How to treat poor stomach in infants and young children?

It is common for infants and young children to have poor gastrointestinal problems. Due to their young age, their body functions are not fully developed. If they are not careful, they will have poor gastrointestinal problems. The general symptoms are loss of appetite and diarrhea. This situation makes many parents particularly worried. We parents must pay attention to it and take active measures to regulate it. How to regulate the poor gastrointestinal problems of infants and young children? Let’s take a look at it below.

The reason is that newborns have poor immune function, especially intestinal immunity. When the intestines are infected, they are unable to weaken and neutralize the virulence of bacteria. In addition, the fetus grows in a bacteria-free greenhouse environment in the uterus, and immediately after birth it grows in an environment contaminated by numerous bacteria and viruses. Its resistance is too weak, and its digestive function and regulatory functions of various systems are also relatively poor. Therefore, newborns are prone to digestive dysfunction and infectious diarrhea.

Diarrhea caused by different pathogens is treated differently. The principles of diet and nutritional supplementation are the same as those for diarrhea in older children. Newborns should not drink too much milk when they first start to have loose stools. If breast milk is insufficient, you can add diluted milk (1 part water to 1 part milk). Do not rush and increase the amount of milk too quickly. Reduce the gastrointestinal burden, take some light salt water, vitamin C, and take gastric enzyme mixture and epididymide orally to help restore digestive function. Different types of diarrhea use different vitamins, such as some berberine, furazolidone, polymyxin, etc. If the diarrhea is caused by a virus, parents do not need to give children anti-inflammatory drugs. If the bowel movement does not improve after general treatment and the child has watery diarrhea more than 10 times, the child should be taken to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment.

The above is an introduction on how to regulate gastrointestinal problems in infants and young children. When such a situation occurs, we parents should pay close attention to the child’s condition. If we find that the child’s condition becomes more serious or has not improved during regulation, we should go to the hospital with the child for timely treatment to prevent the disease from becoming serious and causing a high fever.