Infantile Diarrhoea or Diarrhea: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Diarrhea is opposite of constipation and it involves frequent passing of loose
and watery stools. There are many causes of diarrhea, which may be
infectious or noninfectious. If diarrhea is found in kids then it is
probably infectious because kids have weak immune power against the diarrhea. The main reason behind the diarrhea in kids is the lack of
water, calcium and minerals. Diarrhea found in the kids above one year
old is called infantile diarrhea. There are many causes of infantile diarrhea in kids. Some of them are as follow:
- The main reason behind infantile diarrhea in kids is when the mother stops breastfeeding. Breast milk contains the right balance of nutrients and most importantly in digestible form. Antibodies are passed to kid through breast milk which helps the kid’s body to fight against bacteria and other viruses.
- Cleanliness is very important for the kid’s health as cleanliness minimizes the chances of kids being exposed to bacteria and other viruses. Children, mothers of whom do not maintain cleanliness is likely to be a victim of infant diarrhea.
- Dry milk is another major source of infantile diarrhea as it can affect the digestive system hence causing diarrhea.
- Drinking too much fruit juice can also result infantile diarrhea.
Due to above mentioned cases, there are
many other diseases kids catch beside infantile diarrhea. A child gets
extremely weak due to the lack of minerals and water in the body. It is
very important to protect kids from infantile diarrhea. Mothers should
take the following precautions to save their kids from this disease.
- Don’t use dummy rubber nipples to make baby quiet as it exposes baby to germs that are on the rubber nipple.
- The mother should feed the baby with her own milk only because as there is no substitute of mother’s milk for better growth of the baby and it also saves baby from certain digestive diseases.
- Don’t feed any other food to the baby other than breast milk until he is 3 months old.
- Keep baby away from the messy and dirty environment and give special attention to maintain the cleanliness around the baby.
- Do not feed baby animal’s nutrients as it does not contain all the nutrients needed for proper and healthy growth of the baby.
Diarrhea can be controlled by three
methods; Dehydration, ORS and Feeding. As the name suggests,
‘Re hydration’ means to feed baby a fluid to level the water and minerals
needed by the body. For this purpose breast milk is given to the baby
more frequently as well as other liquid stuff. ORS contains salt and
mineral one pack of ORS should be mixed in one litter water and should
be given to baby time by time. Other soft foods mixed in milk should
also be given to the baby along with breast milk like boiled rice and
bananas, corn flakes etc.
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