In the first months of life the child very often has a hiccups. This quite normal phenomenon as at babies still very much we will excite the mechanism of regulation of reductions of a diaphragm.
Instruction
1. The newborn can have different hiccups reasons. If the kid wants to drink, or he froze, there can be a hiccups. Air which got into a stomach during feeding can cause hiccupping too. If the child overate, walls of his stomach stretch, it leads to reduction of a diaphragm and too can cause a hiccups.
2. In certain cases the hiccups at the newborn can arise at an emotional shake-up – it can be a sharp sound or bright light. The kid is frightened, and muscles of his diaphragm begin are reduced, causing a hiccups.
3. Hiccups attacks on average last minutes ten, but there is a hiccupping drags on for bigger time. Then the kid is not able to breathe normally, and his organism has deficiency of oxygen.
4. The long, often repeating hiccups sometimes signals about malfunctions in a children's organism. It can be pneumonia, diseases of a stomach, a liver, intestines, an injury of a spinal cord, a thorax, infectious diseases, helminths. Therefore? if the hiccups at the kid arises very often for two weeks, it is necessary to see a doctor.
5. How to help the kid at a hiccups? Try to wear him "column" – vertically pressing to themselves. Heat and change of situation in most cases help to remove a hiccups. If it did not help, let's the kid drink a little water, and again apply to yourself. The kid can drip under language to steam of drops of lemon juice or infusion of a camomile.
6. At a hiccups it is necessary to eliminate the factor provoking it. For example, if the child froze, he needs to be warmed if it has a thirst – to give to drink if he was frightened – to calm, distract, having tenderly talked to it.
7. It is impossible to overfeed the child not to provoke a hiccups. On artificial feeding it is important to choose a pacifier for children correctly. If you noticed that the hiccups at the newborn arises after noise, loud music and other external irritants, create a quiet situation for the kid and refuse guests in yours the house.