What to do if an eight-month-old baby has diarrhea

Diarrhea has a great impact on the baby's health, especially at 8 months old. If diarrhea is not treated as soon as possible, it will have a serious impact on the child's health. Therefore, when their baby has diarrhea at 8 months old, many parents want to fully understand what to do. The following is a specific answer, you can come and learn about it.

If your baby has diarrhea, you need to find out the cause and then use the medicine reasonably! There are many reasons for diarrhea in infants and young children, which can be roughly divided into two categories:

One type is caused by non-infectious factors, such as improper diet or weather changes, which can cause diarrhea. Diarrhea caused by diet includes eating too much or too little; changes in food ingredients, adding too much sugar (conversely causing constipation); adding complementary foods too quickly, causing discomfort, weaning children in hot weather, etc. Weather changes, such as children catching a cold, can cause intestinal dysfunction; hot weather can reduce the secretion of gastric acid and digestive enzymes, and indigestion can cause diarrhea.

The other type is caused by infectious factors, such as unclean feeding utensils or food used by children, which allow bacteria to enter the body and cause diarrhea; long-term use of broad-spectrum antibiotics can cause intestinal flora imbalance and cause diarrhea; when children suffer from acute upper respiratory tract infection, pneumonia, otitis media, urinary tract infection, pharyngitis and other diseases, they can all develop diarrhea due to fever and the influence of pathogen toxins. It takes time to regulate the stomach and intestines. The gastrointestinal system of children is not yet fully developed. Mommy Love can be taken for a long time. My son has been taking it continuously for a whole year! Mommy Love and Biostime are both beneficial bacteria (not medicine), which can regulate the gastrointestinal system. They can make diarrhea less loose and constipation less dry. The price of Mommy Love is moderate, while the price of Biostime is relatively expensive.

If a breastfed baby has diarrhea, do not wean the baby easily. At this time, you can shorten the time of each feeding and let the baby eat the first half of the milk. Because the first half of breast milk contains more protein, it is easy to digest and rich in nutrition, while the second half contains more fat and is difficult to digest. If necessary, the mother can drink a large glass of light salt water half an hour to an hour before breastfeeding to dilute the milk and then breastfeed the child.

Food to stop diarrhea

The following foods not only provide the necessary nutrients for babies, but also have certain antidiarrheal effects.

1. Scorched rice soup: Grind rice flour or milk cream into powder, fry until browned, then add water and appropriate amount of sugar, and boil until it becomes a thin paste. Scorched rice soup is easy to digest, and its carbonized structure has a good adsorption and antidiarrheal effect, making it the first choice food for infants with diarrhea.

2. Carrot soup: Carrots are alkaline foods. The pectin they contain can form stools and absorb pathogenic bacteria and toxins in the intestines. It is a good antidiarrheal and antibacterial food. The method of making carrot soup is as follows: wash the carrots, cut them to remove the stems, cut them into small pieces, add water and cook them until they are soft, then filter them with gauze to remove the residue, then add water to make soup (at a ratio of 500 grams of carrots to 1000 milliliters of water), and finally add sugar and boil. Take 2 to 3 times a day, 100 to 150 ml each time. Stop using after diarrhea improves.

3. Applesauce: Apple is also an alkaline food, containing pectin and tannic acid, which has the effects of absorption, astringency and antidiarrhea. Take a fresh, soft apple, cut it in half, and use a mixing spoon to scrape it into a paste.

What should you do if your eight-month-old baby has diarrhea? I believe that through the comprehensive understanding above, many parents have a comprehensive understanding of what to do if their children have diarrhea at 8 months old? So after a comprehensive understanding, in order for your child to recover from diarrhea as soon as possible, you must go through the above comprehensive introduction as soon as possible and use the correct method to treat it so that your child can recover from diarrhea as soon as possible.