Small children quite often have an indigestion. The causes of diarrhea can be various, it is necessary to be able to distinguish rather safe easily removable violation of digestion from the serious diseases demanding urgent medical care.
Chair frequency at babies – rather individual indicator. For some kids and about ten depletions of intestines in day it is considered norm. The chair delay for 2-3 days also is not always symptom of a serious disease.
The main symptoms of a diarrhea at babies the following: the child suddenly begins to soil more often a diaper, the consistence of a chair changes on liquid and watery, it "vypryskivatsya" outside. The Kcal gains greenish color.
The reasons of a similar indisposition can be various: usually it is infections, is more rare – food. The most widespread causative agent of a diarrhea of babies is the rotavirus infection. Functions of intestines can be broken also as a result of introduction of certain bacteria, for example, of salmonellas and also fungi and parasites. Development of intestinal infection can happen both quickly, and rather slowly: at the kid the appetite vanishes, it becomes whimsical. Also the child's weight decreases or stands still. Muscles and skin of the kid become flabby. At a sharp onset of the illness the quantity of a chair increases strongly, inflated a tummy, temperature increases, color a calla changes, from it the pungent smell proceeds. In this case it is necessary to see urgently a doctor and to undergo full treatment. It should be taken into account also the fact that digestive system of kids is very sensitive and can react frustration to an infection of uric or upper airways. Disorder of digestion of the child can be also in violation of its food. If the kid eats the serious, stale or incorrectly cooked food, his stomach is not able to process it. Food passes in intestines in an undigested look. There it is split by bacteria, protein and carbohydrates begin to wander, as leads to a diarrhea. At some babies the diarrhea in connection with replacement of breastfeeding on artificial begins and also at introduction to a diet of new food. If the cause of a diarrhea the baby had a violation of a diet, it is necessary to continue breastfeeding and to make up for loss of liquid. Between feedings the doctors recommend to give to the child small single doses one of special solutions for rehydration. The children raised artificially need to be fed with dairy mix habitual to them, in breaks also giving solution for rehydration. The dosage and other recommendations about intake of this solution to you will be made by the pediatrician. If the kid is less than 6 months old, dilute mix in a proportion 1:2 (1 part of the baby food made in the usual way and 2 parts of water), for the second day – in a proportion 1:1. Then gradually increase concentration to usual norm. It is possible to limit completely the child in meal approximately for 12-24 hours. At this time it is recommended to give it the sweetened boiled water with 2 teaspoons of sugar (on 250 ml of water) divorced in it. If the slight diarrhea at the baby does not pass within 2-3 days, see a doctor. If the child's food, besides milk, includes also firm food, exclude it from food until the diarrhea does not pass. Then begin to enter firm food in the small portions: in the first day –1/3 habitual portions, in the second – 2/3, in the third – a full portion. Consider that during indigestion it is impossible to enter new products into a children's diet.