What happens if children have diarrhea and have metabolic acidosis?

Metabolic acidosis is common in children with diarrhea. This phenomenon requires timely hospital examination and treatment. Pay attention to daily dietary hygiene, do not eat spicy foods such as hot peppers, eat more onions and garlic to enhance immunity, and do not eat mutton and dog meat. Many people do not know enough about the presence of metabolic acidosis in children with diarrhea. Next, let’s take a look at why metabolic acidosis occurs in children with diarrhea.

Dietary taboos for metabolic acidosis

1. Metabolic acidosis in children with diarrhea

Babies will lose a large amount of alkaline substances in their bodies due to diarrhea. As the diarrhea occurs, the baby's appetite decreases, and relatively speaking, the baby's food intake will be much less, resulting in a significant lack of calorie intake.

During diarrhea, the gastrointestinal wall is definitely more fragile than usual, and the intestines' absorption of nutrients is greatly reduced. At this time, the body cannot get the normal supply of heat energy and can only break down the existing fat in the body, which results in the production of a large number of ketone bodies.

Babies become dehydrated after suffering from excessive diarrhea. At this time, the blood volume in the body decreases. Because the concentration increases, the blood circulation in the body slows down, and the body's tissues inevitably suffer from hypoxia. If the baby is not replenished with fluids in time after becoming dehydrated, the urine volume will decrease and acidic metabolic products will accumulate in the body.

Therefore, most children with diarrhea suffer from metabolic acidosis, and the more severe the dehydration, the more serious the acidosis.

2. Dietary taboos for metabolic acidosis

1. It is not advisable to eat mutton and dog meat.

2. Avoid eating spicy hot pot, hot peppers, peppercorns, pepper and other spicy or irritating foods to prevent heat accumulation in the body, which can turn evil heat into fire and reduce the body's resistance. Eat more onions and garlic, they have a positive effect on improving immunity and preventing respiratory diseases. Onion is warm in nature and spicy in taste. It has the effects of dispelling cold, strengthening the stomach, sweating, removing phlegm and killing bacteria. It is rich in protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins A, B1, B2, C, minerals, calcium, phosphorus, iron, magnesium and plant fiber.

3. Notes

It should not be consumed at the same time as honey, jujube, bayberry, pheasant, Rehmannia glutinosa, Dichroa febrifuga, Polygonum multiflorum, etc. Garlic is warm in nature and spicy in taste. It can strengthen the stomach, kill bacteria and dispel cold. It is suitable for patients with lung diseases. Garlic should be used raw to prevent diseases. Because of its significant broad-spectrum antibacterial effect, it has a preventive effect on patients with metabolic acidosis.

4. Reminder

Do not eat too much raw garlic. People with yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire (such as flushed face, low fever in the afternoon, dry mouth and constipation, irritability, etc.), gastric ulcers, and chronic gastritis should avoid eating it. It should not be eaten with honey.