Every holiday, adults are "fat three pounds", and babies are "love indigestion". Adults can lose weight when they are fat, and the baby has indigestion, which not only hurts the baby himself, but also upsets his parents.
Because the child's gastrointestinal function is not yet sound, the diet lacks self-control, and it is easy to have indigestion after overeating. So what are the causes of indigestion? What are the symptoms? What should I do if my child has indigestion? Let's follow the small editor to see how to answer it~
What are the common causes of indigestion?
Indigestion in children can be caused by a variety of factors, such as: diet and environment, gastric acid secretion, Helicobacter pylori infection, digestive tract motor dysfunction abnormalities, psychological factors, etc.
Common dietary and environmental causes of indigestion in children are as follows:
1, eat too much new food: when letting infants and young children try to eat a new food, the amount at a time can not be given too much, to gradually increase, so that the stomach and intestines have a process of adaptation.
2, eat indigestible food: due to the poor digestion ability of infants and young children, parents should give children to eat food that is easy to digest and absorb according to the age characteristics of children.
3, master the principle of adding complementary food: after 6 months of the baby, parents need to add complementary food to the child, in the process of adding, pay attention to, each time only add 1 new food, from less to more, from thin to thick, step by step.
Starting from an iron-rich puree food, such as rice flour, vegetable puree, fruit puree, meat puree, egg yolk puree, gradually increasing the variety of foods, and gradually transitioning to semi-solid or solid foods, such as rotten noodles, meat foam, crushed vegetables, fruit grains, etc.
Each time a new food is added, feed for 3 consecutive days, and closely observe whether the baby has any adverse reactions such as rash, diarrhea, constipation, vomiting and other allergies within 3 days, and then add other new foods after adapting to a new food.
Pay attention to nutritional balance during the process of addition. Let the child's diet be more varied and diversified, and avoid partial eating, picky eating, and food that is too monotonous. Do not add salt, sugar and other condiments to your baby's 1-year-old food supplement.
4, eat too miscellaneous: in the festival, there are many delicious things at home, this bite, that eat a piece, the mouth is addictive, but the stomach can not stand it, bloating, abdominal pain, vomiting and other symptoms, which has indigestion. The biggest feature is abdominal pain, which is because the stomach and intestines cannot bear such a large burden, so they are abnormally peristaltic and produce spasmodic abdominal pain.
5, work and rest time change: in the festival, the time of three meals a day is not regular, the child's eating law is disrupted, the gastrointestinal work rhythm is also disrupted, and the child's digestive function has also appeared.
6, eat too much: children have poor self-control, do not know hunger, see like to eat will eat a lot, this situation needs adults to help him control, otherwise, a large number of food accumulated in the stomach, intestines, stomach, intestines will have to overload operation, digestion can not be, it is easy to malfunction.
What are the manifestations of indigestion in children?
Vomiting, anorexia: infants and young children manifest as milk leakage; Children can manifest as poor appetite, and no matter how much the parents threaten and induce, the child is not interested in food.
Abdominal distention, abdominal pain: infants and young children will have abnormal crying, sleep restlessness; Children are manifested by crying out after eating a bloated stomach and stomach pain.
Diarrhea, constipation: infants and young children will contain flaps in their stools; Children present with increased frequency of bowel movements and changes in traits. If the child has long-term indigestion, there will be intestinal dysfunction, which will lead to constipation.
Malnutrition: Children with long-term indigestion cannot absorb enough heat, protein, vitamins and trace elements normally, which in turn can lead to thinness and malnutrition.
How is indigestion treated in children?
Adjust the diet structure, so that meat and vegetarian collocation, thickness and fine combination, give children more easy to digest and fiber-rich food, such as fruits and vegetables, etc., to avoid eating too much greasy and difficult to digest food.
Xiaobian reminds: Babies with indigestion often have a loss of appetite, bad breath, blueness on both sides of the bridge of the nose, white and thick tongue, gastrointestinal discomfort, and unsteady sleep at night. Children with symptoms of dyspepsia must be diagnosed and treated by a professional doctor, pay attention to a regular diet, eat three meals a day, can be appropriately added, nutrition should also be balanced.
When the baby has indigestion, you can soak some hawthorn tablets to drink, help digestion, you can also go to the pharmacy to buy some stomach digestion medicine, if the situation is serious, you have to go to the hospital in time.