Treatment of diarrhea in children

Diarrhea is always unpleasant and uncomfortable, and the child especially. Treatment of diarrhea in children at home is allowed when there is no bloody stool, dehydration, very high temperature, and the child's feces, with the help of medications or traditional medicine, gradually come back to normal.

Antidiarrheal drugs

Now there are many medicines that can be used to treat diarrhea in children up to a year and older:

1. Nifuroxazide is a suspension. This drug is used to treat acute diarrhea of ​​infectious genesis. It has a pleasant sweet taste, so children easily take it. It is given in a dosage of 2.5 ml crumbs from month to half a year - 3 times a day, and from 7 to 24 months - 4 times. Karapuzam from 3 to 7 years offer 5 ml 3 times a day, and from 7 years - 4 times a day. The medicine is given to kids at any time, regardless of when they eat, and the course of treatment lasts no more than a week.
2. Enterosgel - paste. This preparation is an absorbent. It removes toxic substances from the child's body. It can be used from birth. The current scheme for treating diarrhea in children with this drug is that infants are recommended to stir 2.5 grams of paste in a triple volume of breast milk and water them before each feeding (6 times a day). The product should not be confused with food, so it is offered 2 hours after a meal, for two weeks. Karapuzam up to 5 years - 3 times a day in a dose of 7.5 g, children from 5 to 14 years give 15 grams of medication 3 times a day.
3. Hilak forte is a drop. This drug contains microorganisms that restore the balance of the intestinal microflora. He is appointed before meals from the very birth of the baby in a dosage of 15-30 drops 3 times a day, and for the feline from a year, recommend a dosage of 20-40 drops 3 times a day. Treatment can last from a week to several months.

All medications for treating diarrhea in children should be prescribed by a doctor. It is important to remember here that diarrhea is a disease that needs to be treated immediately and medicines must be prescribed in accordance with its etiology.

ethnoscience

If it happened that you can not visit the hospital, that is, people's methods of treating diarrhea in children of different ages. To the herbs from which you can make infusions and give them a child, include the fruits of bilberries, bird cherries, and also the roots of the bloodlet.

To folk remedies in the treatment of diarrhea in children can be attributed and infusion of pomegranate crusts. To make it, take 1 teaspoon of chopped dried peel, pour 1 liter of hot boiled water and insist on a water bath for 15 minutes. After this, the infusion is cooled and give the baby 1 teaspoon 3 times a day.