What to do if a four-month-old baby has diarrhea

Since babies are not well developed yet, their digestive abilities are limited. If some mothers are not careful and feed their children food that exceeds their digestive capacity, diarrhea may occur. Many parents may give their children random medications out of anxiety, which not only fails to alleviate the diarrhea symptoms, but makes them worse. Today I will introduce some more professional and effective methods.

1. Use lactase, pepsin solution, etc. to promote digestion.

2. Use montmorillonite powder to stop diarrhea and protect the gastrointestinal mucosa.

3. Eat a light diet and avoid difficult-to-digest foods, such as greasy foods.

4. After the diarrhea is cured, constipation may occur for a period of time, which requires attention.

Due to differences in children's eating habits, health conditions and individual differences, the nutrients contained in some mothers' breast milk exceed the baby's needs, which will cause diarrhea in the baby, which is usually called "physiological diarrhea." Babies with "physiological diarrhea" do not need medication, and generally the effect will be achieved by changing the baby's diet to milk or other dairy products. If you don't want to wean your baby, you can shorten the time of each feeding and let your baby only eat the first half of the milk which is high in protein and low in fat. This can also improve the situation. If necessary, the mother can drink a large cup of light salt water half an hour to an hour before breastfeeding to dilute the breast milk, and then feed the baby.

Generally speaking, if the baby has no other adverse symptoms such as vomiting, fever, etc. except frequent and loose stools, and the child's appetite is also good, most of the time it is "physiological diarrhea" and not caused by any disease. In this case, it will get better by slowly adding complementary foods, and mothers don't need to worry too much.