In case of poisoning with food, alcohol, or toxic substances that enter the stomach, one of the measures to neutralize toxins is to take intestinal adsorbents. Medicines in this group are administered into the stomach through a tube (during gastric lavage) or taken orally after the poison has been released through vomit. Enterosorbents can be of different natures, but their main quality is the ability to bind toxins and remove them out. The latest generation of drugs are distinguished by selective “absorption” - that is, they fix molecules of a certain mass on their surface, which allows them to remove harmful toxins, bacteria and viruses and leave beneficial vitamins and minerals in the body.
One of these drugs is the drug Enterosgel. In case of poisoning, it is used quite often, since it has virtually no side effects and is approved for use in infants, pregnant and lactating women, and patients with a history of chronic diseases. Let's find out how to take it for various types of poisoning.
Signs of poisoning
Doctors regard a sudden deterioration in the child’s health – vomiting and diarrhea – as possible poisoning of children.
However, the symptoms in a child depend not only on the body’s “desire” to remove the poison, but also on the toxic properties of the substance itself that is ingested:
- vomiting without diarrhea may be a sign of nicotine poisoning;
- dilation of the pupils occurs with alcohol poisoning;
- nystagmus or strabismus - in case of fly agaric poisoning;
- constricted pupils are a sign of opiate poisoning;
- impaired color perception - carbon monoxide poisoning;
- paralysis, double vision - symptoms of botulism;
- blindness - methyl alcohol poisoning;
- diarrhea, abdominal pain and vomiting accompany food poisoning. When food is contaminated with bacteria, the temperature rises. In case of poisoning, a child experiences headache, drowsiness, and poor appetite.
Compound
"Enterosgel" is a sorbent of hydrophobic nature, which is a porous structure of an organosilicon matrix.
The dominant substance of the drug is methyl silicic acid, which is effective in the fight against medium molecular weight toxins. The preparation contains additional elements: sweetener and purified water.
How to treat poisoning in a child?
Therapy consists of main areas:
- Prevent the absorption of poison into the blood;
- Application of an antidote (antidote);
- Removing toxic compounds from the body;
- Treatment of symptoms of poisoning.
Difficulties in treating children under one year of age are associated with insufficient function of the kidneys and liver, the organs responsible for neutralizing toxins and removing them from the body.
It is important to know
Regardless of the type of plant poison, it is necessary to begin treating poisoning in children with gastric lavage.
The volume of water required for rinsing: 3 years - 6 years: take 16 ml of water per kilogram of child’s weight, 7 years and older - 14 ml per kilogram of weight. After emptying the stomach of food debris, give the child Enterosgel sorbent.
Poisoning in children should be treated as quickly as possible. Before the doctor arrives, it is necessary to compensate for the fluid lost through vomiting and diarrhea - to give the baby a drink. This will also quickly remove toxins from the body. Drinks are given a few teaspoons every 5-10 minutes.
Pharmaceutical solutions (rehydron and others), boiled water, carrot-rice or raisin infusions are used.
Fever in case of poisoning in a child is eliminated by taking antipyretic drugs.
If the baby is breastfed, in addition to milk, you should give him boiled water. And after some time after food poisoning, you can return to your normal feeding regimen.
Food poisoning in a child with mushrooms, poisonous plants, and chemicals is treated in a hospital setting.
Side effects
Illiterate use of the sorbent provokes:
- nausea;
- vomiting;
- constipation.
To reduce the risks of negative consequences, children should be treated while drinking more water. If stool is retained, enemas are given for the first couple of days. If unpleasant symptoms do not go away within several days, they refuse to take it and, with the help of a doctor, select an effective analogue.
Sometimes during therapy with Enterosgel an aversion to the drug occurs. In this case, it is advisable to diagnose kidney or liver failure.
Diet for poisoning in a child
You need to start diet therapy with fasting. A child under 1 year of age who is breastfed misses several feedings. For older children, food is offered after the vomiting disappears.
What to feed a child if he is poisoned?
Food should be gentle on the stomach and intestines - this is a mandatory requirement for dietary dishes.
