Question
Why does the stool of a three-year-old child with diarrhea appear white?
Answer
Hello: (1) Dietary Therapy: Providing appropriate nutrition during diarrhea is crucial for promoting recovery, reducing weight loss and growth stagnation, shortening the recovery time after diarrhea, and preventing malnutrition. After diarrhea stops, continue to provide nutrient-rich food and increase one meal per day in the following two weeks to compensate for growth lag. For children with malnutrition or in the recovery period of chronic diarrhea, it may take longer to restore nutritional status. (2) Care: For infectious diarrhea, attention should be paid to disinfection and isolation. Monitor vomiting, bowel movements, and urination. Timely administration of water or oral rehydration solutions containing salt, controlling the rate of intravenous fluid administration. Strengthen eye care to prevent aspiration due to vomiting. Frequently turn over to prevent secondary pneumonia. (3) Infection Control: Viral enteritis is mainly treated with dietary therapy and supportive treatment, and antibiotics are not needed. Acute enteritis caused by non-invasive bacteria is usually self-limiting and can recover with supportive treatment alone, but antibiotics should still be considered for newborns, infants, frail children, and severe patients. Invasive bacterial enteritis usually requires antibiotic treatment. 1) Escherichia coli: Can use gentamicin, pipemidic acid, norfloxacin, furazolidone, certain cephalosporins, compound new sulfamethoxazole, coptis chinensis or amin…