Infant gases
Infants are exposed to many of the symptoms that the mother stands in front of them confused in the disposition, especially if this child is her first child, and the colic of the baby as well as the gases that accumulate in the stomach of things that are disturbing to the mother and her child, especially if the mother did not know why The occurrence of these gases, how to treat them and get rid of them.
Causes of gases in the baby
- Breast feeding: The baby draws a large amount of air through the bottle of feeding, which causes him severe pain.
- The nervous child, who breastfeeds from his mother’s breast quickly and vigorously, also swallows a lot of air at each feeding meal.
- Do not rehydrate the child after each feeding meal; to take the gases out of his or her abdomen.
- The presence of certain components of artificial milk that most infants can not easily digest, remaining in the intestine for a long time, causing a large amount of gases.
- The food eaten by the mother affects the milk you give to her child; eating sulfur-rich foods such as cabbage, broccoli, and chickpeas may affect the baby when breastfeeding; gases can occur to the baby because of his mother’s milk.
How to treat gases
- Give the child sufficient time to feed at each meal, so that the feeding meal takes half an hour for the baby to be able to breastfeed without swallowing the air while breastfeeding.
- Moving the baby’s abdomen with soft movements; so that it is easier to remove the gases from his stomach during pain, and to massage lightly on the baby’s abdomen and back; until the child relaxes and all the gases gathered in his stomach.
- Gently massage on the baby’s back after each feeding meal; because burping helps to release the accumulated air in the stomach, reduces the risk of colic and collects gases in the abdomen.
- Add a meal of soaked medicinal herbs that help to soften the gases between feeding meals such as: drenched anise, or chamomile.
- Give the child medicines that treat colic, and gases given to the child by drops of the mouth, the rate of two drops per kilogram of weight at the time of need, or the child can be given suppositions that help get rid of abdominal gases.
- Avoid eating the mother for foods that are possible to cause the child to gas, and also to eat the medicinal herbs in the event they have to eat those foods.
- Check with the doctor if the child does not respond to all the previous solutions, while his stomach remains swollen and the pain continues to be severe.