Symptoms and etiology of diarrhea in children

Diarrhea can be simply expressed as a change in intestinal bowel patterns, increased stool water content, increase in frequency of stool. This is a very important mode to change. Breastfeeding children six or seven times a day is very thin stools, it is not diarrhea.
Before the explanation of causes of diarrhea, let us briefly look at normal General structure of the digestive tract, and how they work. First of all, the food into the stomach, gastric acid, and other digestive juice mixed in there, strong stomach muscles will be food and gastric fluid mixing. Subsequently, the food through a valve, the pyloric sphincter, to the small intestine. In the small intestine, food enzymes in the digestive juice further decomposition and intestinal Peristaltic contraction regularly, food along the intestine may be promoting. In the small intestine, most of the nutrients through the small intestine was absorbed into the blood. Intestinal wall of the small intestine is not smooth, covered with thousands of microvilli on the surface, they like a finger out, thereby greatly increasing the area of the surface of the intestinal wall. Small intestine surface accumulation of large, more powerful absorption of nutrition. When after absorption in the small intestine when food particles into the large intestine, where the water is absorbed, the rest of the digest was promoting the rectum and store, until the appropriate time and opportunity from anal discharge.
Infection (known as gastroenteritis)
Above descriptions of the digestive tract is, of course, means that all functions are normal, but in cases of gastroenteritis, and other issues, great changes have taken place.
Gastroenteritis is surface stimulation produces inflammation in the digestive tract. Often suffering from gastroenteritis with vomiting. Children may have a fever, other members of the family or other contacts may also become ill. Most of gastroenteritis infection is caused by a virus, in particular a rotavirus. Of course, can also cause gastroenteritis sometimes bacteria or other microorganisms. Sometimes food poisoning can cause diarrhea, such as mushrooms. However, usually contain tens of thousands in the healthy intestinal bacteria, if certain factors have changed the natural flora, also can cause gastroenteritis. For example, in the course of the use of certain antibiotics, will happen.
Typically, children suffering from gastroenteritis is ill (of course is not all that). Children may have fever, sometimes there is blood or mucus in the stool. To determine if the infection is caused by a virus or bacteria, is the only way for testing stool.
Other parts of the body of the infection can also cause diarrhea, especially in young children. In fact, even looks extraneous issues, such as otitis media may also cause diarrhea.
Diet
Some of the children on a number of specific food or drinking water replacement of particularly sensitive, which in every family, every child is different. Some children go to a new place will feel uncomfortable and parents generally comes down to this \"climate sickness\". While other children who do not have this problem.
Excessive drinking fruit juice and sugar-containing beverages may cause diarrhea, such as Apple sauce, banana paste used to infant weaning foods, contain a lot of fructose, and the baby is very easy to have a dependency on this. Does have a small number of specific children, between the ages of six months to two years, will have persistent diarrhea, but others are very good. Pediatricians are often called \"beans and carrots syndrome\", the reason is obvious. If a child is healthy, normal growth and development, that does not have to worry about. Doctors may require your child to do fecal tests to rule out some kind of infection or celiac disease, if all is well, child\'s diarrhea usually have a natural and normal.