The first "why": there is regurgitation, thrush in the baby, abdominal pain, sweating

• Why does the baby belch

After feeding, children often experience regurgitation. Regurgitation is the ejection from the stomach of milk, fresh or already curdled, for a short distance. Regurgitation should be distinguished from vomiting, which occurs in children much less often. Vomiting is the discharge of milk under high pressure (a fountain). It can be associated with spasm of the pylorus of the stomach or be a symptom of a beginning disease. If a child snatched up once and his state of health is not broken, there is nothing to worry about. If the vomiting recurs, the child has a fever, then the child is ill and you need to see a doctor.

Usually, regurgitation goes to three months of age. Regurgitation is associated with swallowing while sucking a small amount of air. Once in the stomach, the air increases the pressure in it. When it becomes sufficient to uncover the muscular sphincter at the entrance to the stomach, the air will go away. As the air bubble "floats" over the milk, the baby should be held vertically right after feeding for several minutes. Then the air, which is above the milk, will come out and will not regurgitate. If the child is put, the air, leaving the stomach, pushes out a small portion of milk in front of him. In this case, milk can get into the child's respiratory tract.

If the regurgitation is very frequent, occur even after you have held the child in a "column", the child is not gaining weight badly, you need to see a doctor.

•   Why do children have thrush?    

Thrush is a fungal infection of the oral mucosa, caused by a Candida fungus. It looks like white raids on the mucous membrane of the mouth and on the tongue. If there are a lot of raids, the child's condition may change: the temperature will rise, the child will become restless, begin to give up breast.

To eliminate thrush, you need, after feeding, to wipe the child's mouth with a finger wrapped in a gauze napkin and dipped in a 2.5% solution of soda (1 teaspoon of soda for a glass of water). With the same purpose, you can use a weak solution of manganese. But wipe the baby's mouth need not immediately after feeding, and after half an hour - after he vomited the air and part of the milk had time to go into the duodenum. Otherwise, the child can snatch everything that he just ate.

But it's better not to fight the thrush, but to prevent its occurrence. For this, it is necessary to observe hygienic rules: the nipple must be boiled (and the pacifier and the pacifier from the bottle) or thoroughly washed with soap every time before giving it to the baby.

• Why children of the first months of life often suffer from abdominal pain

Pain in the abdomen of children occurs due to the gases formed in the intestine, and the air swallowed by the baby during feeding. Initially, the baby's intestines are sterile. Gradually, it is populated with bacteria common to humans. Food is digested in the intestines with the help of digestive juices, and bacteria complete this process, during which gases are formed that inflate the intestines. This causes paroxysmal pain in the abdomen - intestinal colic. The child suddenly arches, blushes, begins to scream, push, pinch, pull them to the stomach.

To help the child, you need to quickly empty the bowels of the gases. There are several ways to do this. The first and most simple - put the baby on his tummy. This will create a support for the abdominal muscles, and he will get rid of excess gases. The second method is that you take the child lying on the back, by the legs and bring them to the stomach, pressing lightly on the knees. This will also increase pressure in the abdomen and ease the strain on the child. The next step is a light massage of the abdomen, which consists in the fact that you move the palm over your stomach (clockwise), pressing it lightly. To prevent intestinal colic, a child can be given dill water or a "Plantex" preparation. Dill water is a very old and well-proven remedy. It is also possible to remove the irritation of the intestinal wall to give the child tea with infusion or decoction of chamomile or tea with fennel and caraway of the firm "Humana".

If all these measures do not help, you can put a child gas pipe, which you buy at the pharmacy. If you could not find the standard tube, you can make it yourself from a small syringe pear. To do this, cut off the bottom with scissors.

Before entering the anus of the baby, the end of the tube should be lubricated with petroleum jelly or baby cream. To put the tube too deep into the rectum should not be. As soon as the introduction of the tube begins to evolve gases, immediately stop. Very often, along with the gases, feces begin to flow away, so the child should lie on a diaper or on a diaper.

Usually intestinal colic disturbs boys more than girls, and, as a rule, go to three months of age.

• What is considered constipation and how to deal with it

If your baby has no chair for one or two days, it's constipation. Causes of constipation may be different. If you feed your child with milk only, without giving him water, the reason may be that the child is not getting enough fluid. If the child is on artificial feeding or receives supplementary food, then you need to revise his diet. Rice porridge fastens. In this case, to drive a chair, you need to transfer the child to oatmeal porridge or add to the diet vegetable and fruit purees that contain fiber. It is necessary to fight with constipation as well as with intestinal colic. In addition, the child can put an enema. The volume of water administered with an enema should be about 10-15 ml per kilogram of body weight. A newborn is injected with 30 ml, and a child of one to three months 40-60 ml. It is not necessary to boil water for enema, it should be room temperature. In the water you can add salt, which will pull all the toxins that have accumulated in the intestine (1 teaspoon of salt per 500 ml of water).

• Does the child need to drink water

From 4 weeks of age the child needs water. The need for a liquid is determined by the nature of feeding, the state of health, climatic conditions and is approximately 100-120 ml per 1 kg of body weight.

Additionally, if the child experiences a thirst, appoint 50 to 200 ml of water per day. It can be given to suck from a bottle between feedings or at night - instead of feeding. Before eating, giving water is undesirable, because it can "kill" the child's appetite. The water should be boiled, at room temperature, without the addition of sugar. It can be unsweetened tea or slightly acidified with lemon juice. You can also give your child an unsweetened broth of wild rose.

• What is sweating and how does it differ from diaper rash

If the child on the neck and in the inguinal folds appear small red dots - this is a sweating. Most often, it appears as a result of overheating and poor compliance with hygiene rules. If you do not pay attention to the sweat, gradually it can capture an ever larger surface of the skin. Skin blushes and becomes vulnerable to germs, there are diaper rash.

Fragrances are located in the same places as sweating, but more often in the buttock area, in the inguinal folds and on the inner thighs. They can "proliferate" from a rash of rash or formed primarily because of inadequate care. Most of the diaper rash appears due to skin irritation caused by urine and feces. At first, diaper rash looks like reddening of the skin area, and if the measures are not taken, the affected areas begin to become wet, inflamed and even ulcerated.

It is easier to prevent rubbish and diaper rash than to treat it!

So that the child does not sweat, do not overheat it. Observe the temperature in the room and do not wrap your child around!

With diaper rash, the same situation - after each act of bowel movement and urination, the child should not be soaked in wet wipes, but washed.

The basic principles of the prevention of sweating and diaper rash: if the skin is wet in the field of diaper rash, it must be treated with baby powder; if it is dry and flakes, it should be lubricated with sterile sunflower oil or olive oil.