Patient's question:
My baby is five and a half months old. About 20 days ago, he got intestinal inflammation for some unknown reason. The medication Smecta and Mamai Ai didn't work. The stool test showed 5~10 white blood cells, and the stool color was black and green. I'm asking everyone what I should do now!Doctor's answer:
Colitis includes viral infections, bacterial infections, or allergies. Many parents immediately assume that their baby has an infection when they have a fever, diarrhea, cold symptoms like a runny nose, and mistakenly label it as "bacterial infection." In reality, this is not always the case. The majority of common infections are viral, and antibiotics are ineffective against viral infections. The symptoms of the illness include significantly more frequent bowel movements than usual, with stools slightly bloody or containing pus cells (this requires a hospital test). If pus cells appear repeatedly in stool tests, and the stools are sometimes dark green. I would also like to remind mothers that some hospitals test for white blood cells instead of pus cells, and it is only when a large number of white blood cells gather together that they form pus cells. If the white blood cell count is very low, with only 3~5 cells, it should not be considered colitis.