2 Baby diarrhea

Children under the age of a constant state of liquid stool, as the baby's nutrition is special: mother's milk, a mixture. Because of this, the kid's chair is unsteady and not shaped, like an adult's. An alarm for mom should be the presence in the stool of mucus, blood or foam. If a child has stool as water, this too should be an occasion for consultation with the pediatrician. The normal state of the child's chair is yellow, sour smell, white lumps in the stool, six-time emptying. By the age of one - a chair 1-2 times a day. If the baby has a soft stool, this should not be a cause for concern.

Very dangerous baby diarrhea, which can lead to dehydration of the body. The causes of diarrhea in babies may be in particular the children's digestive system. Often, children can have a watery stool as a result of infection of intestinal infections, as a symptom of a cold, the body's reaction to certain types of medicines, the introduction of a new food. Most often in children up to a year, the disease that causes diarrhea is gastroenteritis, characterized by symptoms such as vomiting, nausea, especially in the morning, feverish condition. The chair with this disease is liquid, even watery, with impurities of blood and an unpleasant odor.

Causative factors may also be microbial and viral infections, the symptoms of which are not only diarrhea, but also abdominal pain, flatulence, high fever. With such diseases, which often affect children, like otitis media, pneumonia, influenza, SARS, too, there is liquid feces. If the baby is allergic to protein, dysbacteriosis and lactose insufficiency, he has diarrhea constantly, accompanied by a decrease in body weight and skin rash.

Teething teeth in a baby can also cause diarrhea, which occurs because of decreased immunity. Children pull dirty handles into their mouths and as a result get an intestinal disorder through the fault of infections that have got into it. Diseases of the digestive system - dyskinesia biliary tract, endocrine disorders - can cause a condition in which the baby's parents observe liquid feces.

There are a number of demonstrative features of intestinal distress in children that should become a signal for urgent medical examination of the child's condition:

• frequent vomiting and loose stool;
• increase in body temperature to critical levels - 38.5 ° C;
• abdominal pain;
• loss of appetite, refusal to eat;
• sluggish condition;
• feces with mucus, with foam and gases;
• stool with blood veins.

How to help a child with diarrhea?

You can not treat diarrhea yourself with a baby. It is necessary to call a doctor at the house, which will give a professional assessment of his condition and prescribe the necessary treatment.

If there is diarrhea in a baby, do not stop eating it for more than two days. The kid must have the strength to fight the disease. It is necessary to exclude from his diet only products that cause fermentation in the intestines: fermented milk, porridge in fatty milk, yoghurts, legumes, sweets, rolls, carbonated drinks. Eliminate non-infectious diarrhea helps sparing diet food with frequent and small portions, with meals 5-6 times a day.

If the reason for the baby's watery consistency of feces is food poisoning, the child must make a cleansing enema, give a drink enterosorbent: Activated charcoal, Enterosgel.

A frequent loose stool causes dehydration, so it is recommended to fill the body's fluid loss.

For this, the baby should be given a solution of Regidron or Glucosolan. One package of the drug is diluted in 1 liter of water and given to the child after each stool. You can prepare such an enterosorbent at home: 1 liter of boiled water is put 2 tsp.sugar, 1/3 tsp.baking soda and salt.

In a condition when the baby is still observed after therapeutic therapy of liquid feces, you can give the child a decoction of rice. For 7 cups of water, add 1 tsp.rice, boil the broth for several minutes and after cooling to give the baby one-third of a glass every two hours.

At the end of the therapy prescribed by the doctor after determining the causes of diarrhea, the child is prescribed drugs that help restore intestinal microflora. If diarrhea appears as one of the symptoms of an allergy, the treatment is prescribed by an allergist.

1 Symptom

Causes of loose stool may be of different nature. Often it is provoked:

1. Digestive infections, the causative agents of which can be salmonella, dysentery bacillus, viral infections - rotaviruses, enteroviruses.
2. Worms, which are characterized by such accompanying symptoms as loss of appetite, vomiting, pain in the navel.
3. Giardiasis caused by microorganisms - Giardia. Quite often it occurs in toddlers.
4. Nonspecific ulcerative colitis, which refers to non-infectious diseases. This is a serious pathology of the intestines, in which the mucous membrane is affected, ulcers are formed and diarrhea with blood appears.
5. Disease transmitted by inheritance - celiac disease, in which the human body is very sensitive to gluten( gluten), which leads to the defeat of the small intestine. He can be cured only after a complete refusal of products with gluten.
6. Stressful situations leading to a disturbance in the psychoemotional state.
7. Dysbacteriosis is a violation of the intestinal microflora, which appears as a result of impaired immunity, nutrition, antibiotic intake.
8. Irritable bowel syndrome is often a disease in children.
9. Intolerance to certain types of medicines. The disease is characterized by liquid stool as a result of taking antibiotics or iron preparations.
10. Food poisoning, accompanied by symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhea.
11. Deficiency of some enzymes necessary for the cleavage of individual food components.
12. Congenital diseases.
13. Inflammation of the appendix may cause an intestinal disorder for a while.
14. Abnormal conditions of the intestine, which can demonstrate feces of uncharacteristic color and consistency.
15. Operative diseases of peritoneum.

