How is diarrhea treated in children?
Reimbursement of the liquid lost by a small body must be started as soon as possible. To do this, it is best to use special solutions for the preparation of which powders are used, for example, Regidron.
If there is no possibility to leave a child with someone and go to a pharmacy, you can prepare a similar solution yourself. So for 1 liter of boiled water you need to take 1 teaspoon of salt and 4 tablespoons of sugar. The resulting solution should be given to drink the child every 30-60 minutes. The volume of liquid for drinking can be calculated as follows: 50 ml / kg.
In case the diarrhea lasts more than 4 hours, the volume of drinking liquid is increased and given at the rate of 140 ml / kg, after each act of defecation.
In the treatment of diarrhea in an infant, the liquid for drinking is replaced with breast milk or a mixture. In severe cases of dehydration of young children, they are hospitalized without fail and reconstructed the volume of lost fluid by injecting solutions intravenously.
Special attention in the treatment of diarrhea in a child, when he defecates, literally with water, is given a diet. So to feed the baby is necessary as usual, but it is necessary to increase the share of meat, flour products, as well as give more boiled vegetables, sour-milk products. Sweets at the time of treatment is better to exclude.
What drugs can be used for diarrhea?
If the mother assumes that the diarrhea in the child is caused by the use of any products, then in such cases it will be sufficient to take the adsorbent, to which the activated carbon belongs.