Vomiting, fever and diarrhea in a child of 2 years. How to ease his condition, what to do?

Vomiting and diarrhea in a child are always symptoms of a disease. And especially the parents of small children who do not know how to explain that in addition to the above manifestations of the illness worry them in particular.

But especially dangerous is that vomiting and diarrhea in a child of 2 years cause severe dehydration of the baby's body, and the wrong actions of parents can lead to a deterioration in his condition.

About how to behave in the case of diarrhea, vomiting and fever in children, as well as the causes of these symptoms, we will talk later in the article.

Causes of diarrhea in a child

As pediatric practice shows, vomiting, temperature and diarrhea in a child are most often signs of an acute infection. Next, we will list only a few of the most common infectious diseases with similar symptoms.

1. Adenoviral infection. The chair becomes like a gruel, there are bouts of nausea and vomiting. In addition, the child is concerned about dry cough, runny nose and manifestations of conjunctivitis. The most serious infection occurs in children up to 6 months.
2. Dysentery. With this infection, the child has a green diarrhea, with an admixture of mucus and plenty of fluid. The tongue of the baby, as a rule, is covered with a white coating, there is a headache and abdominal pains. Appetite is markedly reduced. At the beginning of the disease, the baby is also worried about the high temperature (up to 39 ° C). By the way, it often happens that about a day before the onset of the disease the child used milk.
3. Salmonellosis. With the development of this disease, the onset, as a rule, is stormy. It is accompanied by multiple vomiting, severe abdominal pain and bloating. The chair becomes green, slimy and offensive. Infection occurs from the use of insufficiently roasted meat or eggs of ducks and geese.
4. Esherichiosis. This infection manifests itself by repeated vomiting, bloating, and also by the specific condition of the stool - it becomes mucous, orange, with whitish inclusions in the form of lumps. At the child the expressed dehydration is observed.

How does the infection get into the baby's body?

If a child has a year, diarrhea and vomiting become a serious test for his body. Yes, and older children are severely affected by this condition.

Most often, bacteria, viruses or fungi enter the body with unwashed vegetables and fruits or raw water, which, for example, is in the mouth of the baby when it is swimming in a pond. The crumbs, in which the teeth are cut, generally try to damp a strong itch in the gums with any object sent into the mouth.

As you can see, there is nothing new in this information. Nevertheless, infectious diseases with diarrhea and vomiting do not become more rare. And hygiene compliance has not yet turned into an unshakable rule.

To the child year: diarrhea - what to do?

Depending on what caused the digestive disorder, the diarrhea that appeared in one-year-old children and those older is different.

• It can be liquid feces, similar to mush, with splashes of mucus, blood, pus and a sharp unpleasant odor.
• Sometimes it acquires a non-uniform consistency, and in it are visible pieces of undigested food.
• And sometimes the feces become greasy and shiny, badly washed off the skin of the child and from the walls of the pot.

When addressing a specialist, be sure to tell him how the baby's feces looked so that the doctor could correctly diagnose. After all, for example, if a child has a year, a temperature and diarrhea with an admixture of blood can talk about the presence of a lesion of the large intestine with a dysentery or E. coli - which is very dangerous for the health of the baby.

The combination of symptoms can say a lot

A one-year-old baby and older children usually already looks stiff and quite decorated. However, single manifestations of indigestion should not strongly disturb parents, especially if the baby does not have temperature, and diarrhea itself lasts no more than 3 days.

But if your child has a year, diarrhea, vomiting, fever and abdominal pain - this is an occasion for serious examination and treatment. Even simple diarrhea in combination with abdominal pain can signal that the baby has appendicitis or renal colic. By the way, the same symptoms can be manifested in pancreatitis or in the early stage of intestinal obstruction.

When to take measures is extremely necessary

The rapid reaction of parents can sometimes dramatically change the course of the baby's illness. In the event that diarrhea in a child 2 years old or slightly older is evident in the situations listed below, a doctor should be promptly:

• You suspect poisoning with spoiled food or mushrooms;
• Along with diarrhea in the child, the temperature rose above 38 ° C;
• Diarrhea is accompanied by a sharp pain in the abdomen;
• Diarrhea appeared during a trip to a country with a warm climate;
• She overcame all members of the family;
• The child has a strong weakness, it is difficult for him to breathe and swallow;
• Significant dehydration is detected (sunken eyes, baby crying without tears, it has very dark urine or none at all);
• Yellowed skin and mucous membranes of the eyes;
• To diarrhea weight loss has joined.

Once again, the signs listed above are very serious symptoms that require immediate medical attention!

