Can children drink milk powder if they have diarrhea?

Children with diarrhea can drink milk powder, and during this period, you should pay attention to giving your child more water to avoid dehydration. You should also pay attention to the diet. If you are breastfeeding, the mother should avoid spicy food.

1. Babies can still drink milk powder if they have diarrhea. However, since the baby's digestive tract function is reduced during diarrhea, the amount of milk powder fed should be reduced appropriately, and a little more water should be added to the milk. The premise here that the baby can continue to eat milk powder even if he has diarrhea is that the baby has always had the habit of drinking milk powder before having diarrhea. If your baby has been drinking breast milk before, there is no need to switch and you can continue to let your baby drink breast milk.

2. The baby’s diet should be reduced appropriately and the mother should avoid certain foods. Breastfed babies should reduce the amount of milk they drink, and babies who eat complementary foods should mainly eat noodle soup, rice soup, and rice noodles. Here are two dietary therapies: one is to fry the noodles until they are slightly yellow, then make noodle soup with the fried noodles and shredded ginger, then pick out the shredded ginger and feed it to the baby. Second, you can boil apples and drink the water, or steam apples and eat them, both of which have antidiarrheal effects. In addition, you should avoid eating high-protein, high-fat, and polysaccharide foods, such as eggs, fish, meat, fried and greasy foods, cream, and high-sugar beverages. You should also eat less or temporarily stop eating vegetables, because the crude fiber in vegetables can aggravate diarrhea. Mothers should avoid spicy and greasy foods.

3. For babies with wind-cold diarrhea or spleen-kidney yang deficiency diarrhea , you can fry the salt or heat it in a microwave, then wrap the hot salt with gauze and place it on the baby's navel for a hot compress for 10 to 15 minutes at a time, 2 to 3 times a day. Parents must remember to keep the temperature moderate and never burn the baby's delicate skin. For young children who usually eat too much meat and suffer from diarrhea due to indigestion, in addition to controlling their diet appropriately, they can also boil hawthorn, drink water and eat hawthorn.

4. Pay attention to replenishing water to prevent dehydration. If the baby has severe diarrhea, frequent bowel movements, and significantly reduced urination, in order to prevent dehydration, you should pay attention to giving the baby oral rehydration. Add appropriate amounts of sugar and salt to boiled water to make a light sugar and salt water solution to feed the baby. When giving your baby noodle soup or rice soup, just add salt, no need to add sugar. After rehydration, parents must carefully observe the baby's urine volume, and it should be similar to usual.