Flatulence in babies may be caused by crying, congenital megacolon, congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis and other reasons. To help baby flatulence need to be treated symptomatically and causally through general measures, medication and surgery.
1. Symptomatic treatment: when the baby flatulence, parents can properly massage the abdomen to the navel as the center, in accordance with the order from left to right, to a certain extent, can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, to help the baby discharge flatulence. Secondly, you can also appropriate hot compresses on the baby’s abdomen to improve blood circulation. Generally take the above measures can be gradually relieved within a short period of time.
2. Causal treatment: for congenital megacolon caused by flatulence, children need to follow the doctor’s instructions to use lactulose oral solution and other laxatives to promote the exhaust, but also with the doctor to use 0.9% saline enema, and then relieve the symptoms.
If conservative treatment is not effective, enterostomy or radical surgery is needed. For natural hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, it may be necessary to follow the doctor’s advice to use 1:1000 atropine solution to release the pyloric stenosis, it is also necessary to reduce the amount of breastfeeding, some of the children can be endoscopic balloon dilatation, and if the treatment effect is not satisfactory, it is necessary to take the pyloric annular myotomy, transperitoneal laparoscopic surgical procedures and other surgical treatments.
When the baby has flatulence, if it is excluded as a physiological phenomenon, it is necessary to go to the hospital in time and cooperate with the doctor to actively treat the original disease. The above medications should be used in accordance with medical advice.