Tasty and plentiful food is a distinctive feature of the red days of the calendar. But maybe it's time for us to change our habits. How to help your baby with colic and bloating?
The winter is long and overcast, and frequent holidays are very bright. The soul asks for a holiday in a big way, feasts - so that the table is bursting with food. It is a pity that children suffer from this indigestion: one kid languishes, another has an allergy, the third is tormented by gases ... To the aid of a babe!
Mom, busy preparing for the holiday, was late with feeding. A hungry child begins to so actively and eagerly suck that the air is swallowed up, and now some of the milk comes out with air eructations ... Sometimes the nursing mother at the festive table ate too tightly or without special analysis: there are salads with mayonnaise, and fatty , and sharp, and butter. Some ingredients of food penetrate into the milk, and the crumb can pay for it with an allergic rash, cramping pains in the abdomen, disruptions in the work of the intestine.
The process of digestion in the first year of life is just beginning. When the crumbs with milk of the mother of the undesirable impurities are overeating or getting into the stomach, the digestive enzymes do not cope with the load, and the products of incomplete splitting of food accumulate in the intestine. They are subjected to fermentation processes, increasing gas formation. Gases stretch the wall of the bowel, causing pain and stool retention. How to help the baby with colic?
You can put it on your stomach, even better - do a light tummy massage: from the right groin area up, then along the hypochondrium and down to the left groin. If the child's anxiety does not disappear, he refuses to eat, vomiting and loose stools arise, the temperature rises - hurry to the doctor.
Temptations grow
Older children have other problems. Digestion in them works more reliably and more efficiently, but the holiday disorders in nutrition are more serious. Overeating and unwanted impurities (preservatives) contained in sausages, ham, smoked products, mayonnaise, canned food, fall directly into the baby's stomach. They overload it, stretch it, irritate it. Gastric juice can not cope with this overload, and the food gruel passes into the 12-colon is not sufficiently processed. Relay overload takes the small intestine. Harmful impurities and excess fat in food strain the pancreas, liver and biliary system. All the cells in the body suffer from reoxidation. Help your baby with colic and bloating, give him a safe medicine or, at the very least, call the doctor.
A body that is strong by nature will withstand the feeling of heaviness in the stomach or in the stomach. All this will pass, if after the feast give the child a little "unload".
The main thing is not to eat up the leftovers from the festive table: pies, cake, jellied fish and dressed salads. Even if you exclude the danger of food poisoning, still stale products undergo serious changes: they lose vitamins and useful biologically active substances, they simply "wind up", partially decompose into undesirable components.The fats of airborne products are oxidized, sedimented (covered in a foggy yellow coating) and then burned and stale dishes are also undesirable.If you remove the yellow coating from the oil and fry it, harmful substances, products of sedimentation, will not go anywhere and will bring their own danger the first contribution to the toxicity of the prepared dishes. Especially affected the liver and pancreas. The body still somehow can "forgive" us once overeating and the consumption of unhealthy foods. Repeated violation will disable it for real. The child the next day can generally refuse to eat. Do not insist that the baby must have breakfasted.
You should help your baby with colic and bloating. Offer him tea with two mint leaves or a lemon. Let the bitter drink in full: the products of metabolism dissolve in water and are quickly withdrawn. You can give homemade croutons to tea.
During the day, it is very useful to drink sour milk drinks (acidophilus, bifidumbacterin, bioprostock, biokefir). They will improve the broken intestinal microflora.
Cranberry juice, a decoction of dry hips, fresh apple juice, as it were, will wash the body, clean it.
Salad from raw vegetables, a dessert of fruits and berries, dressed with yogurt, baked apples with raisins, oatmeal with dried apricots will successfully cope with the over-oxidation of the body.
For dinner, offer the baby a vegetarian vegetable soup made from frozen spinach or a fruit soup with dried apricots. The second one is useful for lettish broccoli under a dairy sauce. These dishes will enrich the growing children's body with valuable vitamins and minerals.
Disease "younger"
Such diseases of the digestive system, like gastritis and gastroduodenitis, are more and more common in infants.
Sometimes they are diagnosed not immediately, but at school age. The reason - a later request for help and an incomplete examination on the first appeal.
According to statistics, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract in children have two age peaks: 5-6 and 9-12 years, with a maximum of 6 years. Causes - violations of diet: uneven intervals between meals, abundant food at night, eating dry. On holidays it is more likely that the child will eat something not in age: sharp, salty, fatty and fried dishes, marinades and mayonnaise - all accompanied by carbonated drinks. First of all, the swallowed food gets into the stomach. Too hot food damages the inside of the stomach. Cold - causes a narrowing of the blood vessels of the mucosa and a violation of its blood supply, and in addition contributes too fast evacuation of insufficiently processed food into the 12-colon. After the holiday, there are more cases of acute appendicitis and intestinal obstruction. Do not delay with the doctor's call to help in time.
Tasty and fun
Can all these complications be avoided? It is enough on holidays not to reduce attention to children, to feed them with healthy food, appropriate to their age. When we talk about our children's holidays, we rarely think about what was on the table, but in memory round-dancing, interesting games: "Brook", running in sacks and cutting off "suspicious" suspensions hung on a string.
Organize your kids games and dances, treat them to healthy fruit treats. For example, you can sandwich finished wafer cakes with honey, berries with sugar, decorate them with whipped cream and even melted chocolate. Taste for healthy food is also brought up.