Children with viral gastroenteritis symptoms?
summary
Infantile viral enteritis, also known as viral diarrhea, is a group of acute intestinal infectious diseases caused by a variety of viruses. The general symptoms are acute disease, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, watery stool or loose stool, fever and general discomfort. The course of disease is short and the mortality is low. Children with viral gastroenteritis symptoms? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.
Children with viral gastroenteritis symptoms?
Most of the cases occurred in infants aged 6-24 months. The cases over 4 years old were rare and the onset was acute. Often accompanied by fever and upper respiratory tract infection symptoms, such as fever, cough, red throat, runny nose, etc., mental depression, loss of appetite.
No obvious symptoms of infection and poisoning, vomiting often occurred in the first 1-2 days of the disease, followed by diarrhea, diarrhea 5-6 times a day, mostly 10-20 times. Stool is like egg flower soup or water sample, with acid odor. It contains less bile and has lighter stool color, so it is also called "white diarrhea".
Children often accompanied with vomiting, abdominal pain and other symptoms. Due to the loss of water and salt caused by diarrhea, dehydration, acidosis and electrolyte disorder occur. The symptoms of children aged from 6 to 24 months were severe, while most of the older children or adults had mild or subclinical infection. The onset of acute, vomiting after diarrhea, with mild, moderate fever.
matters needing attention
In order to prevent viral enteritis in children, we should pay attention to the hygiene of infant feeding, scald the used bottle and nipple with boiling water, wash hands before adults feed children, wash hands before and after meals, and do not eat dirty and deteriorated food. If the child has diarrhea, parents should take the child to the hospital in time to make a definite diagnosis, so as to determine a reasonable treatment plan. They should not use antibiotics for the child, so as not to delay the illness.
