The hiccups can appear not only at adults, but also at newborn children. Often it regularly appears after feeding, but its emergence at the kid of many parents frightens in spite of the fact that it also does not give to the child any special inconvenience.
Instruction
1. The hiccups is a reflex phenomenon which can proceed of a minute till several o'clock.
2. Are the most common causes of emergence of a hiccups in the newborn: overeating and swallowing air at the wrong capture of a nipple of a breast, because of a big opening of a pacifier, overcooling, an abdominal distension or a nervous shake-up.
3. For prevention of a hiccups at the newborn you feed the kid only when he really got hungry, it is quiet and not excited. During feeding you watch closely the child. If he too quickly and actively drinks, discharge him for some time of a breast, let's have a rest, take "column" that air which got into a stomach came out. If the kid - "bottle-fed baby", try to change to nipple on a small bottle more often.
4. If the hiccups at the newborn appears in case of overcooling, warm it, press to yourself and let's drink warm water. If necessary buy it in a warm bath or feed.
5. If you notice that the hiccups at the kid appears during a stress, try to protect the baby from an emotional shake-up (loud music, hard words, bright light and strangers).
6. Quickly to stop a hiccups at the newborn child, it is possible to give him couple of drinks of warