Six-month-old baby has diarrhea for two weeks and turns to bacteremia.

A 6-month-old boy had diarrhea due to gastroenteritis for more than two weeks, and his parents thought it was a cold. After examination, it was found that salmonella caused gastroenteritis complicated with bacteremia. Fortunately, after treatment, he recovered well. Director Li Min Jun, director of the Department of Pediatrics of Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital, said that infants have weak resistance and poor gastrointestinal protection. If gastroenteritis occurs for more than five days, parents must be vigilant and seek medical treatment as soon as possible. Symptoms continued for more than 2 weeks without improvement. In mid-February, the baby boy began to have diarrhea, cough and runny nose. He thinks that a cold in the stomach caused the fever. He was sent to the clinic for medical treatment, and the diagnosis was also common viral gastroenteritis, also known as gastrointestinal cold. But for more than two weeks, the symptoms didn't improve, and my mother's intuition was wrong, so I transferred to the pediatrics department of Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital. Li Minjun, director of pediatrics of systemic bacteremia, initially judged that it was bacterial gastroenteritis according to the description of the baby boy's mother, and then cultured the feces and blood bacteria. At the same time, it was found that salmonella not only caused gastroenteritis, but also further circulated to the whole body with blood, becoming bacteremia. Antibiotics were used immediately. After taking the medicine for two or three days, the symptoms were relieved, the body temperature was stable, the milk and non-staple food returned to normal and the activities were full. After nearly 10 days of treatment, the blood bacteria culture was continued for the second time, and there was no salmonella in the blood. Bacterial gastroenteritis mostly occurs in adults or older children, and it is not necessary to treat it with antibiotics. However, the situation of this baby boy is different. Salmonella has spread to the whole body with blood circulation, which may affect other organs and even cause multiple organ failure and bacteremia. Half-baked eggs are susceptible to bacterial infection. Generally speaking, the cause of bacterial gastroenteritis is usually eating unclean food. Salmonella is often found in raw food, especially some people like to eat half-baked eggs, which is very dangerous for babies. If drinking water is not boiled properly, it may also cause salmonella infection. Children with poor immunity are prone to bacteremia. Children aged 65,438+0 years and 3 months to 65,438+0 years and a half will have the same gastrointestinal development as adults. Before this stage, the gastrointestinal protection mechanism was not good, and the mucosa could not resist bacteria, so bacteria easily entered the stomach and even invaded the intestinal mucosa, and circulated throughout the body through blood. Therefore, gastroenteritis complicated with bacteremia mostly occurs in infants. In addition, Director Li Min Jun reminded that patients with tumor electrotherapy, chemotherapy or AIDS are prone to gastroenteritis complicated with bacteremia due to poor immunity. Subscribe to the health Aloha audio-visual channel, read health knowledge more easily, and pay attention to your health every day! Line @ ID: @:/charity/article/26306/6-month-old baby's diarrhea turned to bacteremia in two weeks Keywords: gastroenteritis, salmonella, gastroenteritis complicated with bacteremia, Li Minjun, H,