How can I relieve my child's indigestion? What to do if your child has indigestion?

Indigestion is a very common symptom, not only adults are prone to indigestion, children also often appear, because children's stomach is more fragile, so children are prone to some symptoms of physical discomfort after eating food that is not easy to digest, so how to relieve children's indigestion?What to do if your child has indigestion?

1. It is easy to get seriously ill after a long time

Although dyspepsia is a common disease in infants and young children, if parents do not pay attention to it and delay it, it is likely to lead to serious consequences for too long.

(1) It is easy to cause children to sweat

Sweating has a lot to do with digestion, and many babies will have a perspiration system disorder due to long-term improper diet, resulting in frequent sweating and colds.

(2) Sleep and grind your teeth

There are many causes of teeth grinding, such as children changing teeth, oral inflammation, etc., in fact, indigestion is also a factor.

(3) It is easy to have allergies

Some babies have a bad stomach when they have eaten food that they are not allergic to, but now they have a strange phenomenon of allergies.

(4) Affect the development of the body and brain

Indigestion causes children to lose appetite and are prone to picky eating, which in turn affects the child's absorption of nutrients. Children are in the most vigorous period of physical development and brain development, this stage is also a critical period to determine the level of intelligence, if the digestive function is not improved in time, affecting the absorption of nutrients, it is bound to affect the development of the body and brain, so as to regret life.

(5) The child's body is not caloric enough

Since food is difficult to digest, it is difficult to generate heat to maintain a constant temperature inside the body.

(6) Easy to get sick and slow to react

A child's long-term gastrointestinal malaise will lead to weakness, nutrients cannot keep up with the body's needs, and the child will easily catch a cold and lose concentration.

2. It means that the child may have indigestion

As long as the child is uncomfortable, there will be abnormal manifestations, especially if the child has indigestion, the symptoms are more obvious. Mothers can find that their children don't want to eat and will spit up milk at the same time. So, what are the symptoms of indigestion in specific children?

Symptom 1: Babies leak milk, and older children often vomit. It is usually not severe, and the vomit has a sour taste.

Symptom 2: loss of appetite, abdominal distention, bowel sounds. You don't even need a stethoscope to hear the "grunting" of your stomach.

Symptom 3: Bad breath. The sides of the child's nose are blue, the tongue coating is white and thick, and he can smell the sour and rancid taste of the exhaled breath.

Symptom 4: foul-smelling stool. When accompanied by a small amount of indigestible food residues, although it is not diluted, there are precursors of food leakage.

Symptom 5: Refusal to eat. Your baby is reluctant to feed, or has a significantly reduced amount of feeding.When a child occasionally has a loss of appetite, refusal to eat or a meal that is not sweet, it cannot be regarded as indigestion.

Symptom 6: Diarrhea and vomiting are often accompanied by abdominal pain. Young babies may cry and be restless, while older children may complain of abdominal pain. If the abdominal pain is not severe, it can be relieved on its own.

Symptom 7: Constipation. The child has difficulty defecating and has hard, dry stools; Or bowel movements are too long and loose.

Symptom 8: Restless nights. Irritability, hot palms, kicking the quilt, sweating a lot when you first fall asleep, mostly caused by excessive eating and drinking, and stagnation of the stomach, which is also what we often say "stomach disharmony makes the night restless".

3. What causes it?

(1) Improper diet

1. Eating too fast, swallowing before chewing properly. Eating too quickly can lead to inadequate chewing, causing problems in the digestive system.

2. Excessive eating. Eating too much is beyond the scope of the digestive system, and it is easy to cause a large amount of food to be retained.

3. Irregular diet. Frequent overeating is very harmful to the stomach and intestines, such as not eating on time, often eating supper, etc.

4. Too much preference for sweets, spicy, beer, fried, blunt and other irritating foods.

5. Drinking too much soup while eating, which dilutes the liquid in the stomach and is not conducive to food digestion.

6. Eating contaminated food can easily cause stomach diseases, which is not conducive to the absorption of food by the human body.

7. The food you eat is too miscellaneous. Some foods cannot be eaten at the same time, and if eaten by mistake, it will cause a series of discomforts.

(2) Cause of disease

1. Gastrointestinal diseases caused by bacterial and viral infections, such as some common pediatric diarrhea.

2. Hepatobiliary diseases, especially for younger children, parents must pay attention to them and go to the hospital for diagnosis as soon as possible.

3. Organic diseases, some children may have problems with poor development of organs in the digestive and other systems, and parents also need to go to the hospital for investigation and diagnosis as soon as possible.

(3) Other factors

1. The temperature change in the body affects the normal operation of some enzymes in the body.

2. The quilt is not covered well at night, etc., causing the baby's stomach to be cold.

3. There is no moderation in the use of antibiotics.

4. Baby's psychological and emotional changes.

4. The principle of diet for children's indigestion

1. Feeding should be regular and quantitative. Let the baby develop a good habit of eating regularly from an early age, with different dietary arrangements, so that the baby's gastrointestinal adaptability is better.

2. Pay attention to maintaining your baby's appetite. To maintain the baby's good appetite, we must pay attention to the eating environment can not be too noisy, not to eat while watching TV, do not force to eat or restrict the baby's diet too strictly, do not give the baby candy before meals, and finally prepare food for the baby to have a certain attractiveness.

3. Boil water with dried hawthorn slices to drink. Hawthorn contains a lot of vitamin C and acids, which can promote the secretion of gastric juice and increase enzymes in the stomach, thereby aiding digestion. You can add some sugar appropriately. This is generally more greasy to eat during the Spring Festival, and we often use it to boil water to drink, which has the effect of strengthening the spleen and guiding stagnation, and helping the stomach to eat and invigorate qi.