Diarrhea is a fairly common condition in children, especially in the third grade. Therefore, taking care of them as well as having a reasonable diet and ensuring adequate nutrition will help children avoid and promptly relieve diarrhea.
There are many causes of children's diarrhea from polluted food, unclean drinking water due to not boiling thoroughly or boiling for too long, children's bottles are not hygienic...
Accordingly, parents need to determine the cause to have appropriate treatment methods. Determining the cause is also an important step to have a suitable way to treat or treat the disease.
Parents should actively supplement their children with enough water to prevent the risk of dehydration and electrolytes. In addition, parents also need to establish a diet that ensures nutrition and is easy to digest.
In particular, when children have diarrhea, parents should give them Oresol water, salted congee, salted rice water... Note that these drinks should not be left too salty, you should only mix about 3 grams of salt with 1 liter of water or you can use salt-free solutions including clean water (boiled water for immediate cooling), coconut water, unsweetened fruit juice.
If your baby is still breastfeeding, increase the frequency of feeding, each time the baby is breastfeeding for longer, and combine with Oresol supplementation after each feeding. Repeat this treatment until the child stops diarrhea.
In addition, parents should also pay attention to their children's daily meals to treat diarrhea soon. Make sure your child's diet is always full of nutrients because it will help intestinal function recover quickly. For children who are not able to eat enough during this time, it will cause prolonged diarrhea, the body is tired from dehydration...
Based on the age of the child, parents will have suitable menus. But in general, the food used for children before and after diarrhea does not change too much. Parents just need to pay attention to the fact that for children who have eaten a lot of rice, potatoes, chicken, pork, fish...
Add a lot of fiber from carrots, soursop and bananas. When cooking, foods should be processed softly (not dilued) and mashed to make it easier to digest, without affecting the intestines. At the same time, add 5 - 10ml of vegetable oil to each meal of your child to help supplement nutrients to the body.
