Dehydration in Children with Diarrhea

Many people died from diarrheal diseases, especially children. Most often, they die of dehydration. Any person at any age can suffer from dehydration, but the impact is most severe and extremely fast in small children, so the condition is very dangerous for them.

Toddler's body consists of 70-80% liquid. Dehydrated from diarrhea can cause dehydration. In the middle of dehydration, can result in loss of consciousness. While severe dehydration can cause death. According to the study, patients with diarrhea under-five mortality is not caused by germs that infect the body, but due to the loss of body fluids.

Every child who suffered from watery diarrhea in

danger of dehydration. Give them plenty of fluids and take it to the doctor right away young children with signs of dehydration.

Signs of dehydration

Here are the signs of dehydration in children:

Sunken eyes and there was no water

Dry mouth and thirst

Drastic weight loss

Little urine or none at all, or dark yellow

Skin loses its elasticity. To find out, try to pinch the skin between two fingers, then release. If the skin does not get back to normal, the child is dehydrated.

Infant crown loosens / droop

Overcome With Rehydration Drinks

If a child has watery diarrhea and vomiting or diarrhea, do not wait until there are signs of dehydration. Act immediately.

One way to overcome the dehydration is to provide rehydration drinks to children. Rehydration drinks can help prevent or treat dehydration. This drink does not cure diarrhea, but it can help the patient until the diarrhea stops.

How to make a rehydration drink

Here are given two ways to make rehydration drink. If there is, add ½ cup of fruit juice, coconut water, or mashed ripe bananas that have been in both beverages. It contains potassium, a mineral which can help sufferers to digest food and drink better.

Give the drink a few sips to people with children every 5 minutes, day and night, until he began to urinate normally. For adults need 3 liters or more a day. A small child needs at least 1 liter a day, or 1 cup every time he defecated a dilute. Permanent give this drink a few sips frequently. Although the patient vomit, not all drinks excluded. After one day, throw a drink that was made, if still necessary, make a new mix.

1. Made with powdered cereal and salt

The best material is rice flour. But you can use the corn that has been mashed pipil, wheat flour, a type of wheat, or cooked potatoes are mashed.

How to make:

Enter pressed ½ teaspoon salt in 1 liter of clean water and cooked,

Also input 8 teaspoon full of powdered cereal.

Simmer for 5 to 7 minutes until it becomes watery porridge. Quick chill and began to give to the children diarrhea.

Attention: Taste the drink this every time before given to patients to ensure drinks are not stale. In hot weather, cereal drinks like this can be stale in a few hours.

2. Made with sugar and salt

You can use raw sugar, brown sugar or white sugar, or sugar syrup.

How to make:

Enter pressed ½ teaspoon salt in 1 liter of clean water and cooked,

Also enter the 8 teaspoon sugar pressed. Stir well.

Caution: Before you add sugar, taste the drink first and make sure no tears seasin.

Parents should be vigilant and know the signs if the child's diarrhea worse. Take the child to the health care facility or a doctor if the condition did not improve in 3 days or liquid bowel movements become more frequent, repeated vomiting, eating or drinking very little, there is fever and bloody stools children.

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