Tips How To Prevent Diarrhea in Your Child

Almost all of our children / toddlers have experienced this one illness. As usually the parent will be panic and upset especially if the diarrhea is accompanied by vomiting. If the children / tooddlers having diarrhea, the condition rapidly decreased because of lack of fluid (dehydration).


Just you know diarrhea is a condition in which the defecate with soft consistency or liquid with frequent frequencies is usually more than 3 times a day.

The causes of diarrhea are so many, there are infections (viruses, bacteria, parasites), allergies (eg milk allergies), poisoning, absorption disorders (malabsorption), etc.

Salmonella bacteria (kredit to google)

Tips how to prevent diarrhea:

• Give exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months and continue for up to 2 years.
• Provide complementary feeding according to age.
• Use drinking water from boiled water, and in sufficient quantities.
• Always wash your hands with water and soap before and after meals.
• Always chap in the toilet and dispose of baby stool properly.
• Give immunization measles in infants, because it will can increase the immunity.

Pic by Wiki

Pic by Wiki

Tips how to overcome diarrhea:

• Give first aid with oralit or other household liquids such as: vegetable sauce, fruit juice, tea water, salt sugar solvent, boiled water, etc.
• Assess the child with diarrhea: how long, how many times a day, whether the stool is bleeding, whether with vomiting, if accompanied by another complaint.
• Continue breastfeeding / feeding.
• Give zinc tablets for 10 consecutive days.
• If sick to be continues immediately take it to the doctor / hospital.