What to do if a four-month-old baby has diarrhea due to a cold stomach

The body resistance of a four-month-old baby is very poor. If parents do not pay attention to keeping the baby's abdomen warm, it is easy to cause diarrhea in the baby. For diarrhea caused by the baby catching a cold, parents must pay more attention to keeping the child's abdomen warm, try to give the baby more hot food, and take some medicine to relieve the symptoms of diarrhea when necessary. If the diarrhea is severe, you must go to the hospital for examination in time.

What should I do if my four-month-old baby catches a cold and has diarrhea?

This symptom of the child is believed to be caused by the child catching a cold and indigestion.

The child has had diarrhea recently. Please pay attention to keeping the abdomen warm, feed the child hot food, and take medicine.

It is recommended to give the child Xingpi Yanger Granules for treatment, or you can use some Mami Love. The abdomen needs to be kept warm, and you can use fried salt for hot compress. Give the child some porridge or something like that these few days.

For breastfed babies, the stool is yellow or golden yellow, with a uniform consistency like a paste or mushy paste, occasionally thin and slightly green, with a sour but not smelly taste, and they have two to four bowel movements a day. For bottle-fed babies, their stools are light yellow or earthy gray, dry and hard, strip-shaped, often contain milk curds, and have a distinct odor. They defecate 1 to 2 times a day. If you normally only have 1 to 2 bowel movements a day, but this suddenly increases to 5 to 6 times a day, you should consider whether you are ill. If the child has frequent bowel movements but is in generally good condition and has not lost weight, this does not indicate a disease. There are many reasons for diarrhea in infants and young children, which can be roughly divided into two categories: One is caused by non-infectious factors, such as improper diet or weather changes. Diarrhea caused by diet includes eating too much or too little; changes in food ingredients, adding too much sugar (conversely, too little sugar intake can easily cause constipation); adding complementary foods too quickly, causing discomfort, weaning children in hot weather, etc.

What are the methods of stopping diarrhea with food?

If a breastfed baby develops diarrhea, you can shorten the time of each feeding and let the baby eat the first half of the milk. Because the first half of breast milk contains more protein, it is easy to digest and rich in nutrition, while the second half contains more fat and is difficult to digest. If necessary, the mother can drink a large glass of light salt water half an hour to an hour before breastfeeding to dilute the milk and then breastfeed the child.

The following foods not only provide the necessary nutrients for babies, but also have certain antidiarrheal effects.

1. Scorched rice soup: Grind rice flour or milk cream into powder, fry until browned, then add water and appropriate amount of sugar, and boil until it becomes a thin paste. Scorched rice soup is easy to digest, and its carbonized structure has a good adsorption and antidiarrheal effect, making it the first choice food for infants with diarrhea.

2. Carrot soup: Carrots are alkaline foods. The pectin they contain can form stools and absorb pathogenic bacteria and toxins in the intestines. It is a good antidiarrheal and antibacterial food. The method of making carrot soup is as follows: wash the carrots, cut them to remove the stems, cut them into small pieces, add water and cook them until they are soft, then filter them with gauze to remove the residue, then add water to make soup (at a ratio of 500 grams of carrots to 1000 milliliters of water), and finally add sugar and boil. Take 2 to 3 times a day, 100 to 150 ml each time. Stop using after diarrhea improves.

3. Applesauce: Apple is also an alkaline food, containing pectin and tannic acid, which has the effects of absorption, astringency and antidiarrhea. Take a fresh, soft apple, cut it in half, and use a mixing spoon to scrape it into a paste.