Black loose stools in a child with fever

Once a child has a fever, parents will worry, and they don’t know how to take care of their children. In fact, every time a child has a fever, he or she will have diarrhea, which is a complication. In this case, parents should adjust their children’s diet better, so as to reduce the gastrointestinal burden to a certain extent.

When a baby has diarrhea, in addition to timely treatment, home care is also very important. There are three main methods:

First, adjust your child’s diet to reduce the burden on the gastrointestinal tract. Some parents try every possible means to feed their children chocolate, milk, eggs and other high-fat and high-protein foods in an attempt to make up for the damage caused by diarrhea in their children. However, they do not realize that doing so will make the diarrhea persist for a long time. At this time, it is advisable to give children some easily digestible food, such as rice soup, sugar and salt water, or even temporarily prohibit them from eating, so that gastrointestinal function can be restored to speed up the recovery of the disease.

Second, pay attention to keeping your child's abdomen warm. Children's abdomen is easily affected by cold because babies with diarrhea have faster intestinal peristalsis. If the abdomen is affected by cold, the intestinal peristalsis will be even faster, thus aggravating the condition.

Third, pay attention to protecting your baby's buttocks. Due to the increased frequency of bowel movements, the skin and mucous membranes around the anus will inevitably be damaged to varying degrees. Parents should pay special attention to the anal area during care.

After defecation, you should wipe gently with soft toilet paper, or wash gently with soft gauze dipped in water. After washing, you can apply some oily ointment to prevent diaper rash. Change diapers in time to avoid diapers soaked in feces and urine from rubbing against the skin and causing ulcers. The toiletry and diapers used by sick children, as well as contaminated clothes and bed sheets, should be washed and disinfected in time to avoid repeated infection.

Baby diarrhea (also known as indigestion) is a clinical syndrome caused by different causes, mainly occurring in infants under 2 years old, with the following four types of symptoms:

First, mild symptoms: five to eight bowel movements a day, possibly accompanied by a mild fever or vomiting. The stool is yellow-green, mucus-containing and egg-drop soup-like, accompanied by mild abdominal distension and hyperactive bowel sounds.

Second, moderate diarrhea: ten bowel movements a day, loose watery stools, sour and smelly, and possible moderate fever.

Third, severe cases: frequent diarrhea, eight to fifteen bowel movements a day, watery and large in volume, with a sour odor, irritability, drowsiness, listlessness, and even coma, convulsions, bloody and mucous stools, sunken anterior fontanelle, dry skin and lips, etc.

Fourth, some patients may experience obvious dehydration, acidosis, and electrolyte imbalance, such as hypokalemia or hypomagnesemia.