What to do if your baby has bacterial diarrhea

Many babies now suffer from diarrhea. We all know that babies' body resistance is very weak during the period of growth and development. Then baby's diarrhea may be caused by many reasons, so we can pay more attention to common sense in this regard. So today we will introduce to you how to treat baby diarrhea. Let’s take a look at it together below.

Almost every baby has diarrhea more than once, especially younger babies. Therefore, it is one of the "four pediatric diseases" that babies are most likely to suffer from. When babies suffer from vomiting and diarrhea, mothers are very anxious and wish their babies would get better quickly! So, they give their babies all kinds of medicines at once.

However, instead of getting better, the baby suffers from increasingly uncontrollable diarrhea, which may last for several months. This has a great impact on the baby's growth and development, and is sometimes even life-threatening. In order for the baby to grow up safely and healthily, mothers should know more about the prevention, treatment and care of baby diarrhea——

What is baby diarrhea?

Diarrhea in children is a disease caused by multiple pathogens and multiple causes. Most of the affected children are under 2 years old, and the incidence is particularly high in infants aged 6 to 11 months.

The incidence of diarrhea is second only to acute respiratory infection, and if it is not treated promptly and effectively, the mortality rate is also very high. The main cause of death is dehydration and electrolyte imbalance caused by diarrhea.

Why are babies prone to diarrhea?

Reason 1: Since babies aged 1-2 years old grow and develop very rapidly, their bodies need more nutrition and heat energy. However, the digestive organs are not fully developed and secrete fewer digestive enzymes. Therefore, the digestive ability is weak and diarrhea is prone to occur.

Reason 2: Since the nervous system has poor gastrointestinal regulation function, any slight change in diet, such as inability to adapt to added weaning foods, too many types added in a short period of time, or too much feeding at one time, sudden weaning; or improper diet, such as eating indigestible protein foods; low temperature and cold body speeding up intestinal peristalsis, too hot weather and reduced secretion of digestive juices, large temperature differences in autumn and easy cold in the lower abdomen, etc., can all cause diarrhea.

Reason 3: Due to the low immunity of the whole body and gastrointestinal tract, diarrhea can be caused as long as the food or tableware is slightly contaminated; babies are prone to respiratory infections due to their low resistance, and diarrhea can often occur when they suffer from colds, pneumonia, and otitis media.

The above are some of the symptoms and causes of baby diarrhea that we introduced to you, so parents should always pay attention to their children’s physical condition. If you find the above situation, you need to find a solution in time. We should also pay more attention to common sense in this area in our daily lives. I hope the above content can help you.