The baby has diarrhea that has been difficult to cure. Are parents very worried but also at a loss. How to treat pediatric dysentery effectively? How can we alleviate it?
Most cases of dysentery in children occur in summer and autumn, mainly manifested as abdominal pain, urgency and heaviness, and the discharge of mucus or bloody stools. It is an intestinal infectious disease, mostly caused by external exposure to damp heat and epidemic toxins, internal damage to the diet, and accumulation in the intestines. Dysentery can be divided into acute dysentery, chronic dysentery, and bacterial dysentery, and the treatment methods for different types of dysentery are different. Now let's take a look at the corresponding treatment methods for different types of dysentery.
1. Acute dysentery
The condition is not serious and can be treated with medication at home. If the condition is severe, with frequent diarrhea and persistent high fever, especially in infants and young children, they should seek medical advice. Children with toxic dysentery must undergo injection treatment. The course of medication is 7 days, and even if the symptoms and stool properties have returned to normal, medication should be taken on time. In addition, targeted treatment should be taken. High fever should be promptly cooled down, and corresponding rescue measures should be taken for toxic dysentery, such as actively stopping ventilation and correcting shock in a timely manner.
2. Chronic dysentery
In this case, the difficulty of treatment becomes greater. The child has been ill for a long time and is physically weak, with poor disease resistance. They use a lot of antibiotics for a long time, and the bacteria develop resistance, resulting in poor treatment outcomes. Therefore, the medication time for chronic dysentery is longer, and different treatment methods should be adopted according to the symptoms of the child. Generally, interval therapy is used, which involves taking medication for 7-10 days, stopping for 4 days, and then taking medication again for 4 days. The entire course of medication lasts for 23-26 days. When the treatment effect is poor, medication enema can be used once a day for a course of 7-12 days. Traditional Chinese medicine can be used for treatment simultaneously. To improve the patient's own resistance, supportive therapy can also be used, such as repeated small doses of blood transfusion or plasma transfusion.
3. Bacterial dysentery
As the name suggests, dysentery caused by bacteria should be treated with medication. The medication method and duration of treatment vary depending on acute, chronic, and bacterial dysentery. The specific use of medication should follow the doctor's advice.
Normally, we should pay attention to environmental hygiene, especially in terms of food hygiene. In addition, we should actively eliminate flies, mosquitoes, and rodents in the baby's living environment, eliminate the breeding of mosquitoes and flies, and maintain indoor and outdoor cleanliness and hygiene. We also need to cultivate hygiene habits in children, such as washing hands before and after meals, not drinking raw water, not eating raw or cold foods, not spitting or urinating everywhere, in order to reduce and control the occurrence of intestinal infectious diseases.
