Is infantile diarrhea contagious

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Children's digestion is weak, usually it is easy to cause diet or infection factors, leading to diarrhea, sometimes diarrhea will last for a long time. Let's see if baby diarrhea is contagious.

Is infantile diarrhea contagious

First of all: infantile diarrhea will be infectious, infantile diarrhea is mostly caused by rotavirus infection, infantile enteritis or bacillary dysentery caused by bacterial infection, with infectious digestive tract, so normal baby can not contact diarrhea baby.

Secondly: when the baby's diarrhea symptoms are still not controlled, such as the acute stage of inflammation, should eat less to reduce the gastrointestinal burden, should not prematurely carry out the so-called "supplement" diet, and in the recovery period after the symptom control, gradually strengthen the nutritional components in the food.

Finally: different etiology of diarrhea diet regulation also has different differences. The diarrhea of acute gastroenteritis generally recovers quickly, and the diet should be light liquid or semi liquid (rice soup or porridge). If the symptoms are serious, short-term fasting or only oral sugar and salt water should be taken to facilitate the recovery of diarrhea.

matters needing attention

Infants should advocate breastfeeding to reduce the incidence of diarrhea; try to avoid contact with diarrhea infants; increasing the complementary food for infants is a gradual process, and ensure the freshness and hygiene of food to avoid causing gastrointestinal discomfort.