What should I do if my child has diarrhea and all he excretes is water?

If a child has severe diarrhea symptoms, sometimes all he or she will excrete is water. In this case, you should replenish water in time to prevent the child from having electrolyte imbalance. You should follow the doctor's advice on diet. Sometimes you can temporarily fast. In more serious cases, you should perform a titration of normal saline solution. In addition, you should pay attention to personal hygiene and get enough rest. Generally speaking, after conditioning and treatment, people can recover relatively well.

What should I do if my child has diarrhea and all he excretes is water?

1 Adjusting diet is one of the main measures to treat diarrhea in children

For breastfeeding infants, mothers should try to eat less greasy food, drink more water to dilute the milk, and shorten each breastfeeding time to reduce the gastrointestinal burden. For infants who are artificially fed, stop feeding them milk and feed them skim milk, yogurt or rice soup instead. Patients with severe vomiting and diarrhea should fast for 6 to 8 hours and receive intravenous fluids during the fasting period. When resuming diet, it should be done gradually and the intake and output should be recorded in detail.

2. Record the frequency, amount and nature of the child's bowel movements, urine and vomiting. Clean the buttocks after each bowel movement to prevent diaper dermatitis.

3. Keep warm

Children with diarrhea are often prone to dehydration, and due to diet control, they are prone to chills. If they have cold limbs and their body temperature does not rise, you can use a hot water bottle to keep warm, but be careful to prevent burns.

4. Ensure bedside isolation

Wash your hands carefully before and after caring for a sick child to prevent cross infection.

5. Pay attention to oral hygiene

Children with diarrhea sometimes develop thrush due to long-term use of antibiotics, which may cause mold to grow in the mouth. Therefore, they should be fed more boiled water to clean the mouth. If vomiting occurs, cotton dipped in warm water can be used to gently wipe the mouth. If thrush has occurred, 1% gentian violet solution can be applied to the affected area.

6. Closely monitor changes in the condition and pay attention to whether dehydration improves.

Pay attention to changes in general condition, consciousness, spirit, complexion, limb temperature, pulse, respiration and other vital signs.

Pediatric diarrhea is one of the diseases with a higher incidence rate in infancy and childhood. It is common in infants and young children under 3 years old and is more common in summer and autumn. Because the digestive system of infants and young children is immature and the digestive enzyme activity is low, diarrhea is often caused by digestive dysfunction due to changes in the external or internal environment.