Prakt. lékáren. 2016; 12(6): 244-247 | DOI: 10.36290/lek.2016.059

Vomiting and diarrhoea in children - how can the pharmacist help?

Hana Kotolová

Ústav humánní farmakologie a toxikologie, Farmaceutická fakulta, Veterinární a Farmaceutická univerzita Brno

Diarrhoea and vomiting are very frequent symptoms, which we may meet in children. Usually, they are caused by gastrointestinal

disorders and have infectional base but they can have many other causes, which are in children specific but less common than

in the adults. The base of the therapy of the non-complicated diarrhoea and vomiting is securing of rehydration and following

realimentation. From the non-prescription drugs, we can recommend the intestinal adsorbents and probiotics, in older children

intestinal disinfectants and in especial cases the analogues of opioids with symptomatic effects as well. Always we get on to the

physician, if in association with the diarrhoea and vomiting there is a not-decreasing fever, headache, blood in the stool, abdominal

pain or if the state get suddenly worse.

Keywords: vomiting, diarrhoea, self-medication, non-prescription drugs

Published: December 1, 2016  Show citation