A newborn child needs constant dynamic observation from the pediatrician. In one month, the baby is prescribed a large number of tests to assess the baby's health. Including the doctor can appoint or nominate to hand over a feces on a dysbacteriosis. By results of analyzes he can find out, that in a feces at the child enterokokki are raised or increased.
Beginning with birth, enterococci colonize the intestinal microflora. In a child under one year of age, their amount is approximately 100 million per gram of feces. Initially, they perform a rather useful function: they promote the assimilation of sugar, the synthesis of vitamins, the destruction of opportunistic microorganisms. However, exceeding their number requires close attention, since they can cause a number of serious diseases:
- meningitis;
- diverticulitis;
- bacteremia;
- defeat of the genitourinary system;
- chronic enteritis;
- colitis;
- chronic gastritis.
Enterococci in the feces of the baby: should they be treated?
Enterococci can be contained in breast milk. Therefore, if the baby is breastfed, it is possible that it is the mother that "infects" him. In this case, it is necessary to take breast milk to the laboratory for examination. Breastfeeding does not stop.
Since at such an early age the baby's immune system is still poorly developed and is only at the stage of formation, any treatment involving the use of antibiotics can promote the growth of enterococci. Therefore, it is important not so much to treat a fecal enterococcus in a child, how to restore the intestinal microflora in order to ensure the optimal level of bifido- and lactobacilli. In this case, the doctor can prescribe a creon or bacteriophage. However, it should be remembered that the treatment can be started only on the condition that the amount of enterococci in the feces considerably exceeds the normative indices. If their increase is uncritical, then enterococci in children do not need treatment.