The earliest symptoms of giant intestinal tuberculosis in babies

Many people don’t know much about the earliest symptoms of giant intestinal tuberculosis in babies. Most of these symptoms are congenital. The fetus excretes very little or even no feces 1-2 days after birth, sometimes accompanied by abdominal pain, bloating, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms. Due to insufficient nutrient absorption, there will be gradual weight loss. If the above symptoms occur, parents should pay attention and go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time. Let’s take a closer look at the earliest symptoms of giant intestinal tuberculosis in babies.

Delayed excretion of meconium: Under normal circumstances, the baby should excrete meconium within 24-36 hours after birth, but most children with congenital mestrocolon still have no meconium excretion 48 hours after birth. Some children may excrete a small amount of meconium on the first day after birth, but less and less afterwards.

Intractable constipation: Constipation is the main symptom of Hirschsprung's disease. Babies often do not defecate for several days and need to use suppositories or cleansing enemas to defecate. Parents must pay attention to this and it is best to go to the hospital for examination to rule out the possibility of Hirschsprung's disease in children.

Abdominal distension with vomiting: Due to the expansion of the small intestine and rectum, the baby will have abdominal distension, which will gradually worsen. After a cleansing enema, stool and gas are discharged and bloating will temporarily improve, but it will reappear after 2 or 3 days. Most children will vomit, but the amount of vomiting is usually not large.

Weight loss and malnutrition: Sometimes, parents may wonder why their children are still stunted even though they have provided adequate nutrition to them. If a child has Hirschsprung's disease, they will suffer from long-term constipation and abdominal distension, which will cause the baby to have a decreased appetite, gradually become weightless, malnourished and have delayed development.

Most types of Hirschsprung's disease are curable

1. Common megacolon: only the rectum and sigmoid colon are lesioned. This type of children is the most common, accounting for 75% of the total proportion; 2. Short-segment megacolon: the lesion is limited to the last 3-4 cm of the rectum, accounting for only 8% of the total proportion of children; 3. Long-segment megacolon: the lesion intestinal segment reaches above the splenic flexure of the colon, or even the entire colon, accounting for 14% of the total proportion of children; the above three types can be cured through surgical treatment, and the prognosis is good, and generally will not affect growth and development.

4. Special type of megacolon: The lesion involves the entire colon and the terminal ileum, and the proportion of children affected is less than 2%; the prognosis of treatment for this type of children is not ideal and needs to be treated with special caution.

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