Colic in infants

Colic in infants are painful spasms that have a paroxysmal nature and are accompanied by cries and anxiety of the child. If during the feeding or quiet sleep, the games the baby starts to push, groan, press the legs to the stomach and scream, then he has an attack of colic.

The causes of colic in infants are very diverse:

1) By the third week of a child's life, the need for milk sharply increases, which means that the time that he was applied earlier is not enough for him. The child eats, in fact, only the "front" milk, which is saturated with carbohydrates. And these substances stimulate the child's body gas formation, which in turn causes painful colic in the baby.

2) In the child the muscular apparatus of the intestine is not yet sufficiently mature.

3) It is also an immature enzymatic function of the baby's intestines, which means that the sensitivity to those products that can cause gas formation is increased.

4) During feeding, the child may seize the air due to improper application to the breast or the use of bottles for feeding.

Most often, the baby's colic begins to appear from the third week of his life, lasts up to about three hours a day and goes on alone until three months of age. More often this problem arises in those children who quickly gain weight. How can you help to prevent the manifestation of colic in babies?

1) Toddlers need to be breastfed.

2) To start feeding a child is necessary at the first request. The longer the intervals from one feeding to the next, the more likely that the baby will capture air during the subsequent feeding, which naturally leads to the ingress of gases into the intestine and, consequently, the appearance of painful colic in infants.

3) It is necessary to carefully monitor whether the baby takes the breast correctly, it is necessary that he captures the areola, and not just the nipple, with this capture the least chance of air entering the child's gastrointestinal tract.

4) After feeding, the baby should be given a strictly vertical position and keep it until the gases escape.

5) Mom also must adhere to a certain diet - it is necessary to refuse for the time of feeding from those products that can stimulate gas formation - mushrooms, cabbage, tomatoes, canned meat, fried and fatty foods.

6) As soon as the baby begins to push and worry, sometimes it is enough to simply warm his tummy, for example, putting on it a diaper heated with iron.

7) Also in such cases, a warm bath can help. In the water it is better to add a decoction of herbs that provide a calming effect, for example, motherwort, lemon balm, valerian mint.

8) A good effect can be given by carrying out a massage of the tummy - stroking it clockwise, and also gymnastics - bringing the legs to the stomach with their simultaneous bending and pressing them onto the abdomen, turning the child from back to back, on the stomach. These simple tricks help to facilitate the release of gases, which are the cause of bloating, difficulties with bowel movement and, in fact, the child's anxiety.

9) You can also use a gas outlet tube or the softest syringe with a soft tip. Before the introduction of the tube, you need to massage the tummy, then lubricate the tube with a special sterile oil, put the child on the left side, bend his legs in the knees, bring them to the stomach, then insert the tip of the tube into three to four centimeters and massage his belly again. After seven to ten minutes, the gases and contents of the intestines will recede.

10) You can drink a child with warm herbal teas on fennel. Dill water is also used , which is prepared from one teaspoon of dill seeds per glass of distilled water, put it on a water bath for twenty minutes, strain and bring the volume back to two hundred milliliters. To the kid to give on one teaspoon up to four times a day before meal.