The causes of diarrhea can show an intestinal disorder, but with different discharge rates, different in color,smell. Feces may be with blood or mucus.

3 Intestinal upset

Liquid stool in an adult appears as a result of intestinal infection, due to improper diet, medication, or as a concomitant condition in a number of chronic diseases. One of the most common phenomena, when there is a frequent stool in an adult, is a woman's pregnancy. The causes of diarrhea during childbearing are many.

The most common of these are:

• injection of hormones, in which the pregnant woman relaxes muscle organs, including the intestines;
• the pressure of the uterus on the digestive system, which contributes to diarrhea;
• overeating;
• intestinal infections showing liquid feces sometimes with impurities of greenery and mucus;
• poisoning;
• chronic gastrointestinal diseases;
• intolerance of certain types of products;
• dysbacteriosis;
• hormonal failures.

If an intestinal disorder does not last for a long time, it can cause dangerous preconditions for a pregnant woman, lead to dehydration of the body, which is fraught with complications for the fetus. The difficulty of treating this condition during pregnancy makes the health of a woman and her baby even more vulnerable to this type of disturbance in the body's work. The long term diarrhea of ​​a woman in the first trimester of pregnancy, which can provoke a tone in the uterus and lead to a miscarriage, can be a big danger.

Therapeutic therapy of a pregnant woman consists in replenishing the water-salt balance of the body with the help of Regidron. To neutralize toxins, activated charcoal will work, strengthen the mucous barrier in the intestine of the smect. A large role in stabilizing the state of a pregnant woman is played by a plentiful drink, diet food, which excludes aggressive food. If a woman has a feces with blood veins, mucus, do not expect improvement after taking the sorbents. This symptom can talk about a serious illness. It is not advisable in this case to postpone the visit to the doctor. Only by analyzing the tests can he give a characterization of such manifestations.

To normalize the state of the intestinal microflora, doctors also allow pregnant women to take bifidobacteria, probiotics. It helps well during the adaptation of Lineks, Mezim forte, Bifidumbacterin.

4 Recommendations of

doctors To avoid the appearance of such an unsafe condition as diarrhea, doctors recommend adhering to certain rules that must be observed for children and adults throughout life:

1. Before consuming vegetables and fruits, they should be thoroughly washed.
2. Meat, fish and dairy products must be heat treated before meals.
3. Drink only pure and boiled water.
4. Do not eat after the expiration date.
5. If there is a long-term disorder of the bowel, you need to see a doctor immediately.
6. You can not buy products of questionable quality.
7. You can not treat diarrhea yourself, it can complicate the course of the disease.

5 Folk methods

Along with medicines that help get rid of diarrhea, there are many folk methods for its treatment.

If liquid feces are observed during emptying, you can normalize this condition by taking an effective folk remedy - dried blackberries, which are mixed with honey and take 1 tsp.three times a day.

Diarrhea helps to get rid of the camomile and chamomile. Plant flowers in the amount of 1 tbsp.l.pour a glass of boiling water. Insist. Strain, take 3 times a day for half a glass.

If feces have impurities of blood, this recipe helps to cure: 1 tsp.shredded branches of dog rose pour a glass of boiling water and rinse for 30 minutes in a water bath. Drink 1/3 cup three times a day.

Stopping diarrhea at home helps infusion of oak bark. For its preparation take 1 tsp.bark, pour 2 glasses of water. Insist several hours and drink 125 ml 2-4 times a day.

A good folk remedy, helping to cope with diarrhea, is the herb of St. John's wort. You need 10 grams of grass to brew in a glass of boiling water. Insist and take 1 tbsp.l.three times a day.

Blueberries, brewed like tea, when used 2-3 times a day help normalize the stool. A good remedy for diarrhea is a decoction of dried fruits - apples and pears. It is also an excellent remedy for dehydration of the body.

A good remedy that binds the intestines with diarrhea of ​​non-infectious nature is a decoction of rice, which is consumed every morning until the condition returns to normal.

Potato starch, diluted in an amount of 1 tsp, helps to exert a beneficial effect on the intestines.for 500 ml of boiled water and drunk at one time.