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1000 Points In New Born Care – Part 23

1. So, it is always best to give filtered and boiled and cooled water to children. This will protect them from having diarrhoea.
2. Instead of giving proper treatment for diarrhoea, tying holy thread, applying holy ash, giving the ‘Zera of Zilebi’ should all be forbidden or avoided.
3. Why diarrhoea is considered as a dangerous disease is, due to diarrhoea children will lose their body fluids rapidly and go in for dehydrated state and become tired.
4. At the time of diarhoea withholding of diet should not be done. If it is done so children will become more tired and weak.
5. If the child vomits along with diarrhoea it is better to withhold solid diet but liquids has to be fed.
6. At the time of diarrhoea giving salt and sugar solution is good for the children.
7. In one tumbler (200ml) boiled and cooled water add 2 teaspoons of sugar and three finger pinch of salt to make salt-sugar solution. This solution should be given to children who are having diarrhoea at frequent intervals.
8. If not, oral rehydration solution powder packets are sold commercially in the pharmacies. That can be purchased and can be mixed with water and drunk or given.
9. At the time of diarrhoea tender coconut water buttermilk, curd rice can be given at frequent intervals.
10. Arrow root porridge, rice water, food items made of rice without oil will not harm the children at the time of diarrhoea.