Understanding Diarrhea in Children

Understanding Diarrhea in children is a situation where the child has a bowel movement or abbreviated BAB with stool consistency or liquid or soft stools, and even feces just be water only by the number or frequency of defecation are more than three times in one day. To better understand the meaning of diarrhea in children, the following is about happenings diarrhea.

The cause of diarrhea in children

diarrhea occurs in children can be caused by several factors. The cause of diarrhea in clinic that occurs in children can be categorized into six broad categories, as follows:

• Factor or cause an infection. This factor is due to the entry of bacteria, virus, parasite infestation .
• Disturbance in the absorption or malabsorption
• Allergies to foods that go
• Food poisoning or hazardous substances into the body through the digestive tract
• Interruption or decreased immunity or immune-called immunodeficiency 
• Factors that cause or other causes

The cause of diarrhea in children who often found clinically or in the field is diarrhea by a factor of poisoning either of food or other material through the digestive tract and infections. Classification of Diarrhea in children Classification or plebeian kind or type of diarrhea in children based on the length of time the split into two kinds of acute diarrhea, persistent diarrhea or chronic diarrhea. Known diarrhea Acute diarrhea is a long time course of fewer than 14 days. While chronic diarrhea or persistent diarrhea is diarrhea which is the length of time the course is more than 14 days. While the classification of diarrhea in children based on the degree of dehydration in natural, diarrhea classified into three levels of the degree of dehydration:a. Diarrhea without dehydration diarrhea in children who are classified into diarrhea without dehydration is when there are two or more symptoms and signs of the signs below:

• Good general state of the child, children are aware, this is evidenced by the child is able to communicate if asked something to him
• Not sunken eyes can be checked by looking at the eyes of a child
• Child's desire to drink is still normal, no thirst
• Skin turgor can return immediately. Skin turgor is a condition or state of elasticity of the skin. Skin turgor can be measured by how long the skin and underlying tissue back to the initial shape after being pulled. Normally is going back soon in less than 3 seconds

b. Diarrhea with dehydration mild / moderate

Classified child has diarrhea Dehydration Mild / Moderate whenever there are two or more symptoms and signs of the following:

• The general state of Restlessness and fussy children
• Sunken eyes look
• Taste and desire to drink constantly, there is and there is thirst
• Skin turgor may return but slow

c. Diarrhea with severe dehydration.
 

Classified into child diarrhea dehydration weight when there are two or more symptoms and signs of the following:

• The general state of the child is weak, Les, high slumped unconscious.
• Sunken eyes look
• Kids do not want or lazy to drink
• Skin turgor may return but very slowly

Thus the ins and outs, happenings regarding the definition of diarrhea in children up to the classification or division jeans and kinds of diarrhea.