
Diarrhoea remains a national health problem due to the frequency and mortality rate remains high. At five in Indonesia, on average, experience diarrhea 2-3 times a year. With the introduction of oral rehydration salts, the mortality rate from diarrhea has been reduced significantly. However, children suffering from malnutrition remain high, which may be the result of diarrheal diseases in children among others. Here are briefly described in the prevention and treatment of diarrhea in the home.
Bowel habits in children
In general, children defecate as often as three times a day, often rare, and rarely as once every three days. forms fecal stool water. under normal conditions, a chair like a banana. Seen from the water content of the feces of “liquid” water level (the highest is varied, usually occurs in acute diarrhea), “soft” (like porridge), “form” (normal stool, such as banana) and hard (with a little water in a state of constipation). drink in infants of 0-2 months, not to mention the milk, the incidence of colon cancer more often, which can be 80-10 times a day with watery, frothy and smells sour. While the baby’s weight gain to normal, is not to be classified as diarrhea, but it is a temporary lactose intolerance due to incomplete development of the device tract.

