Five-month-old babies spit up after drinking milk, which may be caused by physiological factors, or may be caused by improper feeding or congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis.
1. physiological factors: five months of the baby gastric cardia mouth relaxation, and the stomach is partial horizontal growth, so after drinking milk may be gastric reflux, the phenomenon of vomiting after drinking milk. This is generally a normal phenomenon, with the baby’s age can gradually improve.
2. Improper feeding: When the baby drinks milk and inhales a lot of air, it may cause abdominal distension and vomiting after drinking milk. In addition, due to the small stomach capacity of the baby, if the baby is fed too much milk at one time, it will also cause the baby to spit up after drinking milk.
3. Congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis: In children, pyloric stenosis prevents the stomach contents from entering the intestines smoothly, thus accumulating in the stomach. After drinking milk, the stomach contents further increase and vomiting may occur. If the condition progresses further, the number of times and amount of vomiting may gradually increase.
There may be other reasons for your 5-month-old baby to vomit after drinking milk, so we recommend that you visit a hospital in time for a complete examination to determine the cause of the illness, and then give targeted treatment under the guidance of your doctor.