How to recognize the symptoms of acetonemia in a child, what to look for and how to help the child before the visit to the doctor? What are the causes of the development of acetone syndrome?
Instructions
Step 1
Acetonemia - an increase in the content of acetone bodies in the blood. This can be due to both a food error: fatty foods with a minimum amount of carbohydrates, and with serious endocrine disorders. Therefore, in the home first-aid kit, there must certainly be test strips for acetone. In case of a positive result, an urgent need to call a doctor.
Step 2
What can alert a mother even before the child's health deteriorates? First of all, nervousness, hyperactivity, especially if the baby is quiet by nature. Even a subtle smell of acetone from the mouth. These early signs of the development of acetone syndrome appear as early as 1-2 days before the deterioration of health. Take an acetone test and call your pediatrician.
Step 3
Acetonemia can be recognized by the following:
- profuse debilitating vomiting up to 50 times a day;
- an increase in body temperature up to 38-39 degrees;
- blush on the cheeks with general pallor;
- weakness, drowsiness, the child has difficulty walking, falls.
Step 4
If you see such symptoms, do an acetone test immediately. Such tests are sold in any pharmacy.
The testing method is simple: we collect the urine in a glass, dip the test strip into a glass of urine for a few seconds, then put it on a horizontal dry and clean surface, after 1-2 minutes the result is already visible.
The scale for evaluating the result is from white to dark crimson. If, after testing, the color of the indicator strip is from white to pale yellow - the content of acetone bodies is normal, the color of the strip from beige to crimson indicates an increase in the level of acetone bodies. A dark crimson color indicates a very strong increase in the level of acetone in the blood, in this case, most likely, the child will need to be hospitalized in a children's infectious diseases hospital.
If the test is positive, call your doctor immediately.
Step 5
Prepare in advance for your pediatrician visit. Most likely, you will be asked what the child ate for 1-3 days on the eve of an attack of acetone syndrome. Try to remember in detail the child's menu during this period. If the reason
acetonemia are not endocrine disorders, then it can develop later on the abuse of sweets, fatty and
fried foods, and can also be caused by prolonged fasting.
Step 6
As a rule, the treatment of mild forms of acetonemia is carried out at home and is reduced to removing toxins from the body, as well as adhering to a strict diet. The doctor will prescribe adsorbents, means to improve digestion, a solution to restore the water-mineral balance, disturbed by vomiting. A diet for acetonemia involves the exclusion of fats of any nature, fried, smoked foods from the diet. Allowed for use: potatoes or rice cooked in water, without sugar, salt and spices, dry biscuits, crackers (just not from bags, but oven-dried bread). After 2-3 days, as the condition improves, buckwheat and oatmeal porridge in water, without oil, vegetable soup is introduced into the diet.
Throughout the entire period of treatment, the diet contains mineral alkaline water without gas.
Treatment of a severe form of acetonemia is carried out stationary.
