How to treat viral gastroenteritis in children

Viral gastroenteritis in children is a relatively common type of gastroenteritis, which is mainly caused by viruses. Once children have viral gastroenteritis, they will show symptoms such as diarrhea and vomiting. Parents and friends must be very anxious when seeing this. Next, let’s take a look at how to treat viral gastroenteritis in children, so that parents will not be at a loss.

How to treat viral gastroenteritis in children? Currently, there is no specific medicine for viral infections. Therefore, rotavirus gastroenteritis mainly relies on symptomatic and supportive treatment. For children with mild to moderate dehydration, oral rehydration can be used. Choose oral rehydration salts (ORS) with uniform ingredients specified by the World Health Organization. Parents only need to dilute it to a certain volume as required and give it to their children. Dehydration can generally be corrected.

Traditional Chinese medicine dialectical treatment of viral enteritis has a good effect. In the early stage, you can choose to take oral Chinese medicine that clears heat and dampness, strengthens the spleen and stops diarrhea, such as Huanggen Huanglian Decoction or 20 grams of Artemisia annua, one dose a day, decocted and taken twice, and at the same time combined with massage, plastering, foot washing, transdermal drug administration and other therapies. In addition, children can take oral microecological preparations such as Juuke and Mami Love to help restore the ecological balance of normal intestinal flora; they can also take Smecta or Biqi, which have the ability to absorb viruses, bacteria and toxins.

In terms of diet, feed the children appropriate amounts of baking soda, refined salt and glucose water. Diet should also be controlled. Those with severe vomiting should fast for 6 to 12 hours, but not with water. Then the diet should be gradually increased from less to more, and from thin to thick. Because fasting and excessive dietary control will affect children's growth and development as well as the repair of gastrointestinal mucosa. A large number of studies have shown that feeding during diarrhea still has a significant nutritional effect, because rotavirus infection manifests itself segmentally in the intestine, and the normal intestinal mucosa that is not affected still has digestion and absorption functions. At this time, the diet should be adjusted. For example, young children should stop being fed greasy, meaty foods; children who are currently adding complementary foods should stop feeding them or reduce the frequency and amount of complementary foods; small babies can continue to be breastfed, and breastfeeding should be done as much as possible, in small amounts and multiple times.

The above is an introduction to how to treat viral gastroenteritis in children. From the above introduction, we can know that pediatric viral gastroenteritis needs timely treatment, so as to effectively prevent the aggravation of the disease and allow the child to recover health as soon as possible. In addition, a correct diet is also very helpful in treating viral gastroenteritis in children. Parents may wish to give it a try.