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Suggest Treatment For Frequent Bowel Movements In A Child

My girl child of age 8 months was suffering from fever from last week . Doctor prescribed Mefast and Kefor dry for 3 days. After 3 days he prescribed Malidens suspension and cefoxin dry for 3days. Now she is cured from fever and at present she is having dysentery -like symptoms( stomach pain while passing frequent stools). What is advisable for her now? Is it due to body heat or effect of medicine
Mon, 24 Nov 2014
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Mefast (mefenamic acid) and Malidens (paracetamol) are supposed to bring down fever. Cefoxitin (mefoxin) is a broad-spectrum cephalosporin antibiotic intended to reduce the gastrointestinal infection that could be causing the fever which could also have killed the beneficial bacteria of our bowels and cause antibiotic associated diarrhoea. I think you wanted to say diarrhoea and not dysentery which means blood stained stool. If that is really the case, you would need to consult your doctor and get it treated. If it is diarrhoea, you need to give her curd/yogurt which contains beneficial bacteria and will help in restoring the balance. Alternatively, you can also give Enterogermina one sachet twice daily for 3-4 days.

The diarrhoea is not due to body heat. It has probably caused due to the beneficial bacteria getting killed by the antibiotic medicine prescribed.
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Suggest Treatment For Frequent Bowel Movements In A Child

Mefast (mefenamic acid) and Malidens (paracetamol) are supposed to bring down fever. Cefoxitin (mefoxin) is a broad-spectrum cephalosporin antibiotic intended to reduce the gastrointestinal infection that could be causing the fever which could also have killed the beneficial bacteria of our bowels and cause antibiotic associated diarrhoea. I think you wanted to say diarrhoea and not dysentery which means blood stained stool. If that is really the case, you would need to consult your doctor and get it treated. If it is diarrhoea, you need to give her curd/yogurt which contains beneficial bacteria and will help in restoring the balance. Alternatively, you can also give Enterogermina one sachet twice daily for 3-4 days. The diarrhoea is not due to body heat. It has probably caused due to the beneficial bacteria getting killed by the antibiotic medicine prescribed.