Do you know what to do if the child smells of acetone from the mouth? What are the causes of the strange symptom and the first medical actions when it is detected? The organism of a small patient with such a smell signals that health has failed, determine the attendant symptoms.
Reasons for the odor of acetone in a child
If the child smells of acetone, then pay attention to his food, lifestyle. Common reasons for the appearance of an anxiety symptom are:
- Non-observance of proper nutrition principles. In children, diet imbalance is a common problem. The cause is a sharp starvation or an excessive number of unloading days. Children need more carbohydrates per day than adults. If they are not enough in the body, excessive amounts of ketone bodies enter the bloodstream, other secretions that provoke the appearance of an unpleasant odor of acetone from the mouth.
- Liver. If there are disorders in the functioning of the liver, then the processing of fats and proteins in carbohydrates can not be partially carried out by the liver, so glycogen stores are reduced. An additional symptom is an increase in body temperature.
- Dysbacteriosis. Pathological reaction of the intestine, which is accompanied by a lack of carbohydrates. This happens after a wrong splitting of carbohydrates in the intestines, in which some of them do not work.
- Pancreas. Infringement of a level of sugar in blood, system of processing of carbohydrates. In addition, jaundices can appear in the oral cavity, on the mucous membranes, acetonemic syndrome develops.
- Stress of the adrenal glands. An uncontrolled stress hormone provokes the body's use of fats instead of useful carbohydrates.
At
temperature Often when poisoning a child there is a strong odor of acetone from the mouth, a fever. In such a situation, it is considered necessary to wash the intestines with a cleansing enema. The enema fluid can be: simple cool water or sodium bicarbonate solution( 1-2%).The body temperature will drop only when acetone is not removed from the body.
Acetone odor when vomiting
This symptom is provoked by a metabolic disorder. Vomiting and acetoneemic syndrome may appear in the case of: current or previous disease of ENT organs, acute respiratory viral infection, poisoning, intestinal infections, concussion, diabetes mellitus. Disturbances of nutrition are the causes of nausea in children:
- If a small patient has vomiting and an acetone smell, eating is categorically restricted. The baby is given light meals only if the vomiting has stopped.
- Children should not be given too much fatty food per day.
- Not only an excess of food, but its "shortage" is a serious cause of the syndrome. Fasting should be avoided, every 3-4 hours the baby needs to take healthy food. A special diet should be observed in infants.
- Diabetes mellitus.
- Powerful stress, overwork, hypothermia.
Treatment of
Although a child under one year old, even a teenager, the diseases that provoke acetonemic syndrome should be diagnosed and treated immediately. Observe the baby's nutrition, focus on proper nutrition. The patient should eat in small portions, but often. Irritants of mucous membranes in food should not be, as well as animal fats. Excellent prevention will be a decrease in the level of fatigue, in the late afternoon the games should be calm, not too mobile, so as not to excite the nervous system.
If the patient remains at home, then you should give a drink of sweet tea or a carbohydrate drink. Drink clean water patient should often, because during vomiting, the body is deprived of a large amount of fluid. If you want to eat, you can feed your baby with a small portion of light food. Medicamental treatment means sorbents and antispasmodics. Bowel washing helps to lower the temperature, the level of acetone odor. If vomiting, unpleasant discharge does not stop, the parent should call an ambulance or call a doctor, so as not to aggravate the problem.