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What is the treatment of diarrhea in children?

It is necessary to know that diarrhea is the reaction of the body to gastrointestinal or intestinal disorders due to bacterial infection or viral parasitic.
The treatment of diarrhea for children is through the compensation of what the body loses fluids through diarrhea with the solution of saturation, which is available in pharmacies and centers of care for children and infants and contains this solution on all the elements and substances needed by the body.
Child should be given 10 cm per kg of weight of the child meaning that if the child's weight is equal to 5 kg, the child should be given 50 cm of saturation solution to avoid the drought associated with diarrhea.
In most cases the cause of diarrhea is viral infection and therefore do not need any treatment other than saturation solution and child care, but in some cases there are indications of bacterial infection such as high temperature or mucus and blood in the stool and in such cases must be used antibiotics Under medical supervision.

What are the symptoms associated with diarrhea and require medical intervention?

dehydration
Exits blood with stool
Laziness and childhood
Loss of consciousness or confusion
severe thirst or inability to drink water
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we advice you to give baby lack EC or you give NAN HA 

prefer to use NAN HA it's good one for your baby 

Dear customer ,,
You need to go to the nearest medical center for clinical assessment and to do Chest x-ray and blood tests to rule out infection in the chest .
In case of Infection , your doctor will prescribe antibiotics as azithromycin 
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