What causes neonatal enteritis?

Every parent hopes that their children can grow up healthy and happy. However, children have relatively poor resistance to the outside world. In addition, they will inevitably have symptoms of improper diet or digestive dysfunction in the process of growing up, which can easily lead to some intestinal diseases, such as enteritis. Sometimes this disease occurs in newborns. What is the reason? There are many reasons for this phenomenon. Let us take a closer look at them.

2. If the child is relatively young and often eats expired milk or is exposed to climate changes, it may cause diarrhea and abdominal pain, and even induce neonatal enteritis. When the child is young, catching a cold in the abdomen may also induce symptoms of neonatal enteritis.

3. The causes of neonatal enteritis are very complicated. If the drinking water is not clean or the child's intestines are fragile, or if the child is lactose intolerant, this may cause abdominal pain and symptoms of neonatal enteritis. Lack of a good diet or sudden overeating may also induce neonatal enteritis.

1. Intestinal infection: including viral and bacterial infections. Viruses are mostly rotavirus and norovirus infections, which manifest as watery stools; bacteria are mostly Escherichia coli and Salmonella infections, which manifest as pus, blood, and fishy odor in the stools.

2. Extraintestinal infection: Diarrhea caused by fever or other viruses, antibiotics, allergic factors, improper feeding, and even climatic factors.

Note:

The causes of neonatal enteritis are very complex, and this disease will have a great impact on patients. It may also cause severe abdominal pain or indigestion symptoms. If it is not treated well, it may even induce the harm of intussusception, so you should go to the hospital for examination in time.

1. For breastfed babies, do not stop feeding when they have diarrhea. You can appropriately reduce the amount of milk, shorten the feeding time, and extend the interval between feedings. Nursing mothers should eat less fat and drink more water before breastfeeding to dilute the milk and facilitate the baby's digestion.

2. For babies who are bottle-fed or mixed-fed, do not add new supplementary foods when they have diarrhea. When the baby has severe diarrhea, stop feeding milk and fast for 6 to 8 hours. During the fasting period, you can feed carrot soup, scorched rice soup, rice soup and applesauce. Carrot soup is low in calories, little in fat, and contains fruit acids and vitamins, which can help form stools. Apple fibers are finer, have less irritation to the intestines, are low in fat, and contain fruit acids, which have an astringent effect. Older babies can eat yam porridge, egg drop porridge, soft noodles, etc., but the amount should be reduced. If the baby has problems such as little urine, thirst, dry lips, etc., he should drink oral rehydration saline or sugar and salt water.

3. Children should not use antidiarrheal drugs—it may be dangerous. Antidiarrheal drugs have a theoretical risk of complications, although clinical experience suggests that this is unlikely, and are not recommended in cases of diarrhea with blood in the stool or fever.

4. Do not eat fried, pan-fried, raw, cold or high-fiber foods. Choose easily digestible thin noodles, stewed noodles, wontons, tender vegetable leaves, fish, shrimp, eggs and bean products to give the intestines a rest.

5. If patients with chronic enteritis are dehydrated, they can drink some light salt water, vegetable soup, rice soup, fruit juice, rice porridge, etc. to replenish water, salt and vitamins.