What to do if your child has vomiting and diarrhea

Vomiting and diarrhea in children is a relatively common disease. Children's physical fitness is relatively weak, their resistance to the outside world is relatively poor, and their self-protection awareness is relatively poor. I don’t know what to eat and what not to eat. This will lead to vomiting and diarrhea. Let’s learn what to do if children have vomiting and diarrhea.

1. Never fast. Regardless of the cause of diarrhea, although the baby's digestive tract function is reduced, the baby can still digest and absorb some nutrients, so breastfed babies should continue to be fed as long as the baby wants to eat. For babies who drink milk, the amount of milk they drink can be reduced by about 1/3 each time, and a little water can be added to the milk. If the baby is not eating enough after reducing the amount, you can add salty rice soup, or feed carrot water or fresh vegetable water to supplement inorganic salts and vitamins. For babies who are already eating complementary foods such as porridge, the amount of these foods can be slightly reduced. Make sure to feed water according to the baby's thirst.

2. Detect dehydration early. When an infant has severe diarrhea, accompanied by vomiting, fever, thirst, dry lips, little or no urine, sunken eye sockets and anterior fontanelle, the infant becomes "thin" in a short period of time, the skin becomes "wilted", and the infant cries without tears, this indicates that dehydration has occurred and the sick child should be sent to the hospital for treatment in time.

3. Don’t abuse antibiotics. Many mild diarrhea cases can heal themselves without the need for antibiotics or other anti-inflammatory drugs; or taking microecological preparations such as Mommy Love, or water-absorbing drugs such as Smecta can quickly cure the disease. Especially for autumn diarrhea caused by viral infection, the use of antibiotics is not only ineffective but harmful. Antibiotics can be used for bacterial dysentery or other bacterial diarrhea, but treatment must be under the guidance of a doctor.

4. Parents should carefully observe the nature, color, frequency and amount of stool, and keep abnormal stool samples for testing to find the cause of diarrhea; pay attention to keeping the abdomen warm to reduce intestinal peristalsis, and wrap the abdomen with a towel or apply a hot water bottle to the abdomen; make sure the baby gets more rest, wash the buttocks with warm water after defecation to prevent diaper rash; diapers should be cleaned, boiled and disinfected, and dried before use.

5. Applesauce: Take a fresh apple, cut it in half, and gently scrape it with a small metal spoon. Apple fibers are finer, have little irritation to the intestines, are alkaline, contain pectin and tannic acid, have adsorption and astringent effects, and are beneficial for the treatment of diarrhea.

The above is an explanation of the condition of vomiting and diarrhea in children. For parents, to take good care of their children, they must start with some small details in daily life and pay attention to their food, clothing, housing and transportation. In the cold winter, the weather will affect children's health. In the summer, we should also pay attention to children's daily diet.