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Colic in babies: what is it?
When our baby can not calm down, since hisdisturbing strong pain in the abdomen, we feel incapable of helping your beloved child. We do not know what to do, in case of bouts of colic in the baby. The only thing that can calm us down - colic does not represent any problems for the child's life and pass by themselves to about 3 months of age. If they last longer, of course, you should pay attention to the problem and fully investigate the baby's body. Since ancient times, the or child because of acute pain in the tummy brought strong experiences to others. And what is offensive, there is still no remedy that would heal the baby from the problem. Moreover, physicians can not describe the nature of the onset of the condition. According to the arguments of the researchers, colic in infants is:
- air accumulated in the abdominal cavity. At the kid the walls of the intestine weak, fragile and pressing air causes pain. For this reason, doctors point to the wrong technique of artificial or natural feeding. That the kid did not cry after the "meal", you should watch his mouth and help to grab the nipple, chest;
- defective belching. After breast-feeding, a mixture, it is necessary to hold the baby in an upright position and allow him to regurgitate excess air;
- constant horizontal position of the baby. Accepted food, digestion, gas formation is due to the fact that the child is too much in the reclining position, and no one has canceled gravity yet. And so, the fibers of food swell and hardly pass through the intestines, causing sharp rubbers;
- cry baby. Here you can say there is a vicious circle. Crying with pain, the child opens his mouth strongly, seizes even more air and the attack of colic continues;
- binge eating. Overfeeding the child leads to the fact that all food can not be digested because of a lack of enzymes. As a consequence, food begins to ferment, gases arise that press on the walls, causing pain.
Symptoms of colic in infants
The main sign that the baby has colicis strong crying and restlessness. Attacks begin suddenly, can last from 30 minutes to several hours. There may also be a swollen tummy, flushed with the tension of the cheeks, pulling the legs, pressing, the baby arches. It should be understood that even the smallest personalities have their own individual gestures and habits, including pain. It is necessary to be patient with patience, caress, to study the proven means, before helping the babe with colic. First of all, it is necessary for the nursing mother to revise her diet, to exclude products that can cause discomfort, gases, fermentation, etc. To listen to the recommendations of the elders in the family who, after feeding, wore the baby in a vertical position, were allowed to regurgitate completely. It is more common to wear a baby in your arms, to walk on fresh air. To monitor the temperature in the child's room, the air must always be fresh and clean. See also:
