What symptom did rotavirus dehydrate?

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Rotavirus is one of the main pathogens causing infantile diarrhea. It mainly infects intestinal epithelial cells, causing cell damage and diarrhea. Rotavirus is prevalent in summer, autumn and winter every year. The infection route is fecal oral route. The clinical manifestation is acute gastroenteritis with osmotic diarrhea. The course of disease is generally 7 days, fever lasts for 3 days, vomiting for 2-3 days, diarrhea for 5 days, and severe dehydration symptoms appear. What symptom did rotavirus dehydrate? Let's talk about it

What symptom did rotavirus dehydrate?

The water content in human body is about 60%. Normal people drink water to replenish body fluid, through sweating, tears. To maintain the balance of body fluid by losing body fluid during urination. When the body fluid level is normal, the blood flow in the body is stable, and there is enough excess water to form tears, saliva, urine and feces. When the body fluid is insufficient, that is, "dehydration", the patient will have no tears when crying, dry mouth, sandpaper like tongue. The color of urine is dark yellow, and the total amount of urine in a day will decrease. In severe cases, the heart rate is accelerated. Blood pressure changes, shock and even death.

Diarrhea is mostly caused by infectious factors. In addition to diarrhea, fever, abdominal pain and leukocytosis are common clinical manifestations. Severe diarrhea is mainly caused by intestinal infection, which is more acute. Not only gastrointestinal symptoms are prominent, but also serious systemic symptoms such as poisoning, dehydration, hypokalemia, hypocalcemia, etc. must be actively treated.

According to the diagnosis and treatment plan of diarrhea in China, the standard of severe diarrhea is diarrhea with severe dehydration or obvious poisoning symptoms (irritability, listlessness, drowsiness, pale complexion, high fever or body temperature does not rise, white blood cell count significantly increased, etc.), it is self-evident that it is the main cause of death of abdominal diarrhea

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Dehydration is a common symptom. As long as we understand the possible causes of dehydration, we can take appropriate measures to prevent it as soon as possible. As mentioned above, the main causes of dehydration are acute gastroenteritis and insufficient water intake. If the child has high fever, vomiting, diarrhea and refuses to eat, it should be thought that dehydration is likely to develop. The dehydration can be prevented by adding oral liquid in a small amount and many times in time.