Signs of intestinal colic.
If your child, having eaten, suddenly begins to cry, press his legs and blush - it is most likely that it experiences pain in the intestines. The most common are colic in the abdomen of a newborn baby between the ages of two weeks to three months. At this time, the pain is most intense, the kids can scream and cry for more than an hour until the colic in the intestine completely abates.
Causes
The pains in the intestines are caused by several reasons: firstly, the gastrointestinal tract is not yet fully formed, and there are still too few useful bacteria for processing milk. It also happens that in the intestine there is an unhealthy microflora and intestinal sticks, which could get there even in the hospital, hospital or even at home. Therefore, gas formation becomes more intense, provoking colic in the intestine of the newborn.
Another reason leading to intestinal pain is the increasing burden on the still fragile organism, as milk is growing every day, and resources for its processing are not enough.
The third reason is aerophagia, ingestion of baby air during feeding. This happens if the child is incorrectly applied during feeding and then not held vertically, so that the air is released.
If the mother does not comply with the lactation diet, eating legumes, pears, nuts, this can also cause pain in the intestines of the child. Some "experienced" old women recommend to introduce complementary foods as early as possible, and it is often advised to start with apple juice, irritating the mucous membrane and causing bloating.
Another reason for the appearance of colic may be a lack of lactase in the child's body, which is necessary for the processing of mother's milk. Or it is fed with an unsuitable formula.
There is also a phenomenon, similar to the symptoms of pain in the intestines - the child is crying loudly, blushing, begins to cry violently and suddenly ceases. Parents often take this for intestinal colic and use various drugs to relieve pain in the baby's belly. But the stomach can not hurt, but the head, as a result of migraine headache or because of the peculiarities of the vessels. Babies with intracranial pressure respond more sharply to weather changes and changes in atmospheric pressure, and therefore are more prone to this kind of pain.
To understand where the child hurts, you need to highlight the most notable symptoms and the time when he cries. If the baby cries at a certain time every day (usually between 6 and 11 pm), you can see a connection with the weather change (children often cry in the rain) - most likely, it is a migraine headache. The baby outgrows such phenomena to three months, sometimes to half a year, and if the crying does not stop, then, perhaps, it has intestinal colic. But with pain in the abdomen, the baby begins to suck more milk, does not refuse from it, because the new food, entering the intestines, pushes the old one with the gases. If a newborn has a headache, he will not eat anything.
Another obvious symptom of intestinal pain is a swollen, resilient abdomen. If the stomach is not swollen, you can hear the sounds of digestion, but the baby is still crying - most likely, he suffers from a headache.
What to do in case of intestinal colic
The pains in the intestines affect negatively the nervous system of both the baby and the mother, because not every mother can be calm when her baby is crying loudly. Until recently, the best means against intestinal colic were dill water, herbal teas, reducing the gassing of drops (espumizan, simethicone).
Massage the stomach clockwise, circular movements from the right iliac sinus, can reduce pain. You can also cover the baby's belly with a warm diaper.
Some parents, if their child is tormented by gases, insert a gas pipe into his anus, well lubricated with petroleum jelly.
If a child begins to cry after eating, then, during the meal, something was broken, you need to change the position when feeding, make adjustments to the diet, stripping the food resulting in bloating, and eating dill and dill water.
No less effective means against any kind of pain is maternal love and tenderness. Mom can gently and caressingly cradle the baby, it will calm him and allow him to fall asleep.