Symptoms of infantile diarrhea

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It is common for infants to have diarrhea. This is because the digestive function of young infants is not mature, and they develop relatively fast. They need a lot of calories and nutrients. For some new mothers, it is easy to have improper feeding. For example, they eat too much or too many times when they give their babies, which aggravates the burden of the gastrointestinal tract, and it is easy to have diarrhea. Baby diarrhea symptoms, next I tell you.

Symptoms of infantile diarrhea

Mild onset can be slow or acute, mainly gastrointestinal symptoms, loss of appetite, occasional galactorrhea or vomiting, increased stool frequency (3-10 times / day) and character changes; There was no symptom of systemic acidosis of dehydrator, and most of them were cured within a few days. It was often caused by dietary factors and extraintestinal infection. In children with rickets or malnutrition, diarrhea is mild, but often persistent, and can be secondary to other diseases. Children can show weakness, pale, low appetite. Microscopic examination of stool showed a small amount of white blood cells.

In addition to severe gastrointestinal symptoms, there are also obvious symptoms of dehydration, electrolyte disorder and systemic poisoning (fever, irritability, mental depression, drowsiness, even coma, shock). Most of them are caused by intestinal infection.

Gastrointestinal symptoms often include vomiting, severe cases can vomit brown liquid, low appetite, frequent diarrhea, stool ten to dozens of times a day, mostly yellow water or egg pattern stool, containing a small amount of mucus, a small number of children can also have a small amount of bloody stool.

matters needing attention

When the baby has diarrhea, you should not use drugs indiscriminately. At the same time, you should pay attention not to let the baby eat some food that is not easy to digest when taking care of the baby. Especially in the stage of adding complementary food, you should gradually add it. You can't add various complementary food at one time to avoid the baby's diarrhea.