Babies are in an important period of growth and development, and need adequate nutrition, if indigestion will prevent the absorption of nutrients, which is detrimental to the baby’s physical development. So, how to prevent indigestion in babies? What should I do if my baby has indigestion?
What is indigestion in children?
Indigestion is a condition that manifests itself as intermittent or persistent discomfort on the upper side of the abdomen after eating. As babies are growing and developing, their body functions are not yet fully developed, their digestive system is not yet functional, and their intestines are not yet able to work well.
Therefore, compared to adults, the gastrointestinal system of babies is still relatively fragile, if parents do not pay attention to the baby’s diet, it is easy to cause the baby gastrointestinal discomfort, so indigestion is more common in infants and children.
The main symptoms of pediatric indigestion
1.Produce sound
Due to the disorder of the digestive organism, some food residues are left inside the digestive tract, and these residues will produce gas through microbial fermentation, and these gases will cause the child’s stomach distension, burping, abdominal rattling, more farts and other symptoms.
2. Reduce appetite
The accumulation of undigested food and fermentation will reduce the child’s appetite, and the child will not eat or eat very little.
3.Vomiting
Children often vomit and can smell a pungent, sour and foul odor from the mouth.
4.Abnormal bowel movement
Most children have diarrhea, diarrhea and constipation due to digestive problems.
5.Sleep restlessness
Gastrointestinal discomfort will cause the baby to sleep abnormally, often showing unquietness and frequent turning over at night when sleeping.
Why does my baby have indigestion?
Indigestion caused by improper diet
1.Eating too fast and swallowing before chewing in place. Eating too fast can lead to inadequate chewing, causing obstacles to the digestive system.
2, eating too much. Eating too much, more than the burden of the digestive system, easy to cause a lot of food stagnation.
3.Eating irregularly. Often overeating is very harmful to the gastrointestinal, such as not eating on time, often eat late night snacks, etc.
4, too much preference for sweet, spicy, beer, fried, raw and other stimulating food.
5, eating while drinking an excessive amount of soup, these soups dilute the liquid in the stomach, which is not conducive to food digestion.
6, ate contaminated food is easy to cause stomach disease, which is not conducive to the body’s absorption of food.
7, eat too much mixed food. Some foods can not be eaten at the same time, such as accidental ingestion will cause a series of discomfort, serious can cause poisoning.
Other factors cause indigestion
1, the body temperature changes, affecting the normal work of certain enzymes in the body.
2, sleep at night the quilt is not covered well and other reasons lead to the baby’s stomach cold.
3, for antibiotics without the use of restraint.
4, the baby’s psychological and emotional changes.
What are the dangers of indigestion?
Although indigestion is a common disease in infants and young children, but parents must pay attention, too long is likely to lead to serious consequences.
1, easy to cause the child’s body weakness, often sweating
Sweating is very related to digestion, many babies due to long-term improper diet, it will lead to disorders in the sweating system, and thus regular sweating, leading to colds.
2. Teeth grinding in bed
There are many causes of teeth grinding such as children changing teeth, oral inflammation, etc. In fact, indigestion is also a factor.
3, more prone to allergies
Some babies have eaten foods they are not allergic to before when they have a bad stomach, but now they are allergic to the strange phenomenon.
4, affect the body development
Indigestion leads to the child’s lack of appetite, prone to the phenomenon of partial eating, which in turn affects the absorption of nutrients. The child is in an important period of physical development, indigestion on the child’s impact is quite large, serious may affect the child’s physical characteristics and intelligence level.
5, will make the child’s body calorie deficiency
Since food is difficult to be digested, it is difficult to produce heat to maintain a constant temperature environment inside the body.
6.Children are easily sick and slow to respond
Children in a long-term gastrointestinal condition will lead to weakness, nutrients can not keep up with the needs of the body, children will be easy to catch a cold, inattentive.