How to protect your child from diarrhea and drought ?
Diarrhea is more common among children diseases affect children of different ages and be more
dangerous to the young who have children under the age of five due to the high percentage of water in the body of the child, and cause frequent bouts of diarrhea and the resulting malnutrition straining the child and weaken their resistance and fails replenish the body of necessary food, fluids and salts.
Available at the moment simple means to treat diarrhea and dehydration, and can save the lives of many children and reduce diagnosed complications and risks such as malnutrition and diarrhea, so that the use of such means as soon as diarrhea.
Diarrhea is known as a change in the nature of stool child becomes liquid and is accompanied by increased frequency of bowel movements, and may differ from child to child depending on the nature of intestinal movement.
What types of diarrhea
It may be acute or chronic diarrhea lasts more than 14 days, which requires the child to convert to a specialist children to diagnose the situation and report appropriate treatment.
Watery diarrhea:
Usually result from infections caused by viruses and other germs that cause the exit of liquid stools accompanied by dehydration, which increases the chance of developing serious complications.
Causes diarrhea
Causing germs that invade the digestive tract and diarrhea, the most prevalent viruses as well as other germs such as bacteria, amoeba and other...
Replace the fluids and salts lost by the body:
It should be noted that this drought solution will not stop diarrhea, which will continue for a few days and then stops automatically, but will be offset fluids and salts lost by the body and reduces the incidence of chronic drought and is not a miracle cure, as some think as it consists of the solution of salt and sugar packaged in commercial form and mix its contents quantity specific drinking water boiled in advance and refrigerated, and is recommended to use the solution within 24 hours only to increase the likelihood of contamination of the solution with germs, and that there was a need to use more of the solution in the next day you should prepare a new solution. these solutions are means available ready-to-use preset.
Diarrhea is accompanied by drought:
Simple diarrhea symptoms without the appearance of signs of dehydration:
• defecate 3-4 times a day or watery stools Lin.
• Not affected by the general condition of the child and play and have fun in more of his time.
• a flexible skin and back to its previous position when pinched between thumb and forefinger and then leaves.
• There is no thirst and humidity of the mucous membranes in the mouth.
In addition to the following symptoms:
• normal temperatures.
• vomiting non-existent or very few.
• Eyes natural lagoons.
• urine normally.
Simple treatment of diarrhea without dehydration:
● preferably immediately start giving dehydration solution through the mouth in order to be compensated fluids and salts lost by the body in order to reduce the incidence of drought. The solution is prepared and given to the child after all stand out as much as possible from a water drinking cup or using a spoon.
● If the child vomits it is recommended that you wait for a period of 5 ● 10 minutes and then resume giving him the right amount of solution and slowly.
● baby monitor constantly to make sure no dehydration.
● If the child appeared on the danger signs must be transferred immediately to the nearest health center or hospital to give appropriate treatment and these signs:
● increase the number of times a watery bowel movements.
● frequent vomiting.
● loss of appetite and refuse food.
● thirst remarkable.
● high temperature.
● blood out with feces.
Feeding system:
● it is necessary to continue to breastfeed a child with diarrhea and even increase the number of times the mother's breast-feeding to replace lost fluids and that the child is dependent on other fluids must continue viewing on a child.
● If a child's life has exceeded 6 months and began eating solid foods in addition to milk should continue to give these foods as well as the need to continue breastfeeding.
● If the child for industrial milk is recommended to ease the adoption of milk and increase the concentration of water or give the child a lactose-free milk to accelerate the healing after consulting a doctor.
What is allowed during diarrhea:
• continue breastfeeding.
• Provide plenty of fluids to the child, especially a solution of salts.
• Provide soup, carrots or carrot powder.
• apple juice without sugar or with a little sugar.
• natural yogurt.
• Clean water rice.
• apples (served mashed for infants).
• the banana.
• carrots (offers powder for infants).
• low-fat milk.
What is forbidden and must be avoided during diarrhea:
• sugars.
• fats.
Can you give a child plain water during diarrhea
Yes, but should not replace this water solution as instructed by the doctor, and a lot of it alone may cause an imbalance in the blood salts when the child.
Antidiarrheal:
The popularity of these drugs despite no benefit at all in dealing with drought or diarrhea, they should not at all be given to children as it slows bowel activity and ease the pain temporarily and give a false impression that the diarrhea has improved.
This type of drug treatments are very harmful to the longer they do not affect the pathogenesis of diarrhea do not compensate for lost fluids, they also cause the accumulation of harmful substances and residues of the body in the intestines, which means disabling process out germs and pathogens that cause diarrhea of the body they do not relieve diarrhea, but Tudela in addition to the side effects that accompany them.
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