What to do if your baby has stomach flu?

Gastrointestinal cold is a cold caused by a virus. It is very common in summer. Infants and young children have weak immunity and are also prone to gastrointestinal colds. It is important for babies to rest when they have gastrointestinal colds. You should follow the doctor's instructions for specific measures, and dietary adjustment is also very important.

1. Infants' gastrointestinal colds are related to the mother's diet and are also caused by the child catching a little cold. The mother should eat hotter food, give the child some Huoxiang Zhengqi pills for treatment, and also use some Hutong and Jianwei Xiaoshi tablets to keep the abdomen warm.

2. There is a little trick to treat gastrointestinal colds in babies. You can massage the baby's belly button five times in a clockwise direction and five times in a counterclockwise direction. Massage more often to regulate gastrointestinal motility. Then give the baby compound lactic acid bacteria, half a pill, three times a day. If the diarrhea is still severe, add some Smecta, half a bag twice a day. Pay attention to keeping the baby's abdomen and back warm when sleeping, give the baby more boiled water, and feed the baby a little hunger, but not too hungry, as being too hungry will be counterproductive.

3. Emphasize continuing to eat and replenish what is consumed during the disease to shorten the recovery time after diarrhea. Those who are accustomed to a dairy diet can stop milk feeding and switch to milk substitutes, fermented yogurt, or lactose-free formula milk, which may alleviate diarrhea and shorten the course of the disease.

4. Oral rehydration:

(1) 500ml rice soup (or boiled water) (a bottle of wine containing one pound) plus 1.75g ​​fine salt (half the iron cap of a beer bottle) to prevent dehydration: 20-40ml/kg, finished within 4 hours, and can be taken orally at any time thereafter, give as much as the patient can drink.

(2) Purchase oral rehydration salts at a pharmacy and add 500 ml of water to one bag. Use ORS solution to correct dehydration. The dosage for the first 4 hours is: 75ml×body weight in kg=fluid replacement volume in ml. Then re-evaluate whether there is dehydration. If dehydration is still present, ORS solution can be given orally. If the dehydration is corrected, self-prepared liquid can be taken orally at any time.