For children a hiccups – quite frequent phenomenon. It can begin after vomiting, during the freezing or haste in food, a severe stress or crying. It is possible to save the child from a hiccups in different ways. If one does not help, try another.
It is required to you
- - warm blanket or clothes;
- - spoon, a small bottle or a mug with water;
- - piece of dry bread;
- - lemon zest;
- - sugar spoon;
- - ice cream or fruit ice;
- - compress or ice.
Instruction
1. To save from the baby's hiccups, try to define the reason. If he froze, warm him. Let's it drink – milk or water, and some children are helped by drink from a spoon, to others – from a small bottle, and the third – only a mother's breast. Put the child on a tummy and stroke its back.
2. After feeding take the kid vertically, having pressed to a breast. If he does not sleep, ask somebody to distract him a toy that the kid stretched. You can tickle a little it – the diaphragm will relax and will cease to be reduced.
3. To the kid is more senior suggest to chew a piece of dry bread, lemon zest or to eat a small spoon of sugar. You can also give a little frozen or fruit ice.
4. Apply to a throat something cold, a compress or ice. You do not hold long that the child did not catch a cold. If did not help at once, try other way.
5. Suggest the kid to link hands in a lock, to lift over the head and to stretch all over. It is good if at the same time he takes a fast and deep breath, replacing it a slow exhalation. Such way well helps if the hiccups is caused by nervousness or a fright.
6. Close to the child ears and let's drink waters. The child is more senior, the it is more than opportunities to make this way more effective – for example, to hold the breath during drink. Very well can help if the child bends and in this situation will drink waters (this way demands a certain skill as to drink very inconveniently).
7. Ask the child to make a deep breath and then to try "to push" air to the region of a stomach. If the kid manages thus "to breathe a stomach", he almost for certain will get rid of a hiccups.
8. If the hiccups repeats too often, address the neurologist - he will define the reason and will appoint necessary treatment. However for some children the hiccups several times a day is norm and over time itself passes.