People who have experienced infant feeding all know that it's easy for a baby to spit milk after eating milk. Sometimes, when he accidentally spits a large pool on his pillow or on the person holding him, sometimes it's even sour milk that has begun to ferment. What causes this?
Causes of baby vomiting:
Neonatal vomiting can be physiological, such as normal newborns may have 1-2 times a day vomiting; it may also be the main manifestation of digestive dysfunction or gastrointestinal obstruction. Excessive or insufficient feeding, frequent change of formula, early addition of supplementary food, long-term crying before feeding, swallowing a lot of air at the same time, standing up and patting at the end of feeding or excessive posture change after feeding, such as changing diapers, can cause vomiting. But frequent vomiting, or accompanied by abdominal distension, diarrhea, fever and other symptoms, we should consider the existence of pathological conditions. Gastroesophageal reflux, infection, pylorus spasm and so on are more common, and yellow bile like substance in vomit should be considered.
The method of treating baby's vomiting;
1. Belch
After the baby drinks the milk, because in the stomach the lower part is the milk, the upper part is the air, can cause the stomach pressure, appears spills the milk, spits the milk phenomenon. Therefore, should be timely to help the baby belch, let the gas out. As long as the pressure in the stomach is reduced, the situation of vomiting and spilling milk can be reduced naturally.
2. Postural therapy
Put your baby on the right side of the pillow for at least 30 minutes, so that you can increase the speed of your baby's stomach.
3. Diet therapy
Increase the frequency of feeding, reduce the amount of feeding each time, so that a small number of meals. After breast-feeding, hold the baby for a while, do not rush to put him flat on the crib, which helps to reduce reflux. However, mixing too thick milk easy to cause gastrointestinal obstruction or diarrhea oh.
4. Drug treatment
If vomiting, spilling milk serious, ask the doctor to prescribe some drugs to stimulate gastrointestinal peristalsis to improve. However, drug treatment is the last consideration.