1 Norm or pathology?

For children not older than 2 years, loose stools are considered normal, even if they have mucus. After all, such a reaction of the body often occurs due to overeating or because of an individual reaction to consumed food. Sometimes diarrhea begins because of sudden climate change.

Often diarrhea with mucus appears in a beginner to get used to the usual food of the baby, especially during the feeding season. This phenomenon indicates an unprepared work of the digestive tract. The result of inability to cope with the load becomes diarrhea. As a rule, unpleasant symptoms completely disappear after 6-12 hours without the use of medicines.

To prevent a child from getting a loose stool with mucus, it is recommended to give small fractions of new products.

Sometimes a loose stool occurs as a result of teething, accompanied by painful sensations.

Mucous diarrhea often becomes a manifestation of serious diseases. To the similar reasons concern:

1. Intestinal infection. Dangerous pathogens of the disease are salmonella, shigella, and enterobacteria. In addition to the liquid stool, the temperature will increase significantly, nausea( sometimes with vomiting), weakness. Rapid dehydration of the baby's body contributes to a significant lowering of blood pressure. In this case, it is impossible to do without qualified medical care.
2. Clover invasion. If the child's body is infected with parasites, diarrhea with an admixture of mucus is a common occurrence. Such an ailment is accompanied by regular pain in the abdomen and moderate fever. Before proceeding to treatment, it is necessary to establish which pathogen has caused the disease state.

2 Response to bowel disease

In some cases, a loose stool with mucus develops in children as a chronic pathology of the gastrointestinal tract. Gradually, the condition of a small patient worsens, sleep is disturbed and appetite is lost. Malnutrition is aggravated by nausea, the child is suffering from heartburn. When palpation in the epigastric region, pain is felt. More adult children complain of an unpleasant aftertaste in the mouth( bitterness) and bloating. In addition to the listed symptoms in chronic diseases, diarrhea alternates with constipation.

Diseases of the digestive tract always provoke a change in stool. However, in such cases, in addition to the mucous diarrhea in the feces, there are particles of food that are not digested, and sometimes there is blood.

For a child's organism, chronic enterocolitis is a great danger. This pathology can provoke a developmental delay in children, causing a violation of metabolic processes.

What should I do if diarrhea is accompanied by unpleasant signs of a chronic illness? First of all, you should immediately seek advice from an experienced gastroenterologist, then go through detailed diagnosis. The effectiveness of treatment and the speed of recovery of the child's normal state of health depend on a timely diagnosed cause of the pathology and strict adherence to complex therapy.

3 Recommended measures

If the child has diarrhea with mucus, what should I do to relieve symptoms and not cause him more harm? It should be understood that one can not do without a visit to a doctor. However, before his visit, you must adhere to certain rules:

1. Prevent dehydration. In pharmacies there are saline solutions, with which you can cope with the situation.
2. Children-babies try instead of the usual foods to feed breast milk or a mixture.
3. If the symptoms of the disease are pronounced, that is, you can determine that this is an acute stage, it is better at all to give up feeding. Such measures help to prevent the deterioration of the baby.
4. It is important to take care of creating favorable conditions in the apartment. The child should have free access to the toilet room, and other rooms should be well ventilated.
5. If mucous diarrhea is accompanied by a significant increase in temperature, you can use antipyretic drugs. But when using them, you should always keep accurate dosages. Do not take any other medicines without the appointment of a doctor.
6. To prevent skin irritation after often recurring diarrhea, it is necessary to wash it off as often as possible and use special softening baby creams.
7. When unpleasant symptoms disappear, it is recommended to follow a diet( not less than a week).

4 Treatment of diarrhea and recovery of the child's body

If the child has diarrhea, the main way to fight the disease is drug therapy. Enzyme medications( Mezim or Festal) can be prescribed after identifying the cause that caused the disorder.

The most effective means of diarrhea are probiotics( Linex, Biffiff).Sometimes the baby is troubled by abdominal pain, therefore, in order to relieve painful symptoms, Paracetamol is recommended.

Bacteriophage preparations( Intestibacteriophage), as well as intestinal antiseptics( Nifuroxazide) are often prescribed for the control of staphylococcal or klebsiella infections.

After the pharmacotherapy of diarrhea in children of many parents, the question is: how to restore the baby's body? The main condition for rapid normalization of the general condition of the baby is a diet with proper diet. It is necessary to completely abandon the use of dairy products( exclude breast milk) and 2 weeks not to use raw fruits or vegetables. Instead, focus on porridge, low-fat soups, cook boiled poultry.

During the recovery of the body after a mucous liquid stool it is permissible to add bananas, rusks and baked apples to the diet, and cook the carrots or potatoes. Instead of milk it is better to cook porridge on the water. Sweets and pastries( biscuits, chocolate, caramel) to give the child at this time is strictly prohibited. The same goes for carbonated drinks.

If the child is small and visits a pre-school, it is best to leave it at home until the state is fully normal. In addition, it is recommended to avoid crowded places, because the baby's organism in this period is too susceptible to infections. It is necessary to allocate time for long daily walks on fresh air and to provide high-grade, long sleep. But communication with animals must be minimized.

It is known that diarrhea is a common phenomenon in children and adults. However, diarrhea with mucus can be both the usual reaction of the body to consumed food, so one of the precursors of the development of a dangerous infection. To avoid the occurrence of serious complications in the child, you should as soon as possible seek qualified medical help.