Patient's question:
My child is 15 months old and has had diarrhea for 3 months. Sometimes the stool is watery or curd-like, and at other times it is pasty. The stool is sometimes green or yellow, but it has no odor. Stool routine tests and bacterial cultures were normal, with no presence of parasites 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 small number of white blood cells in the stool, it indicates diarrhea caused by non-invasive factors (such as viruses), which is often watery diarrhea and may sometimes accompany 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 indiscriminate use of antibiotics. In this case, it should be differentiated from physiological diarrhea: it is more common in infants under 6 months, mostly breastfed, appear chubby, often have eczema, and does not affect development.