Question
A one-and-a-half-year-old child is experiencing mucoid diarrhea, occurring three to four times a day, sometimes only yellow mucous is excreted, with a small amount of mucous. How should it be treated? Is taking a multivitamin effective for treating diarrhea?
Answer
Hello: The treatment for pediatric diarrhea includes dietary therapy, care, and infection control. In terms of diet, appropriate nutritional supplementation can help promote recovery from the disease, reduce weight loss and growth delay, and shorten the recovery time. After diarrhea stops, continue to provide nutritious food and add a meal once a day for two weeks to catch up on normal growth. For infectious diarrhea, disinfection and isolation measures are necessary, and attention should be paid to observe vomiting, defecation, and urination situations, and to replenish fluids in a timely manner. In terms of medication treatment, viral enteritis mainly adopts dietary therapy and supportive therapy without the need for antibiotics. Acute enteritis caused by non-invasive bacteria can usually be cured on its own, but for newborns, infants, frail children, and severe patients, antibiotics are still needed. Invasive bacterial enteritis requires specific antibiotic treatment; for example, infections caused by Escherichia coli can be treated with gentamicin, pipemidic acid, or norfloxacin, while infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus can be treated with penicillin or cephalosporin antibiotics.