The baby has diarrhea

Infant diarrhea is caused by improper nutrition and some digestive disorders inside and outside the intestines. It mainly occurs in infants under two years old who are fed with breast milk. There are mild to moderate diarrhea and severe diarrhea in life. It is a common symptom in daily life. The main thing in daily life is infection control and home care conditions. Let us briefly introduce it below.

In order to conveniently treat diarrhea, breastfeeding must be reduced in terms of diet. Some rice soup or other complementary foods can be replaced. The main thing is to conduct some dietary or physical observations. It is necessary to observe the baby's mental state and the shape and frequency of stools.

Infant diarrhea

It is a digestive tract dysfunction syndrome caused by improper diet or internal or external intestinal infections, and mostly occurs in infants under 2 years old. When babies are fed breast milk, they will normally defecate one to two more times a day than when they are fed milk, and the stools will be yellow-green and mushy; while those fed milk will have yellow formed stools. Diarrhea refers to the increase in water content in the stool and the deterioration of the stool components. Generally speaking, during diarrhea, the frequency of bowel movements increases, the water content increases, the stool turns green, and the smell becomes sour and smelly. The main symptoms are:

1. Mild symptoms: five to eight bowel movements a day, possibly accompanied by a mild fever or vomiting. The stool is yellow-green, mucus-containing and egg-drop soup-like, accompanied by mild abdominal distension and hyperactive bowel sounds.

2. Moderate diarrhea: Ten bowel movements a day, loose watery stools, sour and smelly, and possible moderate fever.

3. Severe cases: frequent diarrhea, eight to fifteen bowel movements a day, watery and large in volume, with a sour odor, irritability, drowsiness, listlessness, and even coma and convulsions, bloody and mucous stools, sunken anterior fontanelle, dry skin and lips, etc.

4. Some patients may experience obvious dehydration, acidosis, and electrolyte imbalance, such as hypokalemia or hypomagnesemia.

The above are the common symptoms of diarrhea in babies and some treatment methods. Breastfeeding must be reduced, and some rice soup or other complementary foods must be replaced. The main thing is to make some dietary or physical observations. Then you must observe the baby's mental state and the shape and frequency of stools. Therefore, for infant diarrhea, timely treatment, prevention and inspection must be carried out.