What to do if your seven-month-old baby has diarrhea

In our daily life, children always go to the hospital every other day. According to our survey, diarrhea is the most common reason, which has caused a lot of trouble to parents. We should pay more attention to it. Now we will introduce a series of situations about baby diarrhea in detail. I hope you will read it carefully.

Diarrhea is a common symptom, commonly known as "diarrhea", which means that the number of bowel movements is significantly higher than the usual frequency, the feces is thin, the water content is increased, the daily stool volume exceeds 200g, or contains undigested food or pus, blood, or mucus. Diarrhea is often accompanied by symptoms such as the urge to defecate, anal discomfort, and incontinence. Diarrhea can be divided into two categories: acute and chronic. Acute diarrhea develops rapidly and lasts for 2 to 3 weeks. Chronic diarrhea refers to recurrent diarrhea with a course of more than two months or an interval of 2 to 4 weeks. (1) Bacterial infection: People may develop enteritis or bacillary dysentery after eating food contaminated by bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Shigella, or drinking beverages contaminated by bacteria, with symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, tenesmus, and fever of varying degrees.

(2) Viral infection: When a person is infected with a variety of viruses through food or other means, it is easy to cause viral diarrhea. For example, after being infected with rotavirus, Norwalk virus, Coxsackie virus, Echo virus and other viruses, symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, fever and general discomfort may occur.

(3) Food poisoning is an acute toxic disease caused by eating food contaminated by bacteria and their toxins, or eating uncooked lentils, etc. Spoiled food and contaminated water are the main sources of infection, while unclean hands, tableware and infected flies are the main routes of transmission. Patients may experience acute gastrointestinal symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and fever.

(4) Eating raw and cold foods and drinking ice beer frequently can lead to gastrointestinal dysfunction, accelerated intestinal motility, and diarrhea.

(5) Food retention and indigestion, irregular eating, overeating, eating indigestible food, or food retention in the stomach due to insufficient gastric motility, causing symptoms such as abdominal distension, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, acid reflux, heartburn, and belching (hiccups).

(6) Catching a cold In the hot summer, people like to stay in air-conditioned rooms or sleep with the air conditioner on. The abdomen can easily get cold, which speeds up intestinal peristalsis and causes diarrhea.

The above gives you a detailed introduction to some situations regarding baby diarrhea. From the above introduction we can. We know that there are still many reasons causing baby diarrhea. I hope that parents will not be anxious when their baby has diarrhea, deal with it calmly, and pay more attention to it in daily life. I hope the above introduction can help everyone in life. I wish you all a happy life.