What are complications of infantile diarrhea?

Diarrhea often leads to malnutrition, a variety of vitamin deficiency and multiple infections.

1. Alimentary Tract Infection:

Extraluminal infection may cause diarrhea, but also often due to diarrhea and low body resistance to infection.

Are common purulent skin infections, urinary tract infections, otitis media, upper respiratory tract infections, bronchitis, pneumonia, phlebitis and sepsis.

Occasionally complicated by myocarditis, viral enteritis.

2. Thrush:

Protracted course of disease or malnutrition in children complicated by the original thrush, especially in long-term use of broad-spectrum antibiotics for more, if not withdrawal, fungi can invade and gastro-intestinal, and even cause systemic fungal diseases.

3. Toxic hepatitis:

Diarrhea, jaundice may appear in the course of the disease, more common in old malnourished children. May be caused by E. coli enteritis, complicated by E. coli sepsis, leading to toxic hepatitis.

Diarrhea soon after the condition worsened soon after the death of jaundice. However, if early detection and timely injection of polymyxin, ampicillin, or carbenicillin, most curable.

4. Malnutrition and vitamin deficiency:

Diarrhea protracted course of time, or repeated several times fasting, long-term calorie deficiency, easily lead to malnutrition, anemia and Victoria A lack of. Jiuxie-induced liver damage, reducing the absorption of vitamin K and prothrombin to reduce the extent which rendered bleeding.

5. Others:

Dehydration when heavy acute renal failure. In addition, there: toxic intestinal paralysis, intestinal bleeding, intestinal perforation, intussusception, and gastric distension

Can also cause acute heart failure due to improper infusion, high-sodium, or hyponatremia, or hyperkalemia. Baby care and ill-vomiting may cause suffocation.

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