What Causes Irritation During Defecation In Children?

Posted on Sun, 24 Apr 2016

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Question : Hi, my 2.5year old son with 12kg weight has been complaining of irritation with bowel movement.... He has got semi liquid motion every 40-50mins since afternoon today.... Now he got fever of 102...... We have given him meftal p..... What can be the reason for the motion n fever? Anything more we should do now till we visit doc. Tomorrow morning?

Answered by Dr. Diptanshu Das (1 hour later)

Brief Answer:
Proper hydration is important.

Detailed Answer:
Thanks for asking on HealthcareMagic.

Your son probably has contracted a gastrointestinal infection which has given him both the fever as well as the loose motion. The mainstay of management would be to give him ORS (oral rehydration solution) to make up for the lost water and salts. Whenever there is rise of temperature you need to give paracetamol or meftal-p (minimum interval of 6 hours). Also give tepid sponging.

I would not stop you from visiting a doctor but treatment with antibiotics is not essential unless associated with bloody diarrhea (dysentery) and irrespective of use of antibiotics it will take 3-5 days to recover.

Regards

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar

Follow up: Dr. Diptanshu Das (24 minutes later)

Thanks..... Will keep track of his water intake...... Through the day his water inflow n outflow has been decent. One of our neighbors of same age is suffering from viral fever, is it possible that my son has picked it up from him??

Answered by Dr. Diptanshu Das (26 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Possible

Detailed Answer:
Thanks for writing back. Indeed it is possible for your son to get a viral fever from the other child. However, these viruses are anywhere and therefore anyone could get such an ailment.

Regards

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar