What am I doing with the kid has diarrhea in a long time?

Called prolonged diarrhea when this condition lasts more than 14 days. The disease often leads to severe malnutrition and easy death.

When children have long diarrhea, reduced intake of food, the absorption of the intestinal mucosa also decreases while nutritional requirements increase in response to metabolism (due to fever), recovery of damaged intestinal cells In return, compensate for protein loss through the intestine.

In the first year of life, for every 5 children with acute diarrhea, one changes to persistent diarrhea. This risk is 1/10 in the second year of 3% in the third year. Children who are prone to prolonged diarrhea are malnourished children, micronutrient deficiency (vitamin A, zinc, iron .), HIV / AIDS, children often have diarrhea, measles, dysentery, and use Prolonged antibiotics cause bacterial disorder, artificial feeding, lactose intolerance, animal milk protein allergy.

Nutrition plays an important role in the treatment of prolonged diarrhea Proper nourishment has the effect of promoting early recovery of intestinal mucosal injury, shortening the duration of diarrhea. Therefore, it is recommended to use easily digestible digestible foods, high nutritional value, diets with sufficient energy protein. Pay attention to poor lactose intolerance, cow's milk protein allergy, and high sugar and salt-rich foods and drinks, which increase osmolality, which is easy to cause diarrhea.

Diet when children have prolonged diarrhea

Children under 6 months old:

When children have diarrhea, it is necessary to breastfeed their babies many times a day. (Photo: Dan Tri) Continue to breastfeed and breastfeed many times a day. If the baby is not breastfed, temporarily dilute the animal's milk or use lactose-free cow's milk or soy milk.

Children 6-12 months: Continue to breastfeed. Dilute animal milk with porridge to reduce lactose or yogurt, soy milk levels by 50%. Complementary foods have 4 food groups (cereals, animal protein or legumes, green vegetables, grease) that are easy to digest, have appropriate osmotic concentrations. Divide food into many meals a day.

Children 1-3 years: Breastfeeding or eating diluted animal milk, yogurt, soy milk. Guaranteed energy of 100-110 kcal / kg per day. Processing food in soft, liquid form. Chicken chopped into porridge and added vegetable oil. Chicken is easily absorbed, has the effect of recovering early intestinal mucosal injury, shortening the time of diarrhea.

When children support diarrhea, gradually switch to a normal diet by age and give one meal a day for a day, lasting one month after being cured.

Use the drug in prolonged diarrhea

Use antibiotics when children have dysentery, combined infection.

Provide more vitamins (A, B1, C) and micro minerals (iron, zinc).

If children are severely malnourished, give vitamin A high doses. Children under 6 months 50,000 units. Children under 1 year old 100,000 units. Children over 1 year old 200,000 units.

Anti-dehydration: Only at home, rehydration by oral route when the child has diarrhea has not shown signs of dehydration (awake, thirsty, sticky skin quickly). If diarrhea continues to be at risk, the child must be treated at a medical facility.