To prepare ORS, add a pinch of salt and a teaspoon of sugar to one tumbler of boiled water and stir the solution well. The child should be given this solution from the first few hours of the onset of diarrhoea. If the child starts vomiting or if the eyes become sunken rush to the doctor. If the diarrhoea persists, it is a common practice to lay the blame on an evil eye cast on the child and often faith healing is resorted to. While elders advise a host of remedies based on faith it is important not to ignore or delay medical attention for the child.
Some children start vomiting along with diarrhoea.
So those children are given small feeds at intervals of ten minutes or so. Arrowroot gruel, Bengal Gram gruel and Tender coconut water can all be given to children with diarrhoea. Most children affected by Diarrhoea do not require an antibiotic. However, in cases of Dysentery where the child passes blood or mucus in the stools, antibiotics are necessary. It is a major blunder to starve children with diarrhoea thinking that by providing rest to the intestine, the children will get better.