What to do if your 7 month old baby has diarrhea

A 7-month-old baby is still quite young. At this time, the body's resistance is relatively weak and the digestive system is not yet perfect. Many factors may cause diarrhea in children. Diarrhea has a serious impact on children's health and will cause rapid loss of nutrition. Effective measures must be taken in a timely manner to deal with it. So, what should I do if my 7-month-old baby has diarrhea? Let’s take a closer look below.

Generally speaking, diarrhea in babies is caused by indigestion. On the other hand, a seven-month-old baby has already started eating complementary foods, so we cannot completely deny that infectious diarrhea is caused by food. Therefore, if a seven-month-old baby has diarrhea, it is recommended to conduct a routine stool examination and treat the baby for indigestion after excluding infection factors.

If the baby has indigestion, parents should strengthen the feeding and care of the baby: ① Feed mainly with formula milk, and add appropriate amount of light complementary food; ② Take appropriate spleen-strengthening Chinese medicine orally, such as Infant Spleen-Strengthening Oral Liquid, Pi Ke Xin, Xing Pi Yang Er Granules, etc.; ③ If the diarrhea lasts for a long time or the stool characteristics are not good, take Smecta orally before meals to protect the gastrointestinal mucosa and prevent secondary infection; ④ Check stool routine regularly.

In addition, parents should also remember not to feed the baby so many bananas, and make sure to drink plenty of water. If the baby has severe diarrhea, some rehydration salts should be given.

In addition to dietary care, parents can also massage their babies: before going to bed every day, touch the two ribs below the baby's nipples, and gently stroke from the middle to the outside thirty or forty times.

Usually when we are sick, we think of taking medicine, hoping that we will get better soon. But a six-month-old baby is still young, and even if he has diarrhea, he cannot take baby medicine casually. At this time, you can give your baby some folk remedies, such as applesauce, carrot paste, or fry the rice until it turns yellow and then boil it in water. You can feed your baby some anti-diarrhea food.

1. Scorched rice soup. It is said that babies with diarrhea can stop diarrhea by eating some scorched rice soup. Scorched rice soup is actually rice fried until it turns yellow, then boiled in water, and then cooked until the rice is soft. But Baikejun does not recommend using this method to help your baby stop diarrhea.

2. Applesauce can stop diarrhea. Apples contain pectin and tannic acid, which have an antidiarrheal effect. First of all, regardless of whether it can stop diarrhea, the key point is that it will not have any effect on the baby's body after eating it. Moreover, the baby's appetite may become worse after diarrhea, so it is worth trying to give the baby some applesauce.

3. Carrot puree. Carrots also contain pectin, which can also stop diarrhea. However, when making carrot puree, you must ensure that the carrots are cooked thoroughly so that there will be no major problems for your baby to eat them.