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Dehydration in infants and children: first aid

20th June, 2011 - Posted by administrator - No Comments

What is dehydration? Dehydration is the excessive loss of body fluids. This occurs when the amount of water lost through sweating, urination, diarrhea and vomiting more than the amount of water intake. Fever, vomiting, diarrhea and heat exhaustion is a major concern in infants and children because it can lead to dehydration.

Children who are experiencing severe dehydration should be hospitalized to receive intravenous fluids. When a child is sick, often offer a clear drink. Sometimes the nurse had difficulty in getting children to drink if your child has a sore throat.

This should be considered
• Reduce the amount of urine, dark and smelly because of intense concentration.
• No tears when crying.
• Lips are dry and cracked with little or no saliva
• sunken eyes
• Drowsiness, confusion, such as
• Poor skin turgor, to determine that pull the skin folds of the skin release arau kemidian. With poor skin turgor slowly return to starting position or tetatp “cone.”
• crown is concave in children under 1 year

What to do
Contact parents if a child shows signs of dehydration. Parents should contact their doctor if your child:
• Not able to drink for several hours due to illness, especially if the child is a child under the age of 6 months.
• It was repeatedly vomiting and diarrhea.
• have watery diarrhea for 2-3 days.

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