There is a kind of diarrhea called ＂autumn diarrhea＂. Please keep this ＂Diarrhea Prevention Cheat Book＂.

Dai Rujun is making rounds.

　　Now Qingyuan is gradually entering autumn, and a common disease in autumn is quietly approaching children. This is rotavirus enteritis, commonly known as "autumn diarrhea". Rotavirus enteritis, like hand, foot and mouth disease, is contagious. It is a disease spread through digestive tract and air, and it is easy to get sick in autumn, so it is also called autumn diarrhea.

　　Rotavirus enteritis is easy to occur in babies from six months to two years old. When the baby has diarrhea, most parents are very anxious and will give the baby antidiarrheal drugs, but the effect is not necessarily ideal. Dai Rujun, deputy chief physician of pediatrics department of Qingyuan People’s Hospital, reminded that this kind of diarrhea is a self-limiting disease, and there is generally no specific medicine for treatment. Parents should be alert to dehydration symptoms, and most babies will naturally stop diarrhea in a week or so.

　　Babies from six months to two years old are easy to be "recruited"

　　"At first, it was characterized by a cold and runny nose, accompanied by vomiting." Dai Yujun introduced. Rotavirus enteritis is a common disease among children in autumn. After rotavirus infects children’s intestines and stomach, it often leads to runny nose, vomiting and diarrhea in infants. Children will have watery stools, which are characterized by egg drop soup-like stools and diarrhea times as many as 10 times a day. "Some patients with serious conditions will be discharged immediately after eating, which will lead to dehydration shock in severe cases, which is very dangerous."

　　Because children’s gastrointestinal function is weak, gastric juice and digestive juice are relatively few, and their gastrointestinal resistance is poor, they are easily infected with rotavirus. Dai Rujun introduced that rotavirus enteritis can infect people of any age, but babies from six months to two years old are most likely to be "recruited". Ten years ago, every autumn, half of the pediatric wards in hospitals were children with rotavirus enteritis. In recent years, with the improvement of parents’ vigilance, the incidence of children has gradually decreased.

　　Rotavirus is self-limited. Generally, infants can heal themselves within five to seven days after onset, but parents should not underestimate it. If children are found to have obvious symptoms of diarrhea, it is recommended to go to the hospital immediately. "Many parents think it’s just ordinary diarrhea, just give their children some medicine." Dai Rujun said that rotavirus can be large or small. Once children are found to go to the toilet every ten minutes, they should go to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible.

　　The virus spreads through the digestive tract.

　　The vaccine should be vaccinated in time

　　"A family of three has diarrhea and is hospitalized collectively. Adults will also be infected with rotavirus." Dai Rujun said that parents nowadays pay great attention to children’s hygiene, but they don’t care about their own hygiene.

　　Recently, the Municipal People’s Hospital received a family of three who all suffered from autumn diarrhea. Children wash their hands frequently every day, while parents neglect to wash their hands to maintain good hygiene. The virus is not infected by the children themselves, but infected by parents who do not pay attention to hygiene after coming home from work.

　　Rotavirus acquired once will not be immune for life, and it may be reinfected, so protection is very important. There are many routes of transmission of rotavirus, because it is mainly composed of feces — Oral transmission, babies who eat their hands should pay special attention. In the high incidence period, you can reduce taking your baby to crowded playgrounds and wash your baby’s hands in time. Many babies are infected by their parents. Adults must wash their hands carefully before touching their babies when they get home. In addition, children’s tableware also needs to be disinfected frequently.

　　Diarrhea caused by rotavirus infection is mainly caused by "feces — "Oral transmission" means that the virus is eaten by the mouth of infants and young children, propagated in the gastrointestinal tract, and a large number of viruses are discharged from feces. The virus is also transmitted through respiratory droplets. Because of its high temperature and cold resistance, it can survive for a long time in the outside world, but exposed to the sun, it has obvious anti-virus effect through ultraviolet rays. Therefore, in the prevention of autumn diarrhea, parents should do a good job in home and personal hygiene, and their baby’s clothes should be exposed to the sun and disinfected frequently. They should wash their hands before contacting their children, and don’t kiss them mouth to mouth.

　　The way to effectively prevent autumn diarrhea is vaccination. The vaccine for preventing autumn diarrhea is also called "attenuated rotavirus live vaccine", which is mainly targeted at children aged 2 months to 3 years. Oral inoculation can stimulate the body to produce immunity to group A rotavirus and prevent diarrhea caused by group A rotavirus in infants. However, the vaccine is not among the vaccines required by the state for free vaccination, and it needs to be vaccinated at its own expense. Many parents think that it is a vaccine not required by the state, so they do not pay attention to it. At present, there are about 10 million infants suffering from rotavirus gastroenteritis every year in China. Vaccination can greatly reduce the chance of infants getting sick, so vaccination is an important way to prevent autumn diarrhea.

　　■ Health tips

　　Scientific diet is particularly important.

　　In summer and autumn, the climate in Guangdong is changeable, the temperature is high and low, and the physical development of infants and young children is still not perfect. It is difficult to adapt to the changeable climate. How should parents take good care of their babies?

　　1. Advocate breast-feeding babies and make full use of immunoglobulin in breast milk to protect children;

　　2. Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and increase the intake of vitamins;

　　3. Stay away from crowds, don’t go to crowded places, and lead children to exercise properly to improve their resistance;

　　4. reasonably increase or decrease clothes, both to avoid catching cold and to avoid wearing too much heat, sweating and catching cold.