Tips to relieve baby's diarrhea

For babies, since some organs or structures are not fully developed or mature, there are very strict requirements on their diet and other living environment. Therefore, parents in the life center must pay attention to the baby's eating habits and the health of the surrounding environment. So let’s take a look at some tips on how to relieve your baby’s diarrhea.

1. What to do if your child has diarrhea

First, replenish water. Children are small but have a very active metabolism. If the diarrhea lasts for a long time or is severe, they can easily become dehydrated. Even adults can easily become dehydrated if they have diarrhea, so the first thing to do is to replenish water while also replenishing salt and electrolytes. A better way is to feed your child more water or rice soup and add a small spoonful of salt. If the child thinks the taste is not good, you can add a little sugar.

Second, dietary adjustment. Children should take as little medicine as possible. If they are fed like medicine bottles from a young age, one can imagine their resistance when they grow up. Start with your diet and simply prevent diarrhea. Feed less high-nutrition and stimulating foods. Some parents are afraid that their children will have diarrhea and lose nutrition, so they supplement their children with a lot of high-nutrition foods, such as milk, fish, meat, etc. However, they do not realize that doing so will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract and make the diarrhea last for a long time.

Third, avoid the following foods. A detailed introduction to several types of food that babies should avoid during diarrhea: first, irritating food; second, food that is prone to bloating, such as milk, soy products, sweet potatoes, etc.; third, food that promotes intestinal peristalsis and bowel movement, such as bananas, yams, celery, and leeks; fourth, high-fat and high-protein food, such as eggs, animal oils, fried foods, cream products, etc.

Fourth, mild drug treatment. First, supplementation of intestinal probiotics. Diarrhea can cause intestinal flora imbalance, leading to the loss of some probiotics in the intestine. Supplementation of probiotics is beneficial to recovery. Secondly, montmorillonite powder is a drug that simply protects the gastrointestinal mucosa and can be used appropriately. One thing to note is to use antibiotics and antidiarrheals with caution.

Fifth, zinc supplementation treatment. Why do we need to talk about zinc supplementation separately? Everyone should know the importance of zinc to children. Diarrhea can easily lead to zinc deficiency in the body, which directly affects physical and intellectual development. For infants, it can cause developmental delay, organ dysplasia, intellectual disabilities, etc. Zinc supplementation can also enhance resistance and facilitate recovery.

2. What should children eat when they have diarrhea?

1. First of all, you must stop eating dairy products, including breast milk, soy milk, etc. Only by stopping the consumption of these things can you prevent the diarrhea from continuing or worsening, and help the formation of normal stool.

2. Rice soup. This is very useful. You can add more water when cooking porridge and use the extra soup. You can also cook it specifically by putting a little rice in the pot and cooking until it becomes a thin paste. I asked why? But my sister said that my mother taught her, and my mother said that my grandmother taught her. It is an old folk remedy and I don’t know the reason.

3. Egg yolk. You can eat an egg yolk every day to harden the stool, and it can also replenish energy for children when combined with rice soup.