Each infant and young child because of bowel habits are different, so the daily defecation also vary. Clinically, the baby was born within six months of daily defecation in six or seven times within; six to twelve months of the baby, a daily bowel movement about two or three times, all belong to normal. In addition, the baby would be due to genetic, personality, physique and eating the contents of different factors such as defecation different shapes, but as long as a day to maintain regular bowel habits, and not particularly unusual phenomenon, we can not worry too much about.
If the baby stool frequency or stool in a sudden increase in water content, and even bloodshot eyes, then the possibility of diarrhea will be increased. The symptoms include diarrhea accompanied by fever, dehydration and abdominal pain, in addition to the inconvenience caused by their parents, the local stimulation also make your baby's perineal redness, erosion. According to statistics, over a six-month baby about 50% have occurred at least once a diarrhea; and when the baby's first birthday, almost every baby experiences have had diarrhea, and some babies even took place 3 - 4 times.
In clinical diagnosis, diarrhea can be roughly divided into two types of acute diarrhea and chronic diarrhea. In general, the onset time of less than two weeks for acute diarrhea, more than two weeks or more, compared with chronic diarrhea. And chronic diarrhea often caused by bad digestion and absorption, over time will appear malnutrition, stunting the phenomenon, or even to other organ complications. In the acute period, if the baby severe watery diarrhea and water added is not enough, it will cause dehydration. Mild dehydration, sick children may be only skin, dry lips, eyes and brain before the fontanelle minor subsidence; moderate dehydration, the brain or the eyes pre-subsidence fontanelle will become more obvious, would also reduce the amount of urine, often associated with blood acidosis caused by shortness of breath phenomenon; severe dehydration may be complicated by shock and acute renal failure, then there will be life-threatening. For acute diarrhea, the baby should immediately seek medical treatment in order to improve symptoms of diarrhea, to avoid dehydration, shock.