Symptoms of rotavirus diarrhea?

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Rotavirus has obvious seasonality. It likes to be active at about 20 ℃. During the transition period of autumn and winter, we should pay special attention to that most children are infected with rotavirus from October to December every year, so it is also called autumn diarrhea. Symptoms of rotavirus diarrhea? Let's talk about it.

Symptoms of rotavirus diarrhea?

Rotavirus diarrhea from asymptomatic, mild to severe fatal gastroenteritis, dehydration and electrolyte imbalance. The symptoms of rotavirus diarrhea include fever, vomiting, abdominal pain and watery diarrhea without blood color. The diarrhea products are white rice soup like or yellow green egg like watery stool with stench and no blood or mucus. The symptoms lasted for 3-9 days. In addition to gastrointestinal symptoms, recent studies have found that rotavirus can cause many other diseases, some cases may have varying degrees of liver function damage, rotavirus can even cause viremia through the gastrointestinal barrier.

Nearly 40000 children die of rotavirus diarrhea in China every year, accounting for about 12% of the total deaths of children under 5 years old in China. Outbreaks have been recorded in all provinces and cities in China. It can occur all year round, and the epidemic peak is in autumn and winter. 42% of rotavirus infected people have no symptoms, but can transmit the virus. Diarrhea children and asymptomatic carriers are the main sources of infection. Rotavirus is mainly transmitted through close contact, and can also be indirectly transmitted through polluted water, soil, food, toys, clothing, appliances, etc., which is difficult to prevent.

Rotavirus diarrhea mostly occurs in infants aged 6-24 months. In addition to intestinal infection, diarrhea, dehydration, electrolyte disorder, it can also cause viremia, leading to more serious complications, such as myocarditis, encephalitis, pneumonia, hepatitis or acute pancreatitis. According to the latest data of disease burden of rotavirus diarrhea in CDC of China, the average outpatient cost of rotavirus diarrhea in children under 5 years old is 168 yuan / time (92-230 yuan / time), and the average hospitalization cost of rotavirus diarrhea in children under 5 years old is 3145 yuan / time (2760-4909 yuan / time).

matters needing attention

(1) Diet conditioning: pay attention to the supply of enough calories, breast-feeding children to suspend complementary food, continue breastfeeding. The artificial feeding children were fed with appropriate amount of dairy products. Children with severe vomiting fasted for 4-6 hours and continued to feed after remission（ 2) Correct electrolyte disorder, acid-base imbalance: Baby autumn diarrhea, the first method of rehydration is oral rehydration salt, 1 bag of oral rehydration salt dissolved in 500 ml warm water, oral. But because some babies with diarrhea are not willing to drink water, their spirit is also very poor, and they have obvious dehydration symptoms. In this case, they need intravenous infusion.