For many sickness time tested home remedies woirk as well as modern medications or even better off.They are also cheaper and in some cases safer than modern medcin.
for example many of the herbal teas people use for home treatment of cough and cold helps do more good and cause fewer problems than cough syrups and strrong medcines some doctors recomend/prescribes.
Also teas,rice-waters or sweatend drinks many mothers give to their babies with diarrhea are offten safer and do more good than any modern medcine.What matters most is that a baby with diarrhea
gets plenty of liquids than a child without.
most children who dies from diarrehea die because they do not have enough water left in their bodies.So therefore note that the lack of water in the body is called '' DEHYDRATION''.
Dehydration results when the body losses more liquid than it takes in,this can happen with severe diarrhea especially when there is vomitting as well it can also happen in a very serious illness,when a person is too sick to take much food or liquid.
Please take note that aged people too or adults also experience deyhdration but is very common with babies or childreen and is sometimes very dangerious.
SYMTOMS/SIGNS OF DEHYDRATION;
- dry mouth
- Sudden weight lose
- Thirst (its always the first sign)
- Little or no urine (usually dark and yellow)
- sagging in of the soft spot in infants(usually arround the fore head region)
- Tearless eyes
- Loss of skin weight etc.
COMMON TREATMENT FOR DEHYDRATION :
- When sombody has wateary diarrhea acts very fast,give the person a lot of liquid to drink-dehydration drink is best or give a tin cereal porridge or gruel,teas,soups or even plain water.
- Keep giving food,give him food as soon as he or she start accepting the food give him frequent feeding of food they accept.
- For babies keep giving breast milk often as possible before other drinks or food.
If situation of dehydration get worst or more danger signs occur sick a medical doctor.
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