autumn is coming quietly. With the change of seasons, the phenomenon of children suffering from 'autumn diarrhea' is becoming more and more common. So how to prevent autumn diarrhea? For children, autumn diarrhea is the most common disease in autumn, so parents must be careful!
Diarrhea symptoms in autumn
1. Acute onset, early often accompanied by cold symptoms, such as cough, nasal congestion, runny nose, the vast majority of children will also have fever, generally low fever, rarely high fever.
2. Half of the children will vomit. Early vomiting was prior to diarrhea, frequent vomiting, vomiting stomach contents and milk, vomiting lasted for 2-3 days.
3. Diarrhea began to appear in the next 24 hours, and the number of stools of the baby increased, about 10 times a day. If it is more than 3 times, diarrhea in autumn should be considered. The stools are thin, like milky white, yellow or green egg blossom soup, occasionally with a little mucus or pus blood, without special smell; the duration of diarrhea can last for about 3-5 days or 1 week, and a few can last for 3 weeks.
4. Due to frequent diarrhea and vomiting, less food intake, severe patients may have dehydration, acidosis and electrolyte disorder, such as obvious thirst, decreased urine volume, restlessness, mental fatigue, drowsiness, unconsciousness, etc. If it is not treated in time, hypovolemic shock may occur and life-threatening.
Correct prevention
1. If it's serious, get medical attention. Children with severe diarrhea and dehydration should be treated in children's Hospital in time, and if necessary, they should be hospitalized or treated with infusion.
2. Do not take antidiarrheal. Like other kinds of diarrhea, infants who have autumn diarrhea cannot take antidiarrheal drugs for adults, which is very dangerous for infants. Physical therapy can be used to alleviate diarrhea in children.
3. Adjust your diet. Children with severe vomiting need to fast for 4-6 hours before gradually increasing feeding. We should reduce the times of feeding milk, feed sugar and salt water, and reduce the burden of gastrointestinal tract.
4. Prevent dehydration. According to the principle of a small number of times to increase drinking water for children. When the child has dehydration symptoms, or mild or moderate dehydration, oral rehydration salt should be given to him, and infusion is required for moderate or severe dehydration or diarrhea.
5. Replace the bottle with a bowl or spoon. Milk bottles, especially rubber nipples, are easy to contaminate, not easy to clean and disinfect, and easy to contaminate, leading to diarrhea in children. Using bowls and spoons, there is less chance of contamination than bottles.
Diarrhea recipes
1. Skimmed yoghurt. Add 4 ml of 36% fermenting acid solution or 10 drops of 85% lactic acid to 100 ml of cold milk without fat, and the cow's sacs will be fermented by lactobacilli to become yoghurt.
2. Apple puree. Cut the apples and mash them into purees. Apple contains fruit acid, which can absorb toxin water and tannin. It has astringent effect. It is suitable for children with diarrhea and dyspepsia in autumn.