What to do if a 5-month-old baby has diarrhea

Children have relatively poor immunity before the age of 3, especially intestinal immunity, so they are particularly prone to diarrhea. As a result, many 5-month-old babies suffer from diarrhea more often. So many parents want to fully understand what to do if a 5-month-old baby has diarrhea? The following content provides a detailed introduction. In order for the baby to recover from diarrhea as soon as possible, parents can have a comprehensive understanding.

Diarrhea in 5-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 your diet

If a breastfed child develops diarrhea, do not stop breastfeeding easily. You can shorten the time of each feeding and let the child eat the first 1/2 to 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 help form stools and absorb bacteria and toxins on the intestinal mucosa, making them 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.

The above is a comprehensive introduction to what to do if a 5-month-old baby has diarrhea. After a comprehensive understanding, in order for your child to recover from diarrhea as soon as possible, after a comprehensive understanding of the above improvement methods, choose the above methods as soon as possible, and through treatment, let your baby's diarrhea can be effectively improved through comprehensive treatment as soon as possible.