Acute gastroenteritis is an acute inflammation of the gastrointestinal mucosa. The main clinical manifestations are nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, fever, etc.. This disease is common in summer and autumn, its occurrence is due to improper diet, eating or overeating; cold, dirty dirty rotten rotten food. According to the TCM etiology and physical differences, will be divided into cold and damp heat, gastroenteritis, indigestion and other types of.
There are three obvious symptoms of acute gastroenteritis:
Nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea. Often the first abrupt onset of vomiting, nausea, vomiting of afterwards. Severe vomiting of bile or bloody substance. Abdominal pain is more common in the middle and upper abdomen, and severe attacks can occur as colic. Diarrhea is watery, several times a day to dozens of times, accompanied by the stench, deep yellow or greenish, with little blood, no tenesmus.
Two, the general body symptoms are mild, severe patients with fever, dehydration, acidosis, shock and other symptoms, and sometimes can be manifested as acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding.
Three 、 early or mild cases of enteritis can be without any signs. Check the body may have abdominal or umbilical week light tenderness, bowel sounds often obvious hyperthyroidism, patients with acute enteritis is generally short, a few days can improve healing.
How to prevent acute gastroenteritis in summer?:
First, wash your hands before and after meals, and try to avoid eating in restaurants where the street vendors and sanitary conditions are bad. Don't take food while you are walking. For a pet family, pay attention to pet hygiene, and warn your child not to feed your pet while you are eating.
Two, summer food should be light mainly, eat more vegetables and fruits. Do not indulge in cold drinks, do not eat too much every meal, avoid gastrointestinal damage.
Three, for infants and young children, to encourage breast-feeding, especially in the first summer after birth is the most important, should avoid summer weaning, add complementary food, not a few complementary food at the same time add. According to climate change, timely increase and decrease clothes, pay attention to room ventilation, keep fresh air, but also strengthen physical exercise, at the same time pay attention to work and rest.
In addition, for acute gastroenteritis, safe medication is also critical. Ordinary people at home can prepare some Huoxiangzhengqi water or Huoxiangzhengqi pills, the pill is open, changweikang granules, berberine and other drugs, to prepare for possible period of want or need. In use, should pay attention to, first of all, take the time to be early, just when symptoms are taken; secondly, when the patient's symptoms are heavy, or after taking no obvious improvement in symptoms, should be timely medical treatment. Don't abuse antibiotics, because not every patient applies.