Neonatal dehydration symptoms?

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The dehydration of the baby indicates that there is not enough water in his body. Babies are more likely to dehydrate than adults. If the baby loses a lot of water when vomiting, diarrhea, fever or sweating, and the intake of water is not enough to supplement, dehydration will occur. According to the severity of dehydration, neonatal dehydration symptoms? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

Neonatal dehydration symptoms?

Mild dehydration: general children easily irritable, crying, thirsty, crying tears reduced, urine volume also reduced accordingly. The eye socket is slightly sunken, the skin is slightly dry, and it shrinks slowly after pinching.

Moderate and severe dehydration: the child is mentally poor, restless or sleepy, the severe one is in coma, weak limbs, no tears or dry mouth when crying, obvious depression of two eye sockets, obvious reduction or no urine, slow retraction after pinching the skin, sudden obvious weight loss, weight loss of about 3% - 10%, or even more.

If the child is thirsty, he can freely drink the electrolyte solution and boiled water mixed with oral rehydration salts, and there is no need to limit the amount of drinking. Do not try homemade formula electrolytes at home, including homemade sugar and salt water, unless directed by a pediatrician and equipped with appropriate tools.

matters needing attention

Baby sweating or sick, remember to feed more water, especially when the weather is hot, to ensure that the baby's body is full of water. Whether breast-feeding or milk powder feeding babies need to drink more water, at least three or four times a day to drink water, do not wait until the baby thirsty after feeding.