2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21
Diarrhea, or, more simply, diarrhea, as well as vomiting, is a common cause of malaise in children. Therefore, caring parents should always have in stock an effective and safe remedy for dehydration of the baby's body. This is exactly what the drug "Regidron" is. Instructions for use for children of this powder are provided for informational purposes in this article.
What is the composition of the drug "Regidron"? These are sodium chloride (in other words, the common s alt that we eat), sodium citrate, potassium chloride and dextrose. In other words, these are s alts that, getting into the body with a liquid, keep it in it. With dehydration, which is a consequence of diarrhea and vomiting, the balance of s alts is significantly disturbed, especially the loss of potassium is great. The composition of "Rehydron" is as close as possible to water with glucose and electrolytes found in the human body. The drug is able to restore acid-alkaline balance of the blood, so it is often prescribed both as an effective remedy in the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders accompanied by diarrhea and vomiting, and for heat stroke, and as a preventive measure during intense physical exertion (in order to prevent dehydration).
How to breed "Rehydron" for children?
Take one sachet of the drug and a liter of warm boiled water. Dilute the contents of the sachet in it. The solution is ready to use!
How to drink Regidron for children?
1. The drug solution should be taken 10 minutes after the next vomiting and each bowel movement.
2. The solution should be at room temperature.
3. Drink in small sips.
4. Observe the correct dosage of the drug "Regidron". Instructions for use for children says: in the first 10 hours, it is necessary to give from fifty to one hundred milliliters of solution per kilogram of the child's body weight. Then the dose is reduced and given at ten milliliters per kilogram of the baby's weight.
If a child is over three years old, he can drink up to one liter of the solution in six hours. And then - after each loss of fluid - you can drink 200 ml of the drug diluted in water in small sips. This regimen can be maintained for several days until complete recovery.
When you can not take Regidron?
Instructions for use for children of this drug must contain information about the following contraindications:
1. Increased potassium inbody.
2. Diabetes mellitus.
3. Arterial hypertension of the second and third degree. No side effects were found in the drug if all recommendations were followed.
Important to know
In case of severe dehydration of the body, saline solutions are administered intravenously, therefore, in case of severe diarrhea and repeated vomiting, consult a doctor!An overdose of Regidron is also dangerous. Instructions for use for children states that in this case, hypernatremia (increased sodium content in the blood) may develop, as a result of which the child may become weak, inhibited. A rash may appear.
If dehydration is due to diabetes, kidney failure or any other chronic disease, do not self-medicate, seek qualified help.
Pay attention! It is urgent to call a doctor if after taking the drug the child has the following symptoms:
- drowsiness;
- lethargy;
- increase in body temperature to 39 oC;
- bloody stools.
The following phenomena also serve as a reason for contacting a specialist: a decrease in body weight by more than 10%; diarrhea for more than five days, sharp pain.
The drug "Regidron" should not be mixed with other drugs. Diluted powder or opened sachet should not be refrigerated for more than two days.
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