babies
The first months of the child’s life are very accurate and difficult especially for the new mother. The child suffers from various problems that he can only express with crying and discomfort, which calls on the mother to ask about the reasons for the child’s continuous crying. To eat, or change the preservation, always go to make sure that there are no gases in the baby’s belly.
Gases in the baby’s stomach cause pain, discomfort, inability to sleep, or eating, so how can the mother treat the gases that may accumulate in her baby’s belly? This is what we will give in our article.
Gases in infants
There are a number of reasons why gases may accumulate in the baby’s belly, such as cold, or eating foods that cause gas, such as cabbage or white beans, or if it is still too small and does not eat, the mother may be the one who took the foods that cause the gases, With milk, or the air may reach the child’s intestine by swallowing large amounts of air during breastfeeding, crying or breathing.
Methods of treatment of gases in infants
- It is best to breastfeed the child if he is breastfeeding from the bottle and help him to fully fill the nipple with milk so that the air does not enter. After completing the feeding, it is recommended to sit on the child’s back or gently wipe down the top to get rid of gas in the abdomen.
- Massage the baby with a little warm oil each day. Massage begins from the bottom up with a slight pressure on the abdominal area, or a half-circle movement from left to right in the shape of a crescent, to help the gases and food move in the intestines. The process down, not at the moment feeling the child’s discomfort.
- Using the movement of the bike in moving the two legs, the child can be placed on the back, and then move the mother’s legs of the baby like the movement of the bike.
- Using a warm towel after wrapping it with a piece of cloth and placing it on the baby’s belly, the warmth of the abdominal area helps to expand the blood vessels and thus move blood circulation better.
- Give the child – if it is large enough – some herbs to reduce the gases such as drenched aniseed, or dipped Albabonh, or anise with fennel, or can be taken by the mother to benefit the child with milk.
- In some severe cases, medical treatments can be brought from the pharmacy to help the child to take out the gases, but it is not recommended to multiply them because they cause diarrhea in the bowel movement later on.