What should I do if my five-month-old baby has diarrhea?

It is inevitable that babies will get sick during their growth process. No matter how old the baby is, they will have diarrhea. This situation is mainly caused by improper care in daily life. Some babies also suffer from improper diet, which makes parents feel particularly distressed. However, after such a situation occurs, don’t be too anxious. It can be cured through daily conditioning and dietary adjustments. Let’s learn about it below.

Diarrhea in five-month-old babies is mostly caused by improper feeding and eating disorders, so the following method can not only provide nutrition but also has an antidiarrheal effect.

1. Adjust the diet: If a breastfed baby develops diarrhea, do not stop breastfeeding easily. You can shorten the time of each feeding and let the baby eat the first 1/2-2/3 of the milk, because the first half of breast milk mainly contains substances such as protein. The second half of breast milk mainly contains substances such as fat, which is difficult to digest, so this part of milk can be squeezed out and poured away. If the child is fed with cow's milk, it is not appropriate to feed him whole milk, but skimmed milk. You can make skim milk at home. After the milk is boiled and cooled, use chopsticks to pick up the layer of milk skin on the surface and throw it away. Repeat this three times and you will have skim milk. However, once the baby's diarrhea improves, it is not advisable to feed skimmed milk to avoid malnutrition.

2. Food to stop diarrhea:

(1) Scorched Rice Soup: Grind rice flour or milk cake into powder, fry until it turns yellow, add appropriate amount of water and sugar, and then fry until it becomes a paste. When rice flour is added with water and then heated, it becomes dextrin. Dextrin is easily digestible, and its carbonized structure has a good adsorption and antidiarrheal effect.

2) Carrot soup: Carrots are alkaline foods. The pectin they contain can promote stool formation and absorb bacteria and toxins on the intestinal mucosa. It is a good antidiarrheal food. The preparation method is: wash the carrots, cut them in half, remove the stems, then cut them into small pieces, add water and boil them until they are soft, then filter out the residue with gauze, and finally add water (500 grams of carrots to 1000 grams of water) and sugar and bring to a boil.

Through the above introduction, we know how to adjust a five-month-old baby after he has diarrhea. Such a situation is inevitable in life. The important thing is how to adjust the baby after he has such a situation. Generally, do not force the baby to eat after he has diarrhea. You can stop it for a few days and let the child drink more water.