Question
My daughter is a little over five months old and has been having diarrhea for a month. The doctor diagnosed her with enteritis, but she hasn’t returned to her original paste-like stools. What should I do?
Answer
Bacterial enteritis can be treated with antibiotics. Due to the gradual change in bacterial drug resistance, medication should be administered under the guidance of a physician, following the doctor’s prescription. Some patients stop taking medication just as their symptoms improve, which can lead to chronic colitis due to insufficient treatment, causing long-term health issues and affecting the child’s nutrition. Intravenous drip: The most dangerous aspect of diarrhea is dehydration, which is more common in children than adults. Severe dehydration can result in more than 1/10th of the child’s body weight loss, with a mortality rate of up to 30%. Replenishing fluids can reduce the mortality rate to below 5%, so intravenous drip is the best treatment for diarrhea.