Briefly describe the five major causes of diarrhea in children

As a common childhood disease, pediatric diarrhea is easy to cause children to be weak, dehydrated, emaciated, and even malnourished, which is not conducive to the healthy growth of children. When children have diarrhea, parents should analyze the causes, dialectical conditioning, and effectively stop diarrhea.

(1) Physiological diarrhea

Some babies start to have diarrhea not long after birth, and their stools are thin, yellowish green or yellowish, which can last for many months, and some can even last for half a year. In addition to diarrhea, the child has no other symptoms, eats normally, and is mentally normal, which is called pediatric physiological diarrhea. Children who are generally exclusively breastfed for less than six months are prone to physiological diarrhea.

To prevent physiological diarrhea in children, mothers should try to eat less raw and cold foods, especially crabs and shrimps that are cold. When children have physiological diarrhea, parents should pay attention to changing their children's diapers or diapers frequently to keep their bodies clean and fresh. Physiological diarrhea generally does not require special medication, and as the child grows older and the resistance increases, this symptom will disappear.

(2) Accumulation of food diarrhea

Children are still young, the development of body organs is not yet perfect, the spleen and stomach are relatively weak, and excessive diet is easy to cause food accumulation, leading to digestive disorders, and then cause diarrhea.

Generally speaking, after four months, parents can add complementary foods to their children, mainly rice noodles, millet porridge and other easily digestible foods. The size of the child's stomach is small, the spleen and stomach are weak, the digestion and absorption function is relatively weak, the amount added by the parents can not be too much at one time, too much complementary food will ferment in the child's body, accumulate food, cause indigestion or make the digestive system disordered. If the mother suddenly adds complementary foods before weaning, the food composition of the child's gastrointestinal intake will suddenly change, which will also cause digestive disorders and cause diarrhea.

For diarrhea caused by accumulated food, the main prevention method is to correctly add complementary foods. Generally speaking, children from four months later, you can slowly add complementary food, complementary food can start from two spoonfuls of rice noodles, at first can not be too thick, if the child's stool is normal, indicating its gastrointestinal adaptation, parents can slowly increase the amount and slowly increase the type of complementary food, such as from carrot rice flour and other plant rice noodles slowly transition to meat rice noodles. Because meat supplements are relatively difficult to digest, when parents feed meat supplements to their children, they should not add too much at one time, so as not to increase the gastrointestinal burden on their children.

(3) Lactose intolerance

Lactose intolerance is also one of the causes of diarrhea in children. The lactose in dairy products needs its digestive enzyme to help with digestion, and if the child's body lacks this enzyme, the child will not be able to digest the lactose in the dairy product, resulting in diarrhea.

After weaning, the child mainly eats grains, and the chance of eating milk or dairy products is greatly reduced, and over time, the lactase activity in the body slowly declines, and finally evolves into lactase deficiency. There is also a situation in which the child often has diarrhea, the cells of the gastrointestinal mucosa are damaged, and the ability to secrete lactase is reduced. There are also some children who are congenitally lactase-free, and are prone to diarrhea whether they drink breast milk or other dairy products. Some children will have diarrhea if they drink milk on an empty stomach, but if they eat other foods at the same time as drinking milk, such as eating some cereals such as bread and biscuits, it can alleviate diarrhea symptoms. Parents can feed their children a small number of times when feeding dairy products.

Lactose intolerant children can choose to drink yogurt, because yogurt has lactobacilli, it can break down lactose, easy to be digested and absorbed by children, can avoid diarrhea caused by lactose intolerance.

For lactose intolerant diarrhea, parents can reduce their child's dairy intake, and if their child drinks formula, parents can consider changing the brand for their child. For children with more serious diarrhea, parents can also choose milk powder without lactose.

(4) Autumn diarrhea

Autumn diarrhea occurs mostly in autumn, and the temperature difference in autumn is large, the child's gastrointestinal function is weakened, and the resistance and immunity are reduced. Autumn diarrhea is mostly caused by rotavirus. Rotavirus is more active during the cold, dry season, especially autumn.

In order to prevent children from suffering from rotavirus from suffering from autumn diarrhea, parents try not to take their children to crowded places. Parents should pay attention to the child's life hygiene, the child's toys should be cleaned frequently, and the child's clothes should be disinfected frequently. In addition, the autumn weather from hot to cold, parents should prevent their children from catching colds, give children more vegetables and fruits, and enhance their resistance.

If the child has autumn diarrhea, in order to prevent dehydration, parents must pay attention to hydrating the child and ensure the child's water intake. If breast milk has been weaned, children within half a year of age can drink millet soup, formula milk powder, milk powder should not be too thick, children over half a year old can eat noodles, porridge or vegetables, fruit puree and other easily digestible foods. If your child is in the transition period to add complementary foods, meat and rice noodles can be paused and fed until the diarrhea has eased.

In general, autumn diarrhea caused by rotavirus can heal itself in five to ten days if properly cared for. If your child's condition is more serious, seek medical attention in time.

(5) Cold diarrhea

If your child eats raw and cold food, or if you have a cold stomach at night when you go to bed, it is also easy to cause diarrhea. Abdominal cold will cause the child's gastrointestinal irritation, peristalsis is accelerated, and the food in the stomach is also aggravated, which affects the digestion and absorption of food, and also increases the number of bowel movements. Diarrhea caused by a cold, the symptoms are generally loose stools, watery, at the same time, children may also have symptoms of chills, dizziness.