What to do if the baby keeps having diarrhea

Diarrhea is a common illness in infants. What should I do if my baby keeps having diarrhea? Babies have immature digestive functions, develop rapidly, and need more calories and nutrition. If they are not fed properly, they are prone to diarrhea. Common causes of diarrhea include excessive or excessive food intake, which increases the burden on the gastrointestinal tract; food supplements that are added too quickly or too much food, and eating oily foods with too much oil residue, which makes the food incompletely digested; untimely feeding, the gastrointestinal tract cannot form a conditioned reflex to secrete digestive juices at once, resulting in a decrease in the baby's digestive function.

Infancy is the period of fastest growth and development in the human body, and all the nutrients needed are digested and absorbed by the digestive organs. Because infants' nervous systems are not fully developed, their gastrointestinal regulation function is poor, and various digestive enzymes are secreted less and have lower activity, their body's tolerance to food is poor, and they are prone to digestive dysfunction and diarrhea. The main causes of diarrhea in babies are as follows:

1. Bacterial infection

If your baby has severe diarrhea (sometimes accompanied by vomiting) and also has abdominal pain, bloody stools, fever, etc., it is often caused by bacteria (such as E. coli, Salmonella, etc.).

2. Viral infection

It is very common in both adults and children. The pathogens that cause gastroenteritis are mostly viruses, the most common of which is rotavirus, which occurs in late autumn and early winter.

3. Antibiotics

If your baby's diarrhea occurs during or after treatment with antibiotics, diarrhea may be caused by dysbiosis.

4. Parasitic Infections

Parasitic infections may also cause diarrhea in your baby. For example, giardiasis (also called "pir-shaped flagellation") is caused by a microscopic parasite that lives in the intestines.

5. Formula

Improper preparation of formula milk may also cause diarrhea in babies, so add water in strict proportion when preparing milk. In addition, babies may also suffer from diarrhea due to improper sterilization of utensils used to prepare formula milk.

6. Milk/soy allergy

Milk allergy is not uncommon in babies. It can also cause diarrhea and sometimes vomiting. Sometimes infectious diarrhea can occur if hygiene is not paid attention to when preparing formula milk.