General rules for bowel disorder

Regardless of who is affected by the disease, a one-year-old, two-year-old kid or child 3 years old, diarrhea, vomiting and other symptoms of malaise require the same actions on the part of the parents.

The first thing that should excite you is the fight against dehydration, especially dangerous for kids of the first years of life. And keep in mind that the smaller the weight of crumbs, the faster it comes. So, be sure to provide fluid in the body. To do this, use the ready-made solutions available in pharmacies ("Regidron" or "Tour Operator"). Or do it at home.

To do this, pour a teaspoon into a liter of boiled water without a slide of salt and add 4 to 6 tsp of salt. Sugar (this solution is stored for no more than a day).

Before the arrival of a doctor, do not give the child a remedy for vomiting, so as not to distort the manifestation of the disease and do not interfere with the precise diagnosis.

What can not be given to a child with diarrhea?

Diarrhea in a child 2 years old or other age does not allow to give him as a drink sweet tea, fruit juice, soda. Boiled milk and chicken broth are also inadmissible.

In no case do not give enzyme preparations like "Festal". This can increase diarrhea, especially if the child has a viral infection. Do not pour it with potassium permanganate - under its influence a cork of feces is formed, which prevents the contents of the intestines from leaving, which can be dangerous.

The cause of diarrhea can be and taking antibiotics

Modern mothers have long realized that without particularly good reasons to give the child antibiotics is not worth it. Since they, while providing undoubted benefits, can cause many unpleasant consequences. In fact, together with microorganisms-pests they destroy and useful bacteria, for example, those that participate in the process of digestion. This leads to manifestations of dysbiosis.

The diarrhea that appears in a child after antibiotics becomes a new test for the body, preventing him from recovering properly after the illness and further weakening it.

The fact is that with feces in such cases many minerals, vitamins and other useful compounds are excreted, which can not but affect the state of the child's metabolism. By the way, dysbacteriosis in response to taking antibiotics in children develops much more often than in adults, and the result is the immaturity of their digestive system.

How to deal with the problem?

What to do if the child has diarrhea after antibiotics? In the fight against this symptom, several simple rules will help.

• Provide the baby with proper nutrition, eliminating carbonated drinks from the diet, as well as raw vegetables and fruits, fatty foods, sweets and milk.
• Give him as much fluid as possible to restore her loss.
• Great help to you can have and broths from the herbs of St. John's wort, fennel, mint or immortelle. They will stop diarrhea and help relieve inflammation of the intestinal mucosa.

And for the future it is necessary to remember that to start taking antibiotics, as well as abruptly stopping it or changing one medicine to another without the advice of the attending physician is unacceptable! By the way, the combination of antibiotics with probiotics ("Hilak-forte", "Linex", etc.) will help to avoid dysbacteriosis and populate the intestines with useful microorganisms.

What does green feces mean in a child?

But if your baby did not take antibiotics, and his chair is liquid, and yes even greenish, how to be in this situation? What are the causes of diarrhea in this case?

Quite often such a state does not harbor any danger in itself. As already mentioned above, in young children, the digestion process is not yet enough, and this leads to the fact that any change in the habitual diet can cause an intestinal disorder. The color of it often depends on the products included in the baby's menu. So, nettles, salads, sorrel, spinach, broccoli can color your baby's feces, at the same time changing its consistency. And if the kid is calm and cheerful, you should not worry.

If the child has green diarrhea accompanied by moods, refusal to eat, restless sleep, you should definitely be examined by a doctor. Especially dangerous is the condition in which stools appear in the stool, and the smell of it becomes putrefactive.

How to understand if the prescribed treatment helps?

Diarrhea in a child 2 years old or another younger age, as you already understood, requires a doctor. But the treatment prescribed to them requires your control.

If the baby becomes more active, he gets an appetite, and vomiting and diarrhea manifest less often or completely disappear, then the treatment helps.

In the case if signs of a decrease in diarrhea and vomiting during the day are not observed, and the baby became sluggish and sleepy, treatment does not go to him for future use.

Once again on how to defeat diarrhea in your baby

Once again I want to reiterate that the manifestations of the disease that the child suffers (1 year) - diarrhea, fever, nausea and vomiting, are always a reason to call a doctor. In this situation, parents and one-year-old crumbs, and older children should remain calm and prudent.

• Do not try to treat it yourself (especially antibiotics), do not stop the diarrhea at any cost.
• Diarrhea is a reaction of the body aimed at getting rid of harmful substances, and the main thing is not to allow the body to lose fluid.
• Stop only a particularly liquid and watery diarrhea, but only after consulting a doctor.

Be healthy!