Diarrhea in children: Causes and prevention

Diarrhea is a common disease and is the leading cause of death in children em.Tre than 2 years with average of 2.2 episodes of acute diarrhea in 1 year.
Diarrhoea is a deadly disease, if not the management and timely treatment due to loss of water and electrolytes.
1. What is diarrhea?
Diarrhea is a condition of liquid stools more than 3 times within 24 hours. Diarrhea are classified into three types:
Diarrhea (TCC): Common is 70 - 80% of children with prolonged diarrhea
less than 14 days, usually about 5 - 7 days.
* Dysentery syndrome: go out more than once, in the sputum, blood.
* Prolonged diarrhea: diarrhea on 14 days.
2. Cause
* Due to Virus: There are many types of viruses that cause acute diarrhea, usually Rotavirus (30
- 50%), common in the winter.
* Due to the bacteria: E. coli, cholera, dysentery, and typhoid.
* Due to parasites: fungi, unicellular amoeba.
- Infants and children with malnutrition have a higher risk.
- Diarrhea is a disease transmitted by the fecal-oral pathogens in human feces carry diseases transmitted by insects (flies, incense, cockroaches, etc.) through food, contaminated drinking water.
3. Expression diarrhea
Children with diarrhea often have early signs such as poor feeding, appetite, bloating, vomiting.
The show lasted 3-6 hours before diarrhea. Child diarrhea stools
toe, or feces with blood, feces bloody mucus. Children stomach pain, vomiting.
When a child has diarrhea, it is important to monitor to detect signs
loss of water and salt. The signs should be monitored:
* When no dehydration:
- Children awake, normal fun.
- Do not drink the water.
- Smooth skin, sticky skin pinch (-).
* At the beginning of dehydration:
- Children crying.
- Thirst for drinking water children drink immediately.
- Eyes sunken, fontanel concave, wrinkled skin, crying without tears.

When a child has diarrhea, the need for more normal breastfeeding
* Children severe dehydration:
- Li packaging, coma.
- Do not be.
- Wrinkled skin, soft spots and bumps.
- Cold limbs.
Diarrhea due to loss of water and salt so can cause bloating due to loss
Potassium, or because the child vomiting will lose sodium, potassium.
4. What to do when a child has diarrhea
When a child has diarrhea levels lighter or new, no signs of dehydration, can be treated
attendance by children take a solution oresol to make water and electrolytes (note
phase in accordance with instructions), without Oresol can children drink soup
salt.
* How to drink:
- Children under 2 years of age to drink 50-100ml after each diarrhea. For children to drink at one and the
drink once a spoon.
- Children older than 2 years of age to drink 100-120ml after each diarrhea. For children to drink sips of the cup until the child out of thirst.
If your child has been vomiting, wait 10 minutes then continue to drink but slower
until the diarrhea stops.
- In the treatment of diarrhea at home, if after 3 days of no child support or have a 1 in 6
symptoms are loose many countries, continuous vomiting, thirst, poor diet, fever, stool
blood should take the child to the hospital for timely treatment.
5. Diets when diarrhea
Also fluids to prevent dehydration, diet is very important to prevent failure
nutrients and for fast recovery.
For infants, breastfeeding is continued normal feeding, increase the number of nursing. If
children not breastfed then diluted cow's milk ½ carrot soup with water. If your child has a food supplement,
than breast milk to feed your child or flour porridge cooked with pork, chicken, vegetable oil. Cook thinner than normal, allow your child to eat more than once and one at a time. For children to eat more fruit
nine or fruits such as bananas, oranges, mangoes, etc. to provide more potassium.
When a child has diarrhea, then moved to a normal diet and to eat each
1st meal in 2 weeks after diarrhea stops.

When a child has diarrhea, should not abstain cream too technical to lead to poor nutritional status
  Avoid children should not eat foods that have more fiber or low nutrients,
whole-grain cereals (maize, beans, etc.) is difficult to digest. Limit your intake of sweets, many
sugar (confectionery) or carbonated soft drinks.
When a child has diarrhea avoid taking antibiotics (only when dysentery syndrome
have bloody nose or cholera), took drugs and anti-vomiting without diarrhea only
by your doctor.
6. Prevention of acute diarrhea
This disease is transmitted by the gastrointestinal tract, so prevention should be
ensure that:
- Hygiene and food (cooked food, drinking boiled water, use clean water)
- Cleaning your child's eating utensils (bottles, pacifiers, bowls, plates, cups, spoons)
- Sanitation: Kill flies, incense, etc.
- Personal Hygiene: Wash hands with soap before feeding children, food preparation
children, after using the toilet and after changing diapers for children, etc.
- Handling true definition of child diarrhea.
- Implementation of breastfeeding mothers and children eat a reasonable supplement.
- Give full vaccination, especially measles vaccination for children with measles or
after cured susceptible to diarrhea and dysentery.