Parents often ask questions about their babies’ indigestion, such as “My son is five months old and his stools are a little thin with milk flakes. “My baby does not like to eat recently, is it because of poor digestion?” Indigestion is a common symptom in babies, indigestion can cause malnutrition in babies, mothers should pay enough attention to.
Common symptoms of indigestion
1.Produce sound
Due to the disorder of the digestive organism function, resulting in some food residues in the digestive tract, these residues by microbial fermentation will produce gas, these gases will cause the baby’s stomach bloating, burping, abdominal rattling, more farts and other symptoms.
2, reduce appetite
The accumulation of undigested food fermentation will reduce the baby’s appetite, and the baby will not eat or eat very little.
3.Vomiting
Babies often vomit and can smell a pungent, sour and foul odor from the mouth.
4.Abnormal bowel movement
Irregular bowel movements, the state of the stool is not normal, most babies due to gastrointestinal digestive problems will appear diarrhea diarrhea or constipation and other symptoms. Under normal circumstances, exclusively breastfed babies, poo is yellow or golden yellow, the consistency of uniform as paste or paste, occasionally thin and slightly green, sour taste but not odor, 2 to 4 times a day defecation.
Artificial feeding (milk, formula-based) baby, pale yellow or earthy gray, dry and hard, striped, often with milk flaps, with a distinct odor, stool 1 to 2 times a day.
5, sleep restlessness
Gastrointestinal discomfort can cause the baby to sleep abnormally, often showing unquietness and frequent turning over at night when sleeping.
Causes of indigestion in babies
Children’s digestive organs are not well developed, the secretion of digestive juices is not sufficient, the function of enzymes is not perfect, the stomach and intestinal mucosa is tender, digestive function is still relatively weak, if parents can not feed the baby correctly, so that the baby diet quality and quantity is not appropriate, damage to the stomach and intestines caused by gastrointestinal dysfunction, the baby will appear bloated, vomiting, thin stools, sour odor, and a large amount of undigested food residues, etc. Indigestion (wounded food) performance.
In addition to improper feeding, inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, abuse of antibiotics, low body resistance and cold tummy can also cause indigestion. Long-term indigestion in young children can cause insufficient nutrient intake, poor digestion and absorption, and affect growth and development. Especially for children within 3 years old, this stage is the most vigorous period of brain development, is a key period to determine the level of intelligence, if the digestive function is not improved in time, affecting the absorption of nutrients, and then affect the baby’s physical development.
What to take your baby to the hospital
If your baby cries out for abdominal discomfort, affects eating, loses weight, suffers from malnutrition and affects normal activities, you should go to the hospital to see a doctor.
Baby indigestion response methods
1, observe the baby’s condition, is not digested because of sickness, or eat what food caused, this must be analyzed.
2, if it is sickness leading to digestive system slowdown, and indigestion, this need to find the root cause, so that the baby’s condition treatment healed, in order to slowly restore the internal digestive function.
3, if it is eaten some more difficult to digest, or eat too much and cause, this need to let the baby do not eat so much food, try to eat some thin rice and other easily digestible food, but also do not eat too much greasy food, such as cakes, stew meat, etc..
4, let the baby rest more and let the baby recover under sufficient sleep.
5, medication-assisted treatment: It is recommended that the medication be handled under the guidance of a doctor. Mainly symptomatic treatment, inhibition of gastric acid secretion drugs, generally used for children with epigastric pain as the main symptom; pro-gastrointestinal dynamics drugs, generally for children with epigastric distension, early satiety, belching as the main symptom; eradication of H. pylori treatment, generally clear diagnosis after the triple therapy; also available mucosal protective agents.