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What Causes Diarrhea And Intermittent Vomiting?

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Posted on Mon, 13 Feb 2017
Question: my daughter is having watery diarrhoea and intermittent vomiting. she is 3 yrs and 4 months old and 11kg by weight.

please suggest.
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Answered by Dr. Diptanshu Das (1 hour later)
Brief Answer:
Acute gastroenteritis possibly due to viral cause.

Detailed Answer:
Thanks for asking on Health care magic.

I have gone through your query and understand your concerns. It seems that your child has acute gastroenteritis. The mainstay of treatment is to maintain proper hydration. Electrobion or ORS may be given 50-100ml/kg over 4 hours depending on the hydration level. The following link would give you the specifics of the same:
http://www.yyyyyyyyyyyyy.com/mobile/yyyyyyyy/fen/orlrhydrtntyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.htm

Give some antiemetic like ondansetron for the vomiting. Give zinc supplements like Syr. Zinconia 5 ml once daily for next 10 days. Avoid giving milk for a week. You may give some prebiotics and probiotics like Econorm XXXXXXX twice daily for next few days. Hopefully things would return to normal in 3-4 days. In the meantime you need to monitor the urine frequency. If it is ok, you need not worry. If not, fluid intake needs to be increased.

Regards
Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Prasad
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Follow up: Dr. Diptanshu Das (1 hour later)
Thank you doctor... She is also having fever since Friday evening. Since Saturday night the fever is more than 102 and even after giving Calpol and Meftal P , fever is not going. Slight fever is constant . Today the fever is constantly high. There is no vomits now but she did only one watery motion today and one yesterday. kindly suggest.
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Answered by Dr. Diptanshu Das (26 minutes later)
Brief Answer:
You need to be patient.

Detailed Answer:
Possibly she has a viral gastroenteritis and that is the cause of the fever. You need to continue to give Meftal P (more preferable). Irrespective of treatment the fever is likely to be there for 5-7 days. If the fever lasts for more than that, a few tests would need to be done to rule out enteric fever as a possible cause.

Regards
Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Prasad
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Follow up: Dr. Diptanshu Das (11 hours later)
Thank you once again Doctor. That was really helpful.
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Answered by Dr. Diptanshu Das (6 minutes later)
Brief Answer:
Glad to be of service.

Detailed Answer:
Glad to know that it helped. Feel free to ask me back directly if you ever have a health related query in the future.

Regards
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Vaishalee Punj
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What Causes Diarrhea And Intermittent Vomiting?

Brief Answer: Acute gastroenteritis possibly due to viral cause. Detailed Answer: Thanks for asking on Health care magic. I have gone through your query and understand your concerns. It seems that your child has acute gastroenteritis. The mainstay of treatment is to maintain proper hydration. Electrobion or ORS may be given 50-100ml/kg over 4 hours depending on the hydration level. The following link would give you the specifics of the same: http://www.yyyyyyyyyyyyy.com/mobile/yyyyyyyy/fen/orlrhydrtntyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.htm Give some antiemetic like ondansetron for the vomiting. Give zinc supplements like Syr. Zinconia 5 ml once daily for next 10 days. Avoid giving milk for a week. You may give some prebiotics and probiotics like Econorm XXXXXXX twice daily for next few days. Hopefully things would return to normal in 3-4 days. In the meantime you need to monitor the urine frequency. If it is ok, you need not worry. If not, fluid intake needs to be increased. Regards