One and a half year old baby dehydration symptoms?

summary

Baby's digestive system is very delicate, sometimes due to a variety of reasons there will be diarrhea. This disease seems very small, but the harm to people's health is still very big. When new parents see the baby with diarrhea, they will inevitably not rush to the hospital for examination at the first time. Instead, they will stay at home and adjust their diet slowly. But sometimes when the baby has diarrhea and dehydration symptoms, there will be danger. They need to be sent to the doctor urgently. So what about the dehydration symptoms of 1-year-old baby? Now let's talk about it.

One and a half year old baby dehydration symptoms?

First: mild dehydration: general children easily irritable, crying, thirsty, crying tears reduce, urine volume is also reduced. The eye socket is slightly sunken, the skin is slightly dry, and it shrinks slowly after pinching.

Second: moderate and severe dehydration: the child is mentally poor, restless or sleepy, the severe one has coma, weakness of limbs, no tears or dry tongue when crying, obvious depression of two eye sockets, obvious reduction or no urine in urine volume, slow retraction after skin pinching, sudden obvious weight loss of children, weight loss of about 3% - 10%, or even more.

Third: if the child is thirsty, he can freely drink the electrolyte solution and boiled water mixed with oral rehydration salt, and there is no need to limit the amount of drinking. Do not try homemade formula electrolytes at home, including homemade sugar and salt water, unless directed by a pediatrician and equipped with appropriate tools. If the baby is dehydrated, it is mainly manifested as dry skin, sunken eyeballs, reduced urination, thirsty, irritability and other symptoms. If it is serious, it will cause shortness of breath, collapse and even fall into a semi coma state. At this time, parents must take the child to the hospital emergency immediately, otherwise once delayed, it will be life-threatening.

matters needing attention

The most important thing is, before making clear the cause of diarrhea, unless the pediatrician prescribes medicine, do not use antidiarrheal drugs without authorization, which may bring danger to the baby's life. Dehydration must be actively treated, and necessary infusion should be carried out to supplement the fluid lost by the body. When the baby is dehydrated, it should mainly eat digestible food to avoid increasing gastrointestinal burden.