Abdominal pain is one of the most common symptoms in pediatrics, and is also an early sign of certain diseases. Because of the baby’s young age, abdominal pain attacks can not be accurately expressed, only crying, two lower limbs curled or hand pressed abdomen, showing a look of pain, many parents see such sudden conditions, “love their children” will be indiscriminately taken hot compresses, massage the child’s abdomen or take painkillers to help The pain will be relieved. In fact, the child’s abdominal pain should first actively look for the cause, blind massage or hot compress abdomen can not play a role in relieving pain, and even aggravate the lesion to cause serious consequences, which is not alarming.
Baby abdominal pain home care four misconceptions
Mistake one: indiscriminate massage
When baby abdominal pain parents often habitually use their hands to massage the abdomen of the affected child, trying to achieve the purpose of relieving abdominal pain through massage. However, if the child’s abdominal pain is caused by inflammation, bleeding or obstruction in the abdominal cavity, abdominal massage will only make the infection spread, bleeding and obstruction aggravate. For example, abdominal pain is caused by obstruction of the blood supply to the intestines that are trapped in intussusception. If massage is carried out blindly, it may aggravate the condition by deepening the site of intestinal entrapment.
Mistake 2: Indiscriminate hot compresses
The role of hot compresses is to promote local blood circulation, accelerate the absorption of inflammation and relieve muscle spasm, therefore, some parents encounter pediatric abdominal pain, will think of using hot water bags on the abdomen to relieve pain. In fact, the acute purulent infection of the gastrointestinal tract or perforation resulting in serious infection is not suitable for hot compresses. For example, acute appendicitis perforation caused by abdominal pain, then give a hot water bag compress may promote inflammation of the septic place to break down, the formation of diffuse peritonitis, leading to serious consequences.
Mistake 3: taking painkillers indiscriminately
For abdominal pain before the cause is clear parents should not easily give the child analgesic and antispasmodic drugs, such as atropine, belladonna tablets and other drugs, because although taking these drugs can temporarily stop the pain, the child’s crying will stop, but in essence the child’s body disease is not improved, but continues to develop. Because the painkillers temporarily stop the pain and hide the truth of the disease, the “alarm” from the disease cannot be detected at an early stage, which can easily lead to misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis.
Mistake 4: Deworming when abdominal pain is roundworms
Some parents know that their children’s abdominal pain is caused by roundworms, so they immediately give their children roundworm medicine. In fact, not all abdominal pains caused by roundworms in children can be dewormed. In particular, deworming drugs such as Enzyme and Intestinal Wormer should not be taken, because taking such drugs can stimulate the worms to move around, scurry or twist into clusters to aggravate abdominal pain, and individual patients may even experience biliary ascariasis or intestinal obstruction.
Possible diseases of abdominal pain in babies
The first thing you should do when you find your baby’s abdominal pain is to analyze the cause of your child’s abdominal pain, starting with the location, nature and accompanying symptoms of abdominal pain.
1.If the baby’s abdominal pain occurs before or after meals, and the site of abdominal pain is in the upper abdomen accompanied by vomiting, the first thing to think of is acute or chronic gastritis and gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer, especially those with periodic recurrent attacks should be considered gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer.
2, frequent abdominal pain located around the umbilicus may be due to ascariasis.
3, abdominal pain with frequent vomiting, and no defecation, exhaustion is likely to be intestinal obstruction.
4, abdominal pain soon after the change in the nature of the stool in the form of egg flower soup-like or watery stool is mostly due to diarrhea.
5, infants and toddlers paroxysmal crying, vomiting, discharge of jam-like stool, if at the same time abdominal feel lump most likely baby is suffering from intussusception.
6, biliary ascariasis of the child is manifested as abdominal pain onset pain, legs flexed, pale, but abdominal pain after the activity as normal.
7, if the child’s abdominal pain is initially located in the upper abdominal pain, later fixed in the right lower abdomen should be considered acute appendicitis.
8, the baby abdominal pain at the same time the two lower extremities skin bleeding spots to think of allergic purpura caused.
9.Once acute abdominal pain occurs in a child who originally had an inguinal hernia, you should first check the inguinal area of the child to see if there is an incarcerated hernia.
10, abdominal pain in breast-fed babies occurs shortly after feeding, suddenly and repeatedly crying loudly and restlessly, with red cheeks, pale lips, tense abdomen, two knees bent toward the abdomen, cold feet, two hands clenched fist or open mouth for sucking milk action suggesting intestinal cramps.
11, generally speaking, children with paroxysmal abdominal pain but not severe, playing as usual when relieved is mostly functional abdominal pain.