Rotavirus in children

We often tell the children and we ourselves know that dirty hands are bad. However, few people think about what can not turn out for the child is not washed hands well. One of the dangerous diseases can be rotavirus in children. Rotavirus is transmitted through dirty fruits, unwashed hands or toys that were brought home from the street, school or kindergarten. Infection through food enters the intestines of the child and disrupts the digestive process in the body. The incubation period of rotavirus is 1-5 days, adults can also get it, but children suffer more often, because of not completely formed immunity.

The first symptoms of rotavirus in children

1. The child's temperature rises sharply, vomiting begins, even on an empty stomach, a liquid stool with a sharp, unpleasant smell appears.
2. The child completely refuses to eat, there is a weakness and a breakdown.
3. It may suddenly appear cold, pain when swallowing and redness in the throat, grumbling in the abdomen.
4. The temperature rises to 39 ° and can last up to 5 days.

At such signs it is necessary to exclude from the ration of the child all dairy and sour-milk products. The danger of such a disease, is that when vomiting and diarrhea occurs very rapid dehydration of the body, so try to fill these losses with drinking small portions. Do not give too much drink, as this can cause the baby to vomit.

There is no special treatment for rotavirus in children. Rotavirus is often confused with food poisoning or diarrhea. Therefore, to avoid serious consequences, it is necessary to call the doctor at the first symptoms, which will give more exact recommendations. Drugs that kill this infection completely, no, so you need to try to normalize the work of the gastrointestinal tract. Most often in an easy form rotavirus without temerature and diarrhea is tolerated by adults, because they have higher immunity. Food after rotavirus at first should be lean. A child who has had a rotavirus infection should be transferred to a strict diet. You can drink it with a low-fat broth or a liquid rice porridge cooked on the water.

After 5-7 days with proper treatment rotavirus infection disappears. To exclude such a virus in a child, the prevention of rotavirus will help, which consists in the obligatory washing of dirty fruits, hands after walking and observance of all personal hygiene measures.