Dealing with Stomach Flu in babies and toddlers

Bringing up babies make you doctors in your own right , dealing with their day to day issues make you such a pro at catching symptoms and giving simple treatments that you are no less a health care expert In dealing with small sickness if at all they arise. With infants it is easy to evaluate their symptoms and guess what's bothering them as they eating and their routine is under your guidance and care. You know what they have eaten and what could have triggered the stomach flu, depending on that you should call your pediatrician and ask for an antibiotic if the diarrhea and vomiting is severe. If not too much then you can ask your pediac for a probiotic to deal with the flu bacteria.

In infants it is usually milk that causes stomach flu so first you need to stop giving them formula milk and put them on your breast milk or on fruit juices even mashed rice or soup made out of cereals can be given to them.

Chicken soup also helps fight stomach flu but milk and vegetable soup should be strictly avoided. In toddlers who spend time a day care centers or school going kids, it is tough to evaluate what went wrong to cause stomach flu. Kids who go to school or day care centers are out the whole day, what they eat how they eat whether they washed their hands or no before they ate or when they used the washroom, did they eat something rotten or raw are questions that are all unanswered. I such times evaluating the cause is very tough so its best to immediately take your kid to the doctor to check the symptoms and the severe-ness of the ailment. Stomach flu or Bug Alert! Oh mighty lord stomach flu is more like a bug attack on your stomach and as described by all pediatrics is a misnomer. Symptoms of this bug are upset stomach leading to vomiting, diarrhea, nausea weakness and excess stomach pain and in most cases slight fever.

There are 2 major viruses that cause stomach flu in children during winters it is Rotavirus and spring and summer you have to save them from adenovirus. But with new bacteria's are being seen you can't just label these 2 to cause stomach flu.

Stomach flu leads to loss of appetite in children and that needs to be kept a check on as low appetite can further lead to dehydration and weakness.

Keeping them well hydrated with clear liquids like juices, water, coconut water and clear soups will give them some strength. For infants watch for 2 days on the doctors medicines if it doesn't go down immediately take the bay to the doctor.  For bigger kids best to take them to the doctor as soon as they show stomach flu symptoms. But in case you see blood in their stools or vomit please rush to your nearest health care center immediately.