Overcome Dehydration in Infant

The main actions that you should do to cope with infant who are dehydration is as soon as possible to replace body fluids that much out.

The liquid that you provide can be plain water, fruit juice, ice cream, or other liquid forms. Importantly, given the type of fluid in accordance with the health condition of the baby's body. For example, if he has a cold, do not give away ice cream.

When infant should be taken to the doctor? When the infant diarrhea and vomiting. If he had diarrhea and vomited liquid remains you have provided, then the body will remain dehydrated. This situation obviously should not be allowed to drag on. Typically, doctors will replace the baby's body fluids via a drip.

Tips to avoid. Preventing is always better than cure. Here are some things you can do to avoid dehydration in your infants.

• Familiarize your child to drink regularly every day, especially if the infant a lot of activity. Fluids consumed should be set to vary.

• Children should drink at least 8 glasses of water a day. You can give in the form of a combination of different types of liquids, such as fruit juices, fresh fruits, soups, and others.

• Give your infants a drink before starting the move, such as playing in the yard.

• Stay give drink to the baby, even though he is not very thirsty.

• Do not give children drinks that contain caffeine, such as iced tea and cola type drinks containing soda, especially when the infant was jealous enterprising activities and lots of sweat. Why? Caffeine can increase the burden on blood flow. As a result, the blood was so thick and sweat production was reduced.

• When the hot air and hot weather, stop for a moment the child's activity. If possible, do it for several times. While resting in a cool, let your baby eat a variety of fluids.

• Give first aid, in the form of ORS solution, if the baby is vomiting or diarrhea

Identify Causes Dehydration In Infants

There are some health problems often experienced by infant. One of them, dehydration or lack of fluids. So, recognize the symptoms of dehydration and proper way to handle it. Generally, children are dehydrated from lack of drink or less a lot of fluid that is inserted into the tiny body. This may be due to the baby is too busy playing that I forget to drink.

Besides the lack of fluid, there are also other causes of dehydration in infants, including:

• Flu or a cold. Dehydration can occur when the baby was sick with the flu or a cold. Although not frequent vomiting and did not pee, he will still feel weak as people hunger and thirst. Typically, this happens because he refused to eat or drink.

• Fatigue, even if your baby is not too much to play and get enough sleep. This occurs due to how much you sweat or energy that comes out.

• Infected with the virus that causes vomiting and diarrhea. Even though your baby does not pee back and forth, getting enough sleep, and fatigue are not playing, he could have become dehydrated from vomiting and diarrhea are experienced.

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Beware of chronic dehydration symptoms

Symptoms of chronic dehydration can cause dry skin, wrinkles and can harm the liver, joints and muscles.

Did you know that dehydration occurs when as many as 1% or more of the weight of our body loses fluids? When viewed from the reduced amount of fluid from your body, dehydration can be categorized into mild dehydration, moderate and severe.

Mild dehydration

Dehydration of the initial level is not difficult to overcome. Although fluid loss occurs relatively mild, (usually characterized by reduced 1-2% of body weight). However, this level of dehydration can cause the body work less efficiently. Although mild, early stages of dehydration has some risk to the health of our bodies. But it does not need are concerned, because mild dehydration can usually be overcome by replacing the lost fluid.

Moderate dehydration

This level of dehydration occurs when the body loses fluid as much as 3-5% by weight. If this occurs, the strength and endurance can decline significantly, even the main effect is the body will experience a high level of fatigue. If the dehydration of this kind occur constantly, it will result in chronic dehydration can affect kidney function and lead to kidney stone formation. In addition, chronic dehydration can also cause dry skin, wrinkles and can harm the liver, joints and muscles. Not only that, other effects of dehydration is that it can lead to cholesterol problems, headaches, high blood pressure (hypertension), fatigue and constipation.

Severe dehydration 

Occurs when the fluid level in the body lost more than 5% of body weight. Dehydration is very serious will happen when the body loses fluid as much as 10% or even more than the weight of the body. If not treated quickly, the level of dehydration can be very dangerous. To overcome this type of dehydration, required hospitalization or intake of fluid injection into a blood vessel to restore body fluids that have a lot missing.

Keep in mind that thirst is not a good indicator for the symptoms of dehydration. If you're thirsty, it is likely that dehydration effects that you experience. To know the symptoms of dehydration in adults, the following indications:

Dry mouth (xerostomia),
Chapped lips or dry,
Dry eyes,
Decreased elasticity of the skin,
enophthalmos,
Sweaty hands and feet,
Headache,
Severe headache,
Dizziness,
Tired,
Confused and sensitive,
Loss of appetite,
&Burning sensation in the stomach,
Feeling "empty stomach" or pain in the abdomen,
Limited urine and dark with a strong aroma.

Not only occurs in adults, dehydration can also occur in infants. Infants who are dehydrated usually looks pale and his eyes glazed. Other symptoms can also be seen from at least urine is released by your baby. Check also the crown of the baby or so-called Fontanelle. Be careful, if the fontanelle looked sunken, then your baby is dehydrated! This examination can be seen in infants aged 12-18 months, because at that age the baby crown will usually be close.

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Can dehydration cause headaches

Dehydration also causes headaches either acute or chronic. In severe cases, dehydration can cause a person's risk of fainting and even death. Dehydration or loss of body fluids in large quantities can lead to a variety of disorders including brain functions such as: decreased concentration and thinking power.

For you who do not know much about dehydration, the following is a simple explanation of the causes and symptoms of dehydration. Coupled with ways to prevent headaches due to dehydration.

Headaches due to dehydration can be caused by several factors, such as:
• Lack of water intake, especially after physical exercise and in hot weather.
• Migraine, throbbing headaches that occur in one or both sides of the head is usually accompanied by nausea, coming shortly after a meal or strenuous activity in hot weather. Perspiration causes water in the body drained.
• Intense throbbing headache on both sides of the head, appears accompanied by intense thirst, nausea, fatigue, sensitivity to light, and diarrhea. This causes the body to lose water supply.
• Chronic headaches are accompanied by intense thirst and excessive urination in diseases such as diabetes mellitus, diabetes insipidus, impaired kidney and adrenal gland.
• Dehydration caused by vomiting, diarrhea, caused by heavy menstrual bleeding, burns, heat stroke, the intake of caffeine and excessive alcohol, drugs diuretics, antihistamines, or calcium channel blockers. All these conditions cause the water in the body was drained and discarded.
However, headache is not the only symptom of dehydration. Sometimes symptoms of dehydration can be seen from the appearance of dry and sticky mouth, feeling tired and weak, dizzy, dizzy vision, dry skin and wrinkles, dark urine, and constipation.

Preventing Headaches Due to Dehydration
To prevent and treat headaches due to dehydration, the first thing to do is find the cause. Dehydration can be caused by diet, environmental temperature, physical activity, disease, or drugs that you consume. Well, here is a common way to prevent dehydration, namely:
• Drinking enough water.
• Consumption of fruit and vegetables as an additional water intake.
• Avoid strenuous physical activity in hot weather.
• Avoid consumption of alcohol or excessive caffeine.
• Reduce coffee and black tea.

Dehydration is a serious condition that needs attention. So, from now on notice and give your body more attention especially to meet the water needs proportionately. Begin drinking one glass of water every 30 minutes to prevent dehydration include headaches that accompany it prevents.

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