What to do if your 6-month-old baby has diarrhea after having a fever

We usually add complementary foods to babies at four or five months old. The baby may have diarrhea symptoms because he or she is not used to it. However, diarrhea will not occur until the intestines gradually adapt. But what happens if the baby has diarrhea when he or she has a fever? Will it be very bad for the body and bring many adverse effects to the children? Or it may affect the child’s growth and development, so let’s find out what to do if a 6-month-old baby has diarrhea after having a fever?

In terms of dietary care, it is emphasized that meals should be eaten at regular times and in regular amounts, with appropriate temperatures, and that one should eat less or avoid greasy, fried, and spicy foods as much as possible to avoid excess nutrition in the body, which will promote dampness and heat generation. One should also drink less cold drinks and frozen foods to avoid damaging the yang energy of the spleen and stomach, and cultivate the habit of not being picky about food.

Children's fever and diarrhea are mainly caused by the loss of a large amount of water and salt. If the baby is dehydrated to below moderate level, without severe vomiting and able to eat, you can feed the baby oral rehydration saline in small amounts and multiple times, once every 2 to 3 minutes, and feed 10 to 20 ml each time with a spoon; this way, small amounts will accumulate into large amounts, and the dehydration can be corrected in about 4 to 6 hours. If the child has severe diarrhea and is obviously dehydrated, the child should be taken to the hospital to see a pediatrician and given intravenous fluids.

Antibiotics should not be abused when babies have diarrhea caused by viruses, because antibiotics are not only ineffective, but will also kill the normal intestinal flora, causing flora disorders and aggravating diarrhea. Also, do not give antidiarrheal drugs casually to prevent the excretion of pathogens and toxins.

If the child does not have diarrhea often and is in good spirits, you can observe him at home. And do not eat or drink for a while to give your stomach and intestines a rest. Give light tea with a little salt and sugar, and feed frequently. The diet includes light and easily digestible foods such as skimmed milk, porridge and a small amount of pickles.

When a 6-month-old baby has diarrhea after having a fever, what parents are most worried about is that they need to treat the baby quickly, because they are afraid that the baby will become dehydrated if it goes on for a long time. Of course, they are also afraid that it will cause some other diseases. The baby’s health is the most important thing we care about the most, so if the child is sick, the parents are definitely responsible, and it is useless to blame themselves. Just find the cause and correct it as soon as possible.