Patient's question:
The child of a friend has been having diarrhea recently, and the parents are very worried. Can they stop breastfeeding now? What can they feed the child? I gave the child a box of jujube paste. Is it okay for the child to eat it?Doctor's answer:
For breastfed infants, there is no need to stop feeding when they have diarrhea. Simply reduce the feeding amount appropriately, shorten the feeding time, and extend the feeding intervals. The mother should also eat less high-fat foods. Before each feeding, they can drink a large bowl of warm water to dilute the breast milk, which helps alleviate the infant's diarrhea symptoms.For artificially fed or mixed-fed infants, they can eat dates during diarrhea because dates can promote gastrointestinal recovery. If the condition is severe, milk and other staple foods should be temporarily stopped. The fasting period is usually 6-8 hours, and the longest should not exceed 12 hours.