Patient's question:
My child is 15 months old and has had diarrhea for 3 months. Sometimes the stool is watery and curd-like, and at other times it is pasty. The stool is sometimes green or yellow, but it has no odor. Both stool routine tests and bacterial cultures were normal, with no presence of trophozoites or rotavirus (negative). The appetite is good, and there are no signs of significant dehydration.Doctor's answer:
If there are no or only a few white blood cells in the stool, it indicates diarrhea caused by non-invasive factors (such as viruses), which is mostly watery diarrhea and sometimes accompanied by dehydration symptoms. Treatment principles: Continue eating, reasonably allocate, maintain nutrition; rapidly correct water and electrolyte imbalance; control intestinal and extraintestinal infections; symptomatic treatment, enhance nursing care, prevent and treat complications; avoid the overuse of antibiotics. In this case, it should be differentiated from physiological diarrhea: it is more common in infants under 6 months, mostly breastfed, appear fat, often have eczema, and does not affect development.