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Suggest Treatment For Loose Motion In A Child

HI MY SON IS 1.8 MONTHS HE IS NOT WELL AS LOSE MOTIONS AFFECTS HIM. HE IS NOT EATING ANYTHING. FOR LAST WEEKS HE IS PASSING SOMETIMES GREEN AND WATERY STOOLS. DR. SUGGESTED STOPIT : AN ORAL SUSPENSION AND ONE MORE MEDICINE ZENFLOX. MY CHILD IS HAVING SEVERE RASHES AS HE PASS STOOLS 15 TIMES.PLZ HELP.
Tue, 27 Jan 2015
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The doctor is treating it on the correct lines. Stopit contains loperamide which can reduce the frequency of loose stools. But it is a medication to be used with caution. Do not administer more than 3-4 doses. The stool frequency may continue for upto 5 days and you would have to be patient. Zenflox contains an antibiotic that needs to be continued for 5 days. The mainstay of treatment however, would be ORS (oral rehydration solution) prepared by mixing a full sachet in 1 litre of water and given sip by sip. The rashes need to be examined. Giving cetirizine syrup should however help in reducing the rashes. Green stools are due to rapid transit through the large intestines (that occurs in diarrhoea) and I would not worry about that.

In case the child develops lethargy, you would have to take the child to emergency room of a hospital with pediatric facilities without delay.
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Suggest Treatment For Loose Motion In A Child

The doctor is treating it on the correct lines. Stopit contains loperamide which can reduce the frequency of loose stools. But it is a medication to be used with caution. Do not administer more than 3-4 doses. The stool frequency may continue for upto 5 days and you would have to be patient. Zenflox contains an antibiotic that needs to be continued for 5 days. The mainstay of treatment however, would be ORS (oral rehydration solution) prepared by mixing a full sachet in 1 litre of water and given sip by sip. The rashes need to be examined. Giving cetirizine syrup should however help in reducing the rashes. Green stools are due to rapid transit through the large intestines (that occurs in diarrhoea) and I would not worry about that. In case the child develops lethargy, you would have to take the child to emergency room of a hospital with pediatric facilities without delay.