Recently, bad news came from the health world. The reason is, this mysterious kidney failure lurks in children from the age range of 6 months - 18 years. This phenomenon is quite worrying for parents because it takes many victims.
Launching from the Indonesian Ministry of Health website, parents are expected to remain calm and alert to changes in physical conditions that occur in children. Especially if the child's health begins to decline and shows symptoms that lead to acute kidney failure. As explained by Dr. dr. Farabi EL Fouz, SpA. MKes on IG Live MAKUKU with Mama's Choice, there are symptoms of kidney failure such as diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, fever for 3-5 days, cough, runny nose, and often sleep.
"The most significant change from the symptoms of kidney failure is a change in the frequency of urination in your child who is getting less or not urinating at all," explained Dr. dr. Farabi EL Fouz, SpA. MKes.
In addition, another symptom that parents need to watch out for is a change in the color of urine that is too sensitive or brown. Changes in the color of urine that are increasingly concentrated usually occur in someone who is dehydrated or dehydrated. For this reason, parents are advised to meet their little one's fluid needs. Parents are asked to immediately check the condition of the little one if the urine color changes and the urine volume decreases or there is no urine for 6-8 hours during the day.
Usually, the hospital will recommend further tests on kidney function. If kidney function increases, further examination is carried out to confirm the diagnosis, and evaluate the possible etiology and complications. If the results of the examination are positive for acute kidney failure, the patient will then be treated in an intensive room in the form of a High Care Unit (HCU)/Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) as indicated.
Routinely Check Your Little One's Diaper To Beware of Kidney Failure Kidney
failure is closely related to the frequency of urination in your child. For this reason, parents are asked to routinely check the diapers used by their little ones. this is done as the first step to detecting acute kidney failure in children.
The unfortunate thing about parents' habits is that they haven't changed the baby's diaper if it's not wet and forgot to check how many hours the child has urinated. Parents often change their child's diapers after a long day of activities. So, do not know the exact amount and frequency of urination in toddlers. Whereas in the phenomenon of this disease, the amount and frequency of urination is an important symptoms.
Children who are active and move a lot will drink more often. If you drink often, it means that every 6 hours your little one will urinate. So, parents should be aware if the little one urinates 6-8 hours during the day and is accompanied by a change in the color of the urine. To calculate how much ideally your little one urinates in a day with the following formula:
Amount of urine (ml): weight (kg): time (hours)
While the standard volume of urine in children based on age is:
- Neonates (0-1 month) = 2-3 ml/kg/hour
- Infants (1-12 months) = 2 ml/kg/hour
- Children (1-10 years) = 1-2 ml/kg/hour
- Teenagers (10-18 years) = 0.5 -1 ml/kg/hour
This child's urine measurement can be done every 4-6 hours per day. If your little one is still using a diaper, then the amount of your little one's urine can be determined by reducing the weight of a wet diaper with a dry diaper.
Choose Diapers with Urine Indicators
To help parents check diapers regularly, mom and dad can choose diapers that are equipped with urine indicators. This urine indicator serves as a reminder alarm if your baby's diaper is full of liquid, this indicator will change color. Well, with this urine indicator, parents can also monitor whether their little one urinates frequently or not.
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