Every mother dreams that her child will be healthy and cheerful, but often, one has to face a huge variety of different diseases that upset and cause great anxiety, and sometimes confuse symptoms that only a specialist can understand. Vomiting and diarrhea in a child can be a symptom of various diseases, which will most often be associated with an upset gastrointestinal tract due to chemical and food poisoning. But also it can be a signal of an organism about more serious infectious diseases. At this stage, there are about 120 varieties of viruses that can cause a child to have high fever, loose stools, and vomiting. These include enteroviruses, adenoviruses, astroviruses and caliciviruses. Consider some of the options for diseases whose symptoms may include vomiting and diarrhea in a child.
Fever, abdominal pain, and vomiting in a one-year-old baby may be a symptom of acute respiratory infection. SARS - belong to the most common human ailments, which hurt everyone, more often, less often. ARVI viruses infect cells that cover the airways from the nose to the lungs. There are many varieties of the virus, the most famous for many - the flu virus. Symptoms of SARS may be different, it all depends on the area of the respiratory tract, where this "irritant" has settled. For example, if a severe runny nose begins, and the general condition is not severely affected, it is rhinitis, a hoarse voice and a strong cough - laryngitis, etc. With adenovirus infection, fever, runny nose, cough, weakness, abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea can occur. Children with adenovirus infection are usually treated at home, but if a severe course of the disease occurs, then there is a need for hospitalization. If the child is at home, he needs bed rest, peace and good care. Do not force him to eat during such a period if he does not want to and is tormented by nausea, much better if he will drink more. Give the child small portions of water with lemon and fruit drinks. If mucus is present in the vomit, give warm water, if high temperature - chilled. After the child recovers, make sure that he does not get cold.
Vomiting and diarrhea in a child may be due to rotavirus infection. Also, with this infection, the following symptoms may be: high fever, intoxication, coughing, runny nose, nausea. You can get a rotavirus infection through contact or alimentarily (with the use of foods that were infected or through utensils used by a sick person). The disease can begin with a sore throat, runny nose, cough, almost at the same time vomiting begins, which can be repeated, and loose stools. The temperature can rise up to 39 degrees. The main thing in this period is to prevent dehydration. With dehydration, a child may experience kidney failure, so invite your child to drink as often as possible. Remember that if diarrhea and vomiting in one-year-old children is often repeated, (loose stools were more than six times a day), he rarely urinates, then immediate hospitalization is needed. If rotavirus infection causes vomiting and diarrhea in a child who is breastfed, it is necessary to reduce the consumption of breast milk, and also to exclude cow's milk from the diet. In the small intestine, with disease, the synthesis of the enzyme that breaks down milk sugar decreases , and the accumulation of such sugar in the intestine leads to loose stools. Do not force the child to eat, it is better if he drinks plenty of water, jelly, fruit drinks. If the baby is a little stronger and asks for a meal, at first it is better to cook him liquid cereal (rice, hercules, etc.), but with the condition that they will be on the water, without adding oil. The good news is that rotavirus infection has a rapid course of the disease and can be cured in a short time with the help of modern medicines. It remains only to recall that it is better than a doctor, no one can make a correct diagnosis.