Intussusception in babies is a relatively common acute abdominal condition in pediatric surgery, which refers to the phenomenon of intestinal obstruction caused by a segment of the intestine entering the adjacent intestinal cavity. Intussusception has a high prevalence in our children, mostly due to intestinal dysfunction when complementary foods are added or weaning occurs. However, the disease is easily misdiagnosed as indigestion or gastroenteritis in the early stage, and untimely treatment leads to serious complications.
Infants and young children intussusception to do early prevention, the correct prevention methods below together with learning.
1, first of all, the baby to the stage of adding complementary foods, should pay attention to the principle of gradual progress, can not be too hasty. Before adding a new complementary food to make sure that the baby has been fully adapted to the complementary food added in the early days, the new complementary food generally requires an adaptation period of 5-7 days to avoid adding a variety of new foods at the same time.
2, the amount of food added to the baby should be properly controlled, following the principle of gradually increasing from less to more, for example, to feed the baby egg yolk can first let the baby eat a little, wait a few days later and then increase to half, and then let the baby eat one at a time after a week.
3, for the baby to add supplementary food should also follow the principle of thin to thick, when adding for the baby should start with rice soup, and then gradually become rice paste, rice porridge, should be from fluid, semi-fluid and then lead to semi-solid liquid food, so that the baby’s intestines have plenty of time to adapt.
4, the hot summer or baby’s body feel unwell when you should avoid adding new complementary foods for babies, this time the baby’s appetite decreased resulting in poor adaptive capacity, this time to add new complementary foods will lead to gastrointestinal discomfort may cause intussusception, so to add complementary foods according to the specific circumstances of the baby.
5, in addition, the effective way to prevent baby intussusception is to avoid baby diarrhea, parents should pay more attention to the weather changes in time for the baby to increase or decrease clothing, daily diet should be fed scientifically to avoid too hungry and too full, while the baby sleep to protect the baby tummy.