- Reduce food intake during acute stage (the first few days of the illness when symptoms are prominent) but do allow your child to eat in small frequent meals as long as symptoms are not worsening.
- Withhold antidiarrheal medications when diarrhea subsides.
- Make sure your child is taking enough fluids. Give water, sports drinks, or clear broths. Juice and soft drinks should be avoided.
- Avoid drinking milk and soy product. Stay away from fried, greasy, or strong flavored foods.
- The best foods for your child are easily digestible foods, such as rice cereal, pasta, breads, cooked beans, mashed potatoes, cooked carrots, applesauce, and bananas.
- Stop feeding if there is vomiting. Rest for a few hours then try again.
- To prevent catching or spreading the virus, always wash hands thoroughly especially when eating and handling food, use separate personal items around your home, disinfect hard surfaces such as counters, doorknobs, faucets, separate raw food and from, practice good kitchen hygiene and separate raw from cooked food.
- Mild diarrhea may persist for a few days. Allow your child rest and continue to observe for symptom changes. Please return to the hospital as soon as possible if there are following symptoms：
- Worsening vomiting or diarrhea
- Signs of dehydration (e.g. decreased urine output, dry sticky tongue)
- Shock or loss of consioucness
- Persistent abdominal pain
- Irritable unconsolable crying
- Abdominal pain shifting to the right lower abdomen
- Decreased activity, very poor appetite, or complaints of weakness and fatigue
Acute Gastroenteritis (Stomach Flu) Management in Children
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