Diarrhea, how to avoid dehydration, Graciela Contreras

  • 2011

Hello, this time I will give some brief guidelines, but no less important that will help you avoid dehydration in your children if they get diarrhea.

Always remember that it is better not to suffer from diarrhea, since you can avoid it if there is hand washing before sitting at the table and before preparing food, not forgetting to wash them after using the bathroom. Boil the water, sew vegetables and meat. The bathroom or latrine very clean and if you do not have them do not forget to try them because the evacuation in the open air spreads germs that affect your family and the rest of the inhabitants.

If you have done everything preventive to avoid diarrhea and even so your children suffer from it, immediately offer them half a cup of oral serum every time they have a diarrheal evacuation, if they are under one year old. or. If their age is above one year give them a cup every time they evacuate diarrhea. This means that if they had 5 times diarrhea 5 times you should have given them the oral serum.

Do not forget to prepare the sachet in a liter of clean water, without sugar or anything other than oral serum. Do not worry if the picture lasts several days while you give them the oral serum you will avoid dehydration and secondary death due to lack of water and electrolytes.

If you notice that diarrhea is very abundant, then; Prepare 50 grams of rice flour in just over a liter of water, let it boil covered, about 20 minutes, and offer the patient instead of the electrolytes the same amount, only for two or three occasions and come back after the electrolytes. It is very important to go to your doctor.

A hug

Graciela Contreras Jim nez.

Pediatrician with certification in nutrition.

Professional Certificate 795208.

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