Doctors remind acute gastroenteritis need to add salt water. Acute gastroenteritis is a common disease in life. Once infected, it often leads to vomiting and diarrhea, abdominal pain and nausea. At this time, doctors often recommend fasting for half a day or one day, and replenishing more water, especially light saline.
The doctor reminded that patients with acute gastroenteritis do not drink boiled water blindly. It is better to drink electrolyte water solution with appropriate salt and water. If you drink boiled water desperately, it may lead to insufficient electrolyte in the body and cause cramps. The rehydration salts that can be bought in pharmacies can also be bought back to be taken by oneself.
The pathogenic sources of acute gastroenteritis include Salmonella or adenovirus, enterovirus and so on. Patients will have vomiting and diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever and other symptoms, and even severe abdominal spasmodic pain, high fever, chills, anorexia and burnout. Generally speaking, the treatment of acute gastroenteritis takes about three to seven days. In addition to taking medicine and fasting for 12 to 24 hours, the patient may be dehydrated due to continuous pulling. Therefore, sufficient water must be added during fasting.
It is worth noting that in addition to losing water, children also lose electrolytes when they vomit and diarrhea. Therefore, it is better to supplement the "rehydration salt" sold in pharmacies, rather than pure boiled water. Some parents just drink boiled water to their children. As a result, they dilute the electrolyte in their body, causing cramps and other 'water poisoning'. Although the sports drinks on the market also have salt, the sugar content in the drinks is also high, which will make diarrhea children continue to have diarrhea. As for rehydration salt, it contains an appropriate amount of sugar and salt, which can not only replenish the water and salt lost by vomiting and diarrhea, but also avoid persistent diarrhea due to high sugar content.
In addition, patients with acute gastroenteritis in the recovery period of loss of appetite, can eat some light, easy to digest food. Children can eat porridge, pasta, soda biscuit, apple, banana, etc. For children under one year old, infants who take infant formula as their staple food can dilute the milk powder, or switch to a special formula without lactose, and then adjust the milk powder back to its original concentration when the symptoms improve.