.

2, diarrhea caused by certain diseases, baby, pay attention to treatment of the primary disease.

3, but also to the baby to develop good health habits to prevent your baby from the source, the chance of infection. We must cultivate the habit of washing hands before meals and after, but parents have to do a good job of food, utensils disinfection work, do not let your baby eat unhygienic food. Babies have the habit of sucking fingers, so they should pay attention to keep hands clean.

4, the parents Do not give your baby medication, especially antibiotics. If your baby is not comfortable to go to hospital. If the casual baby with antibiotics, especially long-term a large number of applications, make baby imbalance of intestinal flora, resulting in baby diarrhea.