Newborns have intestinal flatulence and colic, what should parents do?

If the child is lactose intolerant caused by eating milk, resulting in stomach pain, you can give your child some lactase to relieve the child's colic flatulence, and if the child is caused by cow's milk protein allergy, the mother can adjust the formula for the child.

Give the baby something that is better to digest and absorb, do a good job of keeping the baby warm, drink some soup, gently massage the baby's belly, and you can also use a hot towel to wet the stomach.

It may be that the baby has a cold when eating, or it may be that the food eaten is not suitable for digestion, so it will have colic. You should do a good job of keeping warm, give the baby some warm water, give the baby something good to digest and absorb, eat less and eat more often, don't eat too much at one time, if the stomach still hurts, go to the hospital in time.

In such a situation, parents should take their children to the hospital for examination in time, and should also rub the child's abdomen, and should also pay attention to the child's living habits and eating habits.

Try to rub your child's belly as much as possible, but also pay attention to keeping warm, eat less raw and cold food, and drink more hot water.

The baby now has unexplained crying, unsteady sleep, easy to wake up, stomach rumbling, these symptoms are indeed the phenomenon of intestinal flatulence and colic, which will affect the baby's sleep, but will not affect the absorption of breast milk. This is a common intestinal discomfort in small babies, which gradually disappears after 4-6 months of age, and will not affect the growth and development of the baby, so parents do not have to worry. Parents can follow the following suggestions to relieve their child's intestinal discomfort.

1. Hold the baby face down on your forearm or lap and shake gently. Give a certain amount of pressure on the abdomen, and the baby will feel a little more comfortable 2 Gently massage the abdomen for the baby, and parents can rub the palms of their hands and massage them clockwise with the navel as the center. Increase the baby's gastrointestinal peristalsis, so that the child will be much more comfortable.

3. If the baby's belly is very swollen, flatulent severely, and the stomach is rumbling, it means that there is a problem of intestinal flatulence, and simethicone can be used to help the baby pass gas, feeding before each feeding, twice a day, 10 drops each time directly into the baby's mouth. Simethicone is safe and non-***, parents can rest assured to give it to their babies, it is recommended that the baby has flatulence, and simethicone can be stopped directly. After each feeding, burp your baby until he can burp up, which can effectively prevent him from spitting up.

4. The baby does not sleep well, then parents can use a small quilt to wrap the baby when the baby sleeps, and appropriately leave a gap between activities, so that the baby will feel like a state of curling up in the mother's belly, which will give the baby a certain sense of security. If the baby can urinate 6 diapers every day, it means that the feeding is sufficient, there is no need to add milk powder, breast milk is the most ideal food for the baby, which is incomparable to formula powder. If the feeding is insufficient, it is recommended that the baby within 6 months of age add moderate hydrolyzed milk powder, which is more conducive to the baby's digestion and absorption.

It is normal for a breastfed baby to have frequent and loose bowel movements.

The discomfort of colic is more pronounced than with gas. People with colic experience paroxysmal pain, which is mainly caused by an irregular diet, intestinal obstruction, or insufficient blood supply to the intestines. The discomfort of intestinal colic is more obvious than intestinal distension pain, intestinal colic is manifested as more paroxysmal pain, which is caused by intestinal spasm more, and can be seen in the following conditions such as irregular diet, insufficient blood supply, intestinal obstruction, and intestinal tract.

Intestinal flatulence refers to the feeling of abdominal distension, severe times there is a feeling of abdominal pain, often accompanied by abdominal distension, the sound of gas flow in the abdominal cavity, common in improper diet, slow gastrointestinal peristalsis, intestinal obstruction, the location of the pain is not fixed, and the intestinal flatulence can be relieved after the gas is discharged.

**The method is also different, flatulence generally chooses to improve diet and lifestyle habits, and if necessary, oral drugs to promote gastrointestinal peristalsis. Colic indicates that the condition is serious, and it is necessary to pay attention to it and go to the Department of Gastroenterology as soon as possible, except for intestinal obstruction, intestinal ischemic infarction and other diseases. The common manifestations of neonatal flatulence are abdominal distention, belching, abdominal discomfort, and poor appetite, and the common manifestations of neonatal colic are sudden crying, bending the knees, clenching fists, and red face and ears.

Neonatal intestinal flatulence is not self-limiting and needs to be aggressive**; Neonatal colic is a self-limiting condition, most of which can be completely ** by 3 to 4 months of age. The causes of colic and flatulence in newborns may be similar, but the symptoms are different. In colic, the child may have paroxysmal episodes of intense crying accompanied by dryness and restlessness.

Intestinal flatulence in newborns is different, and some intestinal flatulence is physiological, such as accompanied by intestinal colic; There are some pathologies, such as some intestinal diseases, most commonly intestinal dysdigestion, necrotizing enterocolitis, intestinal obstruction, or neonatal infection.

1. Intestinal flatulence generally causes the stomach to bulge. Second, babies with flatulence love to fart. 3. Colic is more painful than flatulence. Fourth, intestinal colic comes and goes. Fifth, flatulence babies have bad breath.

There is a difference between infant flatulence and infantile colic, flatulence: babies cry in the evening, often fart, and also fart when they defecate, making it difficult to defecate; Colic pain: crying in the evening, cold hands and feet, redness of the face, farting, etc.

1. What is the difference between baby flatulence and colic, and how should novice parents distinguish it?

2. How to relieve intestinal flatulence and intestinal colic?

The pain of the baby's intestinal flatulence is not so intense, if there is intestinal colic, the baby will have unbearable abdominal pain, and novice parents must pay attention. If your child is unwell, go to the hospital in time.

You can distinguish from the baby's expression, state, degree of crying, state during sleep, appetite, and poop pulled out, whether it is intestinal flatulence or colic.

The symptoms of colic are more pronounced, and severe symptoms appear after 15 minutes, while the symptoms of bloating are loss of appetite and easy palpitation and shortness of breath.

The onset of the disease is different, the symptoms are different, the manifestations are different, the causes of the onset are different, and the time is different.

Because colic is a very painful process, if the child cannot clearly express his physical discomfort, and the expression is very painful, and he will refuse to eat and cry, then it is likely to be intestinal colic, then if it is just flatulence, the child may only have some discomfort in the abdomen, which will not cause too serious a reaction; You can touch the baby's belly, so that the baby does not catch a cold again, let him drink more water, if it is very severe colic, or should go to a regular hospital for examination**.

Colic baby will feel stomach pain, will cry, how to coax will cry, and flatulence is the baby, it is possible because of food accumulation or inhalation of air, the stomach is swollen and does not want to eat, baby flatulence try to improve the child's diet structure, reduce the intake of food that is easy to produce gas, help the child massage the abdomen, accelerate the peristalsis of the gastrointestinal tract, and use a hot towel to help the child warm the abdomen.

The discomfort of colic is more obvious than that of intestinal flatulence, which is manifested as paroxysmal pain, if it is caused by irregular diet and insufficient blood supply, flatulence is mainly the swelling of the right abdomen; Don't let your baby be hungry for too long before feeding, don't let your baby cry, soothe their emotions, and let your baby eat some probiotics.