Symptoms of gastritis in children

summary

Infantile gastritis is a common disease of digestive system in children. In the past, people only paid attention to the incidence of gastritis in adults, but they did not know enough about children's gastritis, and there were some misunderstandings. They simply thought that the gastrointestinal symptoms in children were mainly caused by gastrointestinal dysfunction, disharmony between spleen and stomach, and intestinal spasm. With the increasing incidence rate of gastritis in children, the medical profession began to redefine the gastritis in children. Infantile gastritis is related to the healthy growth of children, parents should pay enough attention to it.

Symptoms of gastritis in children

Common symptoms: intermittent dull pain or dull pain, severe severe colic with vomiting, upper abdominal fullness, nausea, anorexia, acid regurgitation, heating, hematemesis. The most common symptom of chronic gastritis in children is repeated abdominal pain. Abdominal pain is mostly persistent dull pain or paroxysmal spasmodic abdominal pain, which can occur before or after meals, or at night or irregularly.

Parents should pay attention to the following: because the onset is hidden, the symptoms are not typical, and children can not accurately describe the characteristics of the disease, so it is easy to be ignored by family and doctors, or misdiagnosed as intestinal ascariasis, dyspepsia, etc.

Children with gastritis are generally in good condition, or they may defecate less than 10 times a day, yellow or yellow green, a small amount of mucus or white soap, little fecal matter, and sometimes their stools are like "egg flower soup". Nausea and vomiting, low appetite, and sometimes vomit coffee like substances. If hypokalemia occurs, abdominal distension and systemic poisoning may occur; Such as irregular low or high fever, restlessness and low spirits, hazy consciousness, and even coma.

matters needing attention

Diet conditioning is very important to cure children's chronic gastritis. The general principle is that the food should be "fine, soft, tender and rotten". Children are in the stage of growth and development, so the food should be rich in nutrition, so we need to add some milk, stewed fish, eggs, bean products, noodles, porridge, fresh vegetables, fruits and so on. In addition, you can also eat some food that is helpful for gastric digestion, such as yam, lentils, lotus seed, chicken gizzard, pork tripe, rice kernel, etc. Should not eat more food celery, bamboo shoots, fat, all kinds of fried food.