Pediatricians know what to feed a child in case of poisoning in order to provide the body with nutrients and enable it to recover from intoxication. Children who previously received complementary foods are given rice or buckwheat porridge prepared with milk and water in equal proportions. The porridge is pureed and diluted with hot milk. After a few days, you can give pureed vegetables. After 3-4 days - baby cottage cheese. Gradually, fish and meat are introduced into the diet in the form of a soufflé.
Children over one year old can be given biokefir or bioyogurt: they will ensure the restoration of the microflora of the large intestine after intoxication. The diet is expanding faster. Soups, purees, meat, fish, cereals are rubbed through a sieve.
What can a child eat if he is poisoned while vomiting?
To maintain water-salt balance, the baby should be given tea, rosehip decoction, salted or mineral water, and dried fruit compote. Feed only after vomiting has stopped.
Pediatrician Komarovsky believes that you should not force feed a child. Dishes on the children's menu should contain vitamins and be easy to digest, and drinks should be rich.
What can you eat if you are poisoned during diarrhea?
The menu should not include products that have a laxative effect and increase gas formation. During this period you cannot: baked goods, whole milk, brown bread.
Depending on the diagnosis, main symptoms, and diet treatment may vary significantly. In some cases, therapeutic fasting is recommended. After it, homemade crackers, oatmeal and rice porridge are gradually introduced. The first day the baby is fed often in small portions.
- What is allowed to eat? You can have mashed potatoes, rice porridge, white crackers, tea.
- What is strictly prohibited: fresh baked goods, pasta, chocolate, ice cream, chips.
The diet should be followed for about two weeks, then the child gradually returns to the regular menu.
“Smecta”
Antidiarrheal medicine with an adsorbing effect. “Smecta” is used when diarrhea of various origins occurs.
The recommended duration of treatment varies from three to seven days. For other indications, the drug is used in infants under one year old, one sachet per day, for children over one year old - two sachets per day, for adult patients the standard dosage is three sachets per day. The cost of the drug ranges from 100 to 180 rubles.
What to feed a child after poisoning?
Dishes are warm, pureed or served in crushed form - rubbed through a sieve or processed in a blender.
What can you eat after poisoning? Ready-made baby products are perfect for this: meat and fish soufflés, vegetable purees, porridge or home-cooked boiled or steamed dishes. On the contrary, you should exclude: cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage, wheat, pearl barley porridge.
What can you eat after a period of intoxication? During the recovery period, the menu consists of: boiled chicken meat, buckwheat porridge, natural yogurt, low-fat fish, kefir.
Diet period - 2-3 weeks from the moment of poisoning in children.
Treatment at home with the help of dietary nutrition will help to avoid chronic diseases of the digestive system and other complications.
Now let's talk about what to do while you are waiting for the doctor. So…
Positive properties of the drug
The medication has sorption and detoxification effects. The active component provides the ability to combine toxic compounds. The medicine forms a film on the mucous membranes of the digestive organs that binds toxic compounds in the intestines, as well as in tissues, with their subsequent excretion in the feces.
Enterosgel paste is an intestinal enterosorbent. The main substance of the drug is not absorbed into the bloodstream and has a therapeutic effect in the intestinal lumen. How should children take Enterosgel when vomiting, in what dosage?
First aid for child poisoning
Parents should be able to provide first aid to their child in case of poisoning before the ambulance arrives. This will help prevent the absorption of the toxic substance and reduce intoxication.
In case of poisoning with mushrooms, berries or medications, it is necessary to induce vomiting in the child by pressing on the root of the tongue. Rinse the stomach with a warm solution of table salt (2 - 4 teaspoons of salt per 1 glass of water) until the rinsing water is clean. The volume of liquid for gastric lavage should not be more than 3 liters.
What to give a child if he is poisoned?
After gastric lavage, enterosorbents are introduced inside to absorb the remaining poison.
They should be used as first aid for any food poisoning! But at the same time, it is necessary to know the permissible dosages and the preferred dosage form of the sorbent. For example, traditional activated carbon can damage the stomach lining of young children.
