Can I drink glucose if I have diarrhea?

Glucose is an important substance in the human body because the sugar contained in glucose is mainly added to people's metabolism, and glucose is also converted into energy to provide to the human body. Glucose is also sold in pharmacies because it can be consumed appropriately when people are too weak or drunk. Diarrhea is often very uncomfortable, but can you still eat glucose after having diarrhea?

Can babies drink glucose when they have diarrhea?

Babies with diarrhea can drink glucose. The treatment principles for pediatric diarrhea are: continue eating, make reasonable arrangements, and maintain nutrition. Quickly correct water and electrolyte imbalance. Control internal and external intestinal infections. Provide symptomatic treatment, strengthen nursing care, and prevent and treat complications. Avoid the misuse of antibiotics.

1. Diet therapy

(1) Continue breastfeeding and encourage eating.

(2) Artificially fed infants younger than 6 months old may continue to be fed with milk or dairy products for daily consumption. For those aged >6 months, give them their usual daily diet (such as porridge, noodles, soft rice, etc., and some fresh fruit juice or fruit to supplement potassium), and avoid foods that are difficult to digest.

(3) For patients with severe diarrhea or vomiting, food should be temporarily withheld for 4 to 6 hours, but water should not be withheld. If the fasting time is ≤ 6 hours, you should resume eating as soon as possible.

2. Fluid therapy

(1) Prevent dehydration: From the beginning of diarrhea, give the child enough oral fluids to prevent dehydration. Breastfed infants should continue to breastfeed, and increase the frequency of feedings and extend the duration of single feedings. Infants who are fed mixed diets should be given ORS or other clean drinking water in addition to breastfeeding. For bottle-fed infants, choose ORS or food-based rehydration fluids such as soup, rice water, yogurt drinks or clean drinking water. It is recommended to add a certain amount of fluid after each loose stool (50 ml for children < 6 months old. 100 ml for children 6 months to 2 years old. 150 ml for children 2 to 10 years old. Give as much as children over 10 years old can drink) until the diarrhea stops.

( 2 ) For patients with mild to moderate dehydration, oral rehydration salts (ORS) can be given. The dosage (ml) = body weight (kg) × (50-75). Take within 4 hours. Closely monitor the child's condition and instruct the mother to give the child ORS solution.

The following situations indicate possible failure of oral rehydration: ① persistent, frequent, and massive diarrhea [>10-20 ml/(kg·h)], ② insufficient oral rehydration solution intake, and ③ frequent and severe vomiting. If the child still shows signs of dehydration near the 4th hour mark, the fluid replacement plan should be adjusted. Reassess the child's dehydration status after 4 hours and choose an appropriate course of action.

(3) Patients with moderate to severe dehydration require hospitalization and intravenous rehydration. The total amount of fluid replacement in the first 24 hours includes three parts: cumulative loss, continued loss, and physiological maintenance amount.