Babies need to be burped immediately after feeding to avoid spitting up and reflux.
As babies’ gastrointestinal tract is not functioning well and their digestive ability is weak, they are prone to spitting up after eating milk. Frequent spitting up can lead to nutritional deficiencies, and may also lead to choking and coughing due to accidental inhalation of milk. Therefore, you need to burp immediately after each feeding, burping can effectively reduce spitting up.
In addition, the baby’s stomach is flat, after eating milk can be rapidly expanded, if the gastric cardia anti-reflux mechanism is not sound, the milk in the stomach is easy to reflux into the esophagus, the emergence of gastroesophageal reflux on the baby’s health can be adversely affected.
Therefore, in order to avoid milk reflux after eating milk, you need to burp immediately after eating milk, burping can effectively reduce the reflux of the situation, but you should pay attention to the road gently, do not use too much force, the specific can consult a professional physician’s opinion.