Symptoms of autumn diarrhea in 1-year-old infants

Update Date: 2022-10-16 Source: Network

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Autumn diarrhea, or rotavirus diarrhea, is more formally called rotavirus enteritis, because it is mainly caused by rotavirus. Rotavirus is highly infectious and can occur all year round. Autumn and winter are the peak period of infection, so it is called "autumn diarrhea". In China, the peak of autumn diarrhea in the north is from October to January of the next year, and the epidemic season of autumn diarrhea in the south is from November to February of the next year. One year old baby autumn diarrhea symptoms to tell you.

Symptoms of autumn diarrhea in 1-year-old infants

Rotavirus infection mainly affects children under 5 years old, especially in infants aged 6 months to 3 years old. The incidence rate is generally the highest through the faecal oral route, and can also be caused by respiratory tract infection.

The main symptoms are fever and diarrhea. Some babies will vomit initially, and some babies will also have cough, runny nose and other cold symptoms at the same time. Diarrhea, the baby's stool frequency from a few times a day to a dozen times. Stool is watery stool or egg pattern stool, yellow green or milky white, with a small amount of mucus, no pus, no fishy smell.

Usually, the duration of fever and vomiting is about 2 days, diarrhea lasts about 3-5 days or a week, and a few can last as long as three weeks. Severe diarrhea in autumn can lead to dehydration and electrolyte balance disorder in the baby. If not treated in time, it may be very serious. In addition, there are also reports that individual cases of rotavirus infection will also affect other organs of the body.

matters needing attention

Autumn diarrhea is highly infectious and easy to spread through daily human contact. At present, there is no effective prevention method. Due to the attention to personal and environmental hygiene, it is not very effective to prevent autumn diarrhea. Therefore, in addition to keeping babies away from other sick children and developing good health habits, it is best to vaccinate them with rotavirus vaccine (or "oral live rotavirus vaccine") in time.