Colic in infants - a painful spasms with paroxysmal in nature and accompanied by shouts and anxiety of the child.If, during the feeding or restful sleep, games, baby begins to push, groan, prim legs to his stomach and screaming, then he begins an attack of colic.
reasons for colic in infants most diverse:
1) By the third week of life had greatly increased demand for milk, and hence the time that it was applied before, it is not enough.The baby is fed, in fact, only one "front" milk that is oversaturated with carbohydrates.And these substances stimulate the child's body in the gassing, which in turn causes painful colic baby.
2) The child has bowel muscular system is not yet mature enough.
3) Also, the enzymatic function of the intestine immature kid, and hence increased sensitivity to those products that can cause flatulence.
4) During feeding the baby can capture the air because of the poor attachment to the breast or the use of feeding bottles.
Most often colic in infants begin to emerge from the third week of his life, to last about three hours a day and independently tested to the age of three months.In most cases, this problem occurs in those children who gain weight quickly.What can help to prevent the manifestation of colic in infants?
1) Babies need to breastfeed.
2) to the baby must be on the first of his request.The longer the intervals from one feeding to another, the greater the likelihood that the child will capture the air during the subsequent feeding, and this naturally leads to the ingress of gases in the intestines and therefore to the appearance of a painful colic in infants.
3) Care should be taken, whether the baby is taking the breast, it is necessary that it captured and areola, not just the nipple, with this capture less likely to hit the air in the gastrointestinal tract of the child.
4) After feeding the baby should be given a strictly vertical position and keep it so as not depart gases.
5) Mom must also adhere to a certain diet - you need to give up on feeding on those products that can stimulate flatulence - mushrooms, cabbage, tomatoes, canned meat, fried and fatty foods.
6) As soon as the child begins to push and show concern, sometimes simply by warming the stomach, for example, put on it by using a heated iron diaper.7
) Also in such cases can help warm bath.The better to add water decoction of herbs that provide a calming effect, such as motherwort, lemon balm, valerian peppermint.
8) Good effect can give holding tummy massage - stroking it clockwise and gymnastics - bringing the legs to the abdomen with their simultaneous bending and by pressure on their stomach flips from the back of the child on his side, on his stomach.These simple techniques to help facilitate the entry of gases, which cause bloating, difficulty in bowel movement and, in fact, the child's anxiety.
9) You can also use the vapor tube or syringe with the softest myagonkim tip.Before the introduction of the tube is necessary to make the tummy massage, and then grease the tube special sterile oil, put the child on the left side, bend his legs at the knees, bring them to the tummy, and then enter the tip of the tube into three or four centimeters, and again to massage his tummy.After seven to ten minutes depart gases and intestinal contents.
10) can Popo baby warm herbal teas on fennel.Also used dill water, which is made from one teaspoon of fennel seeds in a glass of distilled water, put it in a water bath for twenty minutes, strain and bring the volume back up to two hundred milliliters.Baby give one teaspoon up to four times a day before meals.