Modern silicon-containing sorbents (for example, Enterosgel) have high sorption activity, are available in gel form and are successfully used in pediatrics. Enterosgel absorbs not only pathogenic bacterial cells, but also their toxins, secondary mediators of inflammation, does not linger in the digestive system, is not absorbed, is suitable for long-term therapy and does not stain the stool, which is especially important during diagnosis.
Reviews
The opinions of parents who have used the sorbent are often positive. The medicine quickly relieves the clinical picture of intoxication, eliminates vomiting, and eliminates diarrhea due to intestinal infection. There are no problems with taking the product, since Enterosgel does not have a pronounced smell or taste.
A minority of mothers and fathers complain about the lack of effect and the development of constipation. Apparently, adults did not read the instructions carefully enough or violated the rules of use.
Doctors often recommend medication, but warn that it does not affect the cause of the disease. Therefore, treatment must be comprehensive. It is advisable not to overestimate the dosage and not to increase the number of doses yourself.
How to take Enterosgel for children?
Children are recommended to take Enterosgel 3 times a day:
- 5 – 14 years – dessert spoon;
- 2 years - 5 years - tea.
- In case of severe acute poisoning, doctors allow a dosage to be doubled.
Enterosgel should be in every home medicine cabinet, especially in summer!
A few hours later, already in the hospital, the doctors repeat gastric lavage for the child, after which they give a saline laxative (magnesium sulfate in a dose of 15 - 20 g in 100 ml of water).
If the cause of intoxication is reliably known - in the early period of poisoning, antidote therapy is carried out - an antidote is introduced into the body. For example, ethyl alcohol is used for wood alcohol poisoning, the mushroom venom of the toadstool is neutralized with lipoic acid, and for poisonous snake bites, a specific anti-snake serum is administered.
Removal of poison absorbed into the blood is carried out using forced diuresis (administration of fluids during diuretic therapy), hemosorption, plasmapheresis, hemodialysis.
In case of violations of the vital functions of the body, treatment of convulsive syndrome, a complex of anti-shock measures, etc. are carried out.
Are there any contraindications to the use of Enterosgel?
Enterosgel has virtually no contraindications. There were no cases of drug overdose. It can be taken by pregnant and lactating women, children of any age.
Enterosgel should not be prescribed for intestinal atony.
In case of individual sensitivity, side effects may occur: nausea, constipation. In case of severe poisoning, Enterosgel is prescribed in large doses, so the dosage of other drugs, the absorption of which from the gastrointestinal tract will be reduced due to the action of this enterosorbent, should be adjusted.
How to avoid poisoning?
- The child should be taught to wash his hands after visiting the toilet and before eating. Eat only washed vegetables and fruits;
- parents follow the rules for storing and preparing food;
- you cannot buy products of dubious quality in spontaneous markets and stores;
- you should not cook for future use in the summer months;
- when bathing children in ponds, it is worth remembering that pathogens of intestinal infections can live there;
- do not allow children to pick berries and mushrooms without adult supervision;
- do not feed mushroom dishes to children under 7 years of age;
- Medicines and various chemicals must be stored exclusively out of the reach of children.
Health to you and your child!
Opinions
Reviews of Enterosgel for vomiting in children confirm that the drug effectively fights intoxication and eliminates unpleasant symptoms. The drug has established itself as an effective and fast-acting medication for any form of poisoning and allergic reactions. In addition, the drug is widely used for hangover syndrome.
In most cases, the product is recommended to eliminate allergies in children. The choice in favor of Enterosgel is due to the fact that it is considered absolutely harmless to the child, has a minimum of contraindications and rarely causes negative effects.
Reviews from medical specialists about Enterosgel are no less positive: the drug perfectly cleanses the intestines, while reducing the load on the liver, with the help of which it is used not only for diarrhea and general intoxication, but also as a remedy for acne and for weight loss.
At the same time, it is necessary to remember that without physical exercise and diet correction when losing weight with the help of this medicinal drug, it will not be possible to achieve harmony. Moreover, even if the weight does not decrease, the benefits of Enterosgel prophylaxis for the body will be significant.
