Dry heaving in baby’s sleep at night may be related to dietary factors, but also gastroesophageal reflux, indigestion and other factors, which can be treated by general measures and oral medications.
1. Dietary factors: If the baby eats too much spicy stimulating or high sugar, heavy odor food before going to bed at night, which may cause some stimulation to the mucous membrane of the gastrointestinal tract, and vomiting may occur. At this time, you can give your baby honey water and warm water to drink, etc., and avoid the use of stimulating food with heavy odor before going to bed in the daily life.
2. gastroesophageal reflux: due to individual differences, individual baby’s gastrointestinal function is not well developed, gastric contents are easy to reflux, reflux will stimulate the throat to cause vomiting, at this time to clean up the baby’s mouth in a timely manner, sleep can be properly elevated pillows, or under the guidance of the doctor to choose rabeprazole and other drugs to ease the situation.
3. indigestion: if the baby’s digestive function is relatively weak, too much food and drink at night will cause indigestion, will also cause the baby to sleep at night vomiting, daily according to the baby’s actual digestive situation, reasonable control of the amount of food and drink, or under the guidance of a doctor to choose a probiotic such as bifidobacteria, lactobacillus, etc. to regulate the environment of the intestinal flora, to help digestion.
When the baby sleeps at night vomiting, to timely appease the baby’s emotions, to prevent choking and coughing, and promptly go to the hospital for examination, active symptomatic treatment. The above drugs need to be used in accordance with medical advice.