Diarrhea in newborns can be both a single symptom of a complex disease, and the manifestation of dysbiosis.
What is dangerous diarrhea?
This kind of disease is dangerous for a young child by dehydration. During diarrhea, a large amount of liquid is expelled from the body together with minerals. As a consequence, the intestinal mucosa becomes a fairly vulnerable target for numerous bacteria and viruses. As a result of the extreme degree of dehydration, the temperature in the baby grows and the condition requires urgent hospitalization.
How to recognize diarrhea?
In the first month of life, the stool in children can be after each feeding, and this is usually considered the norm. Consistency in most cases resembles a gruel, and some parents seem liquid.
Symptoms of what the newborn suffers can be the following symptoms:
- the child cats 2 times more often than usual;
- feces becomes watery, have a greenish color;
- the stool has a pungent odor;
- bloating is observed.
At the same time, the act of defecation has its own peculiarities: the stools are sprayed with a "fountain". In addition, you can determine diarrhea and the behavior of the baby: he often cries, refuses to eat, behaves restlessly.
In especially severe cases, due to severe dehydration the child's body can become pasty and flabby, and on the glutes appear jaundices and intertrigo.
Causes
The reasons for diarrhea in a newborn child can be a large number, so sometimes it is almost impossible to install one of them. Thus, when a baby is breastfed, the stool is almost completely dependent on the mother's diet. For example, if a mother eats prunes, cabbage, beets, the likelihood of diarrhea in her baby is very high.
Often diarrhea occurs when a child is transferred from breastfeeding to artificial feeding. But nevertheless, the main cause of stool disorders at this age are infections. Perhaps the most common recently is rotavirus . Infection occurs by airborne and by contact.
In addition to the above, the cause of diarrhea in children in the first year of life can be erupting teeth. In this diarrhea lasts more than one day, but is easily eliminated by taking medications.
What should mom do?
Many mothers, first encountering diarrhea in a newborn, do not know what to do. In such a situation, the most important thing is not to hesitate, but at the first suspicions to call a doctor on the house, which examining the baby, will establish the cause.
Mom can also relieve the state of her child by herself. So, it is necessary to give more drinking, if the child is breast-feeding - more often put to the chest. This will help to avoid the development of dehydration.
In addition, at an older age, Regidron is prescribed to replenish fluid. To prepare it, the contents of the sachet are diluted in 1 liter of warm, boiled water.
To fasten the chair, the baby is allowed to give rice porridge from the age of 4 months, which copes well with diarrhea.
An obligatory condition that the mother must observe in this case is hygiene. After each diaper change, it is necessary to carry out hand treatment. In addition, parents are obliged to ensure that the baby does not take dirty toys into the mouth.
When temperature is connected, it is necessary to use antipyretic drugs, which the doctor appointed. In this case, you can suspect an infection, a symptom of which is diarrhea.
Thus, parents, with the development of their newborn diarrhea, must first of all prevent the development of dehydration, which is their main task.