Newborns with food retention will have symptoms such as abdominal distension, belching, nausea, vomiting and refusal to eat.
Neonatal food retention is mainly related to spleen and stomach insufficiency, gastrointestinal motility disorders, improper diet and low exercise. When neonatal food accumulation occurs, there may be no obvious symptoms in the early stage, and with the aggravation of the condition, the child is prone to abdominal distension, belching, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, sour stools and other symptoms, and may also experience crying and restlessness due to physical discomfort, and poor quality of sleep and other symptoms.
When it is clear that a newborn baby has accumulated food, it can usually be relieved by adjusting the diet, clockwise massage of the abdomen and so on. However, for some children with severe symptoms of food accumulation, parents can apply gastric stimulants such as metoclopramide and domperidone, and acid-suppressing drugs such as omeprazole and ranitidine under the guidance of the doctor for the treatment of newborns.
As parents, pay attention to feed the baby on demand, breastfeeding mothers should also pay attention to the rationality of diet. Daily can be appropriate to take the newborn to do physical exercise, help to promote intestinal peristalsis. Parents are advised to follow the doctor’s instructions to give newborns medication, not indiscriminate use of drugs.