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Worried For Overly Extended Belly Of A Child After Vomiting And Diarrhoea
MY 2 yr old has just gotten over a bout of vomiting n diarrhea for about a week. He has been in the clear now since sunday with solid stools and he is eating good again. However ive noticed the past few dYs that his belly is overly extended and very firm. What is this and shld I be worried?
Mon, 30 Jan 2017
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I have gone through your question and understand your concern. Post gastro-enteritis the normal microbes present in the intestine decline in number as they get washed away in stools during diarrhea. Those microbes are responsible to keep off abdominal bloating, which can cause distension of abdomen and firmness. In addition to this, other factors like high sugar contents in diet (including fruit juices and fluids taken to replace loss due to diarrhea/vomiting) can also cause abdominal bloating.
The other cause could be constipation as you mentioned solid stools in the query which can be hard, not semi solid or soft stool. Most medications taken for diarrhea/vomitings have side-effects of constipation.
Both the problems can be taken care at home with ease by adding probiotic's like yogurt, fibre rich food's like chia seed's and raisins and drinking enough water.
I have gone through your question and understand your concern. Post gastro-enteritis the normal microbes present in the intestine decline in number as they get washed away in stools during diarrhea. Those microbes are responsible to keep off abdominal bloating, which can cause distension of abdomen and firmness. In addition to this, other factors like high sugar contents in diet (including fruit juices and fluids taken to replace loss due to diarrhea/vomiting) can also cause abdominal bloating.
The other cause could be constipation as you mentioned solid stools in the query which can be hard, not semi solid or soft stool. Most medications taken for diarrhea/vomitings have side-effects of constipation.
Both the problems can be taken care at home with ease by adding probiotic's like yogurt, fibre rich food's like chia seed's and raisins and drinking enough water.
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