Wednesday 7 March 2012

Treatment Of Diarrhea With Liquid Electrolyte


Diarrhea is the mechanism of the body remove toxins, bacteria, and viruses. Children should not be stopped the diarrhea, because it inhibits intestinal motility. As if the diarrhea stops, but in the still ongoing. Side effects, is the intestinal lacerations. Important action is given more fluid than usual. Give your child a special fluid containing electrolytes to prevent dehydration. Children with diarrhea should not only be given water alone, should be given fluids containing electrolytes (sodium, potassium), and calories.

children with diarrhea should often be given to drink, the food should still be given but avoid vegetables because the fiber difficult to digest so it can increase the frequency of diarrhea. Fruits are also avoided except bananas and apples because they contain kaolin, pectin, potassium which serves to absorb toxins and solidify feces. Parents can make a liquid electrolyte to dissolve 1-2 tablespoons of sugar plus a little salt into one cup of water. For starch calories can be given water, a teaspoon with 100 cc of boiled water.


Antibiotics are given in cases of diarrhea with bacterial infection


Drugs that may be just as absorbent norit, smectite group which serves to absorb toxins. Can also be given live bacteria cultures like lactobacillus. Antibiotics are given only in cases that prove there is a bacterial infection such as cholera vibrio cholerae caused, dysentery caused by the parasite is an amoeba with a characteristic smell of feces once, there is mucus, blood, the child will feel pain when defecating.


Diarrhea virus infection need not be given antibiotics


Diarrhea can be treated with drugs that are probiotic bacteria or yeast supplements are widely used to maintain or normalize the intestinal flora. However, various results of clinical trials can not recommend this drug for acute diarrhea in general. Probiotics include lactobacilli, bifidobakterium, streptococcal spp, yeast (saccaromyces boulardi), and others. Need to be observed, if the diarrhea is only just be water and waste less, it indicates the direction of viral infections that do not need antibiotics.

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