Children with diarrhea

Children with diarrhea is a common disease and is the leading cause of death in children em.Tre than 2 years old on average with 1-2 acute diarrhea in one year. Diarrhoea is a deadly disease, if not the management and timely treatment due to loss of water and electrolytes.



1. Children with 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.

- Children with acute diarrhea disease is 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. Children splash liquid diarrhea, or differential blood, mucus and blood. Children stomach pain, vomiting.

When a child has diarrhea, it is important to monitor in order to detect signs of dehydration and salt loss. The signs should be monitored:

* When no dehydration:
- Children awake, normal fun.

- Do not drink the water.

- Smooth skin, sticky skin pinched.

* At the beginning of dehydration:
- Children crying.

- Thirst for drinking water children drink immediately.

- Eyes sunken, fontanel concave, wrinkled skin, crying without tears.

* Children severe dehydration:
- Li packaging, coma.

- Do not be.

- Wrinkled skin, soft spots and bumps.

- Cold limbs.

Children with acute diarrhea due to loss of water and salt (sodium, potassium) so can cause bloating.



 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 at home by children take a solution oresol to make water and electrolytes (note mixed in accordance with the instructions), if not have oresol can for young drink porridge salt.

* How to drink:
- Children under 2 years of age to drink 50-100ml after each diarrhea. For children to drink less and 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, bloody stools need to take the child to the hospital hospital for timely treatment.

5. When a child has diarrhea diet
Also fluids to prevent dehydration, diet is very important to prevent malnutrition and to quickly recover.

For infants, breastfeeding is continued normal feeding, increase the number of nursing. If the child is not breastfeeding, cow's milk diluted ½ carrot soup with water. If your child has a food supplement, in addition to breast milk for your child to eat flour or 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 berries 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 1 meal per day for 2 weeks after diarrhea stops.

Avoid children should not eat foods with more fiber or less nutrients, whole grain cereals (maize, beans, etc.) is difficult to digest. Limit sweets, sugar (confectionery) or carbonated soft drinks.

When a child has diarrhea, avoid taking antibiotics (only when dysentery syndrome have bloody nose or cholera), held diarrhea and anti-nausea drugs without prescription your doctor.

6. Prevention of acute diarrhea
This disease is transmitted by the gastrointestinal tract, so prevention should be guaranteed:

- 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, when preparing baby food, 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 cure susceptible to diarrhea and dysentery.