How to treat loose stools the baby

Loose stools baby may be the consequence of variety of diseases. In this case, you must first remove the causes of diarrhea, and passing with this take action on replacing lost fluid and salts. If the child has diarrhea is not accompanied by vomiting, fever, lethargy and sleepiness, you can try to handle it on your own. If the baby continues to deteriorate, consult a doctor.

First and foremost, you need to buy at the pharmacy saline solution "Regidron", "Glucosamine" or "Tsitraglyukosolan". Dilute with water according to the instructions given on the packet and give in a dosage corresponding to the age of the baby. So, children under years shows 130-200 ml per 1 kg weight of child per day, children from one year up to 5 years 100-170 ml per 1 kg of body weight of the child, and children ages 6 to 10 years old the dosage is reduced by up to 75-110 ml per 1 kg of body weight.

To judge that the baby gets plenty of fluids, regular urination with normal amount of urine portions. In addition to saline, give the child boiled water, camomile tea, fruit drinks, fruit drinks, mineral water without gas. Of the drugs shown sorbents. We are talking about "Enterosgel", charcoal, "Filtrol", "Smecta", "Polifepan", etc. If diarrhea is accompanied by increased flatulence and intestinal colic, you can give the baby "Drops", "Displacer" or "Sub-simplex".

Of antispasmodics allowed "no-Spa", "Papaverine" or "Duspatalin", but before applying best to consult a doctor. Antidiarrheal such a "holding" drugs like "Imodium" and "Lopedium" can be treated children from 6 years with very frequent chair, exhausting child. However, these drugs have contraindications and is dysentery, flatulence, colitis and tendency to constipation.

Eliminate from the diet of the child, all gas-forming and reinforcing the reduction of the intestine products. Don't give him fatty, fried, smoked food, pickles, milk, cabbage, peas, beans, onions, tomatoes, mushrooms, fresh pastries, black bread, grapes, pears, cucumbers, eggplant, etc. All the fruits and vegetables that eats the kid, needs to be thermally treated. Prepare the child jelly, congee, cook porridge on the water. To "fix" the chair will help cherries, blueberries, cranberries, quince, persimmon etc. mashed potatoes and cook with water and meat and fish is better to give boiled or in the form of steam cutlets.

A child with diarrhea, breastfeeding, to stop breastfeeding is impossible. He shows such pharmacological drug like "Enzyme lactase". Iskusstvennomu with similar problems translate into lactose free, soy or low-lactose mixture. If your child is prone to allergies, you can prepare such a "holding" herbal collection: sage leaves, fennel fruit and bark of the oak to take in equal shares. One tablespoon of the mixture pour 1 Cup of cool water. After 10 minutes, put a container of infusion on the fire and boil for a quarter of an hour. After cool, strain and give the child ¼ - 1/3 Cup three times a day before meals.