Dehydration in infants?

summary

Many parents are careless when taking care of the baby. They find that the baby diarrhea has not attracted enough attention. The baby has frequent diarrhea, vomiting and low appetite. It is easy to have dehydration in varying degrees, and even electrolyte disorder. In serious cases, it is life-threatening. Once the parents find that the child has diarrhea symptoms, they actively seek medical treatment. Dehydration in infants? Now let me tell you something.

Dehydration in infants?

It is found that the baby is in a serious state when it is dehydrated. Once it is found that the baby has diarrhea symptoms, the frequency and amount of urination are reduced, the eye socket and anterior fontanelle are sunken, the mouth and lips are dry, and the skin is loose due to the loss of elasticity. When it is dehydrated seriously, the extremities are cold, the skin is dazzled, and even the blood pressure drops.

The degree of dehydration can be divided into three degrees: the amount of water lost during mild dehydration is about 5% of the body weight; the child's performance is slightly poor in spirit, restlessness, slightly dry skin, poor elasticity, slightly sunken eye socket and anterior fontanelle, slightly reduced water, and tears when crying; During moderate dehydration, the water loss accounts for about 5% - 10% of the body weight. The symptoms include mental wilting, obvious irritability, dry skin, poor elasticity, obvious sunken eye socket and anterior fontanelle, dry lips, slightly cool limbs, less tears when crying, and significantly reduced urine volume;

During severe dehydration, the amount of water loss accounts for more than 10% of the body weight. The child's spirit is extremely withered, his expression is indifferent, and he is in a sleepy state. His skin is dry, gray, and has poor elasticity. His eye socket and anterior fontanelle are deep, his eyes can't be closed, he has no tears when crying, he has little or no urine, his skin on his limbs is cool, and his blood pressure drops.

matters needing attention

Parents usually want to give the baby more water, feeding water can not only use boiled water, feeding some sugar water or glucose water, boiled water and should add some salt, pay attention not to catch cold, if it is breast-feeding, mother pay attention to avoid spicy food. Baby food should be separated from adults, food should be fully cooked before eating, supplies should be disinfected, diapers should be clean.