Patient's question:
My son is 3 months old. Lately, he has been having frequent loose stools with foam. The hospital examination revealed enteritis (a stool test was conducted), and the doctor prescribed medication.Doctor's answer:
Hello, Hi: Neonatal diarrhea, also known as neonatal indigestion and neonatal enteritis, is the most common gastrointestinal disease in the neonatal period. If a newborn frequently has loose stools, yellow broth-like stools, or egg-like broth with blood and mucus, and although the child does not often consume milk, there is a foul odor, crying, and irritability during defecation, these cases of diarrhea are mostly caused by pathogenic Escherichia coli, which is a common type of neonatal diarrhea. If there is no improvement in the stool after general treatment, and if watery diarrhea occurs more than 10 times, the child should be taken to the hospital for treatment.