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Mar 15, 2011

Babies often abdominal distension, mother feeding mistakes

Babies often cry more than because of the flatulence causing abdominal pain. Expert analysis, if the baby is frequent abdominal distention, excessive crying, then first of all, parents should check their diet.


If you are breastfeeding, mother to check their own eating, try to exclude pulses and spicy food, and see whether the child\'s symptoms gradually improved. If the baby is feeding with formula milk powder, you can change the other brand of milk powder to try. Swap after milk, to about two weeks to see the effect. If the baby has added complementary food, the watch is added to the food supplement to the corn mash, chestnut cream or mashed peas, beans such as mud, these grains whole grains can cause fiber of the colonic gas. In addition, apples, pears, of pure fruit juices containing high concentrations of sugar, is also leading to infant abdominal gas condensation in poor incentive.


In some cases, cause flatulence in infants is not the correct way of eating. Case of breastfeeding, if at the time of baby, mothers breast and mouth position of pendulum is not appropriate, the baby is likely to take in too much air, that eructation or abdominal distention. Correct posture is to enable the child\'s face is on the breast, not render in a way, to ensure that his mouth to nipple and areola are all included. Used bottle feeding baby easier inhaling excessive amounts of air. If a child is bottle to drink milk, mother heard \"cuckoo\" bubbling sounds, or see the milk from the child\'s mouth flow out, then that child wrapped with nipple do not closely, should try to make the nipple is always full of milk. In addition, the bottle nipple hole size to fit, so as to avoid air gap through the nipple and into the baby\'s body. Baby hungry for too long, will suck too short to Swallow a large amount of air, so don\'t let the baby is hungry for too long before breastfeeding.


Ease flatulence method: try to make the baby gap in infants, like eating half the time to stop, let the baby upright sitting on the mother\'s leg, beat his back gently to promote hiccups, the stomach of gas by the discharge of the esophagus. When baby cries easily flatulence, in such cases, mothers should give comfort or hug, by adjusting the degree of his emotions to prevent flatulence increased. In addition, give the baby\'s abdominal massage and be gentle to help bowel movement and gas discharges to improve digestion and absorption.


If the baby his appetite is good, no vomiting, normal-weight increase, so this type of abdominal distention abdominal distention mostly belonging to the functional, without special treatment. If the baby is sick, such as respiratory infections, diarrhea or constipation, can easily lead to gastrointestinal motility and digestion-absorption function variation, and thus produce flatulence, even the appetite. If you have these symptoms should get medical treatment.


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