Unlike adults, dehydration at children develops promptly. Parents need to watch a condition of the kid and to control amount of the liquid drunk by the child to avoid unpleasant consequences for his health.
Why there is dehydration
It is regularly important to children of early and preschool age to drink water to avoid dehydration. Especially it is relevant in hot weather and those days when the child is sick. To fill water balance, frequent intake of liquid, but small volumes is necessary for the child. It can be clear water, juice or tea. It is not recommended to offer the child the carbonated drinks harmful to teeth and mucous a stomach. The standard daily rate of liquid for babies is 100-200 ml, for children of preschool age - 1.2-1.7 l, for children aged from 7 up to 12 years - 1.7-2 l, and to teenagers, also as well as the adult, it is necessary to drink not less than 2 l of water a day. At the same time in a condition of a disease the need for drink sharply increases.
The deficiency of liquid can develop in very hot day or at stay in the stuffy room. To avoid it, you regularly give to drink to the child, avoid outdoor games and clothes from dense fabrics. The risk of dehydration increases if the child has a heat, a diarrhea, vomiting. At high temperature offer the child warm drinks, and at disorder of digestion - clear water or electrolytic solutions. Intestinal viruses or infections demand the child's vypaivaniye in the small portions on 1-2 tsps each 5 minutes. Fruit juice and teas in this case are contraindicated as they irritate mucous digestive tract and can aggravate a condition of the kid. If the child refuses to drink because it is painful to it to swallow, it is possible to facilitate a condition of the child by means of local children's anesthetics.
Symptoms of dehydration
If your child still wears diapers, watch that the otkhozhdeniye of urine occurred regularly, everyone half an hour-hour. If the diaper remains dry within 5-6 hours, at your child the dehydration developed and liquid completion is required. Also pay attention to color and a smell of urine. Than less often the child pisat, especially concentrated is an urine. It has dark color and sharper, than usually, began to smell. Loss of liquid is followed by a general malaise. The child can become sluggish, apathetic, sleepy. Normal at children of a lip and a mouth are always moisturized and have pink color. If you noticed that lips of the kid became dry and brightened, it is classical symptom of dehydration of an organism. Sometimes at deficiency of liquid children cry without tears. Symptoms of severe dehydration at which intravenous drop input of the fluid can be necessary are cold pale hands and legs, "marble" skin, dizziness, nonsense, strong drowsiness or excessive excitement, shadows under the eyes.