Diarrhea in a child can be caused by physiological factors (malnutrition, stress) or pathological causes, which include intestinal infections, food allergies, inflammatory and drug-induced damage to the intestines. To diagnose the etiological factors of the disease, ultrasound and X-ray imaging of the gastrointestinal tract, coprogram and bacteriological examination of feces, general clinical and serological blood tests are performed. Treatment of diarrhea involves a diet, adequate oral or parenteral rehydration, etiopathogenetic therapy (enterosorbents, antibiotics, probiotics).
Mushy stools are softening of stools that look like separate soft pieces or a heterogeneous liquid mass. The symptom is often accompanied by abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, flatulence. Defecation disorders are observed with stress and nutritional errors, infectious and specific inflammatory bowel diseases, fermentopathy. To determine the cause, a survey ultrasound of the abdomen, colonoscopy, endoscopy, X-ray of the gastrointestinal tract, coprogram is performed. To normalize the stool, enzymes, probiotics, antibacterial agents are used.