Causes of diarrhea in babies and toddlers can be varied but generally due to viral infections (rotavirus), bacteria that enter into the mouth through 4F (food, finger, feces, fly (the fly)), environmental factors are less clean, food allergies.
Prevention of diarrhea in infants can be done from the beginning of one of them is by giving BREAST MILK exclusively in infants up to the age of at least 6 months and resumed baby by administering MPASI (food companion ASI) thereafter. But the granting of ASI and itself should also be ascertained MPASi clean, i.e. by cleansing the breast before giving baby BREAST MILK to infants infected with the bacterium to evade.
Treatment of diarrhea in infants can be done by making sure the baby doesn't suffer dehydration by giving sufficient fluid intake. Give BREAST MILK as often as possible, create the liquid oral rehydration therapy by dissolving 1 tsp salt and 8 tsp sugar into 5 glasses of water are cooked. Then, create a lot of foods that contain water like porridge so not only replaced the fluid, but also easier to digest. If such measures were not enough to overcome the diarrhea in infants, may need to be brought to a doctor. Usually, the doctor will do an examination and electrolyte levels of white blood cells to ensure that his illness was not serious.
