Diarrhea, baby care

The diarrhea occurs when the inner cover of the intestine suffers an injury. What makes the stool softer than usual means that the ingested nutrients are not digested or absorbed properly by the intestine.

Injured tissue also tends to filter liquids, which are lost and mineral salts. These losses are compounded if your baby eats food or sugary drinks because the sugar is not absorbed, it attracts more fluid, worsening diarrhea.

If your child has vomiting followed by diarrhea within a few days, may have a viral infection in the intestinal tract.

If you are breast-feeding, your pediatrician will suggest to continue breastfeeding, and if it does probably formula, but some pediatricians suggest feed our child with a special solution that contains electrolytes (salt and potassium) and sugar.

When you enter the milk is possible that the doctor may recommend you start feeding different milk for several days, These is because of the diarrhea can kill the enzymes necessary to digest the sugar in cow's milk.