Patient's question:
1、The baby sometimes has convulsions. What causes them? What are the symptoms? How should they be treated?;2、The baby has bowel movements every two or three days, and is breastfed. The doctor has recommended taking vitamin AD. Is it possible that the infrequent bowel movements are caused by taking vitamin AD?
Doctor's answer:
Hello, infantile convulsions have a certain impact on children's health. Actively preventing them is an effective measure to protect children's health. The main methods of prevention are:(1) Strengthening care and physical exercise for infants. Open windows frequently to ensure ventilation indoors and encourage infants to spend more time outdoors so their bodies can adapt to the environment, reducing the occurrence of infectious diseases.
(2) Pay attention to nutrition. In addition to milk-based diets, infants should be given complementary foods in a timely manner, such as cod liver oil, calcium tablets, vitamin B1, vitamin B6, and various minerals. Avoid letting infants go hungry to prevent hypocalcemic and hypoglycemic convulsions.
(3) Use medications appropriately and reasonably to prevent infants from accidentally ingesting toxic substances.
(4) Strengthen supervision. Prevent infants from falling and hitting their heads, which could cause traumatic brain injury, and avoid hitting infants' heads with hands arbitrarily.
If an infant experiences convulsions, let them lie on their side, loosen their collar, wrap a tongue depressor with a handkerchief or place a chopstick between their upper and lower teeth to prevent them from biting their tongue. Keep the infant calm and avoid unnecessary stimuli. If the convulsing infant has a high fever, use cool water, well water, or 30%-50% alcohol to bathe them, or use cold saline enemas. Administer Anaprox nose drops or intramuscular antipyretic injections. If the convulsions persist, immediately take the infant to the hospital for treatment.
Vitamins A and D are helpful in treating constipation.