How to prevent infant diarrhea?

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Diarrhea is a common disease in newborn infants. Patients are required to pay enough attention to the treatment of this disease. The main reason is that newborn infants have immature digestive function, fast development, and need more calories and nutrients. Once they are fed improperly, diarrhea is easy to occur. So we must do a good job of the disease related work, then how to prevent infantile diarrhea?.

How to prevent infant diarrhea?

First: physiological diarrhea: some babies have diarrhea since they were born, which is characterized by more frequent defecation, more than 4 times a day, or even 6-7 times, but they don't spit milk, good appetite, and normal weight and height growth. At the same time, there was no other abnormality except for thin stool. The laboratory test in the hospital was normal, and there was no mucus or pus blood. The main reason for this diarrhea is related to the composition of breast milk. In medicine, this diarrhea is called physiological diarrhea. Generally, it does not need special treatment. After adding complementary food, the stool can gradually return to normal, and the frequency will naturally decrease.

Second: diarrhea caused by mild enteritis: if the new baby's stool frequency is more, yellow, egg flower soup like, often accompanied by blood and mucus, although the baby does not eat a lot of milk, but there is a fishy smell, crying when defecating, irritable. This kind of diarrhea, most of which are caused by pathogenic Escherichia coli, is a common diarrhea in the neonatal period, and needs to be treated with anti-inflammatory drugs and digestive drugs.

Third: Salmonella typhimurium infectious diarrhea: this kind of diarrhea is easy to cause life-threatening, need timely treatment as soon as possible. Mainly caused by contaminated food, mostly in premature babies, low birth weight. The general symptoms include high fever, dark green and sticky stool, white stool, jelly like stool and watery stool with obvious fishy smell. Once parents find this disease, they should pay attention to prevent infection and send it to the hospital for treatment in time.

matters needing attention

Adjust diet: for mild diarrhea, continue breastfeeding, but reduce the frequency and time of breastfeeding as appropriate. For severe diarrhea, fasting for 6-12 hours is needed. After diarrhea and vomiting are improved, breast-feeding can be gradually restored. Artificial feeding baby can first feed rice soup, diluted milk (a milk plus two parts of water or rice soup), from less to more, from thin to thick, gradually transition to normal diet. Prevention of dehydration: diarrhea, vomiting and diarrhea, stool frequency, severe dehydration, skin elasticity decline, little or no urine. At this point should immediately give the baby oral rehydration salt, to supplement the loss of water and salt, dehydration will not occur. To a small number of times, easy to gastrointestinal absorption, do not give the baby too much at once. Severe dehydration should be sent to the hospital for intravenous infusion immediately. Do a good job of family nursing: parents should carefully observe the nature, color, frequency and amount of baby's stool, if there is any abnormality, they should go to the hospital for examination in time; To keep the abdomen warm and reduce intestinal peristalsis, you can wrap the abdomen with towel or apply it with hot water bag; Pay attention to let the baby rest more, wash the buttocks with warm water after defecation to prevent the occurrence of red buttocks; Diapers should be cleaned, boiled, disinfected, dried and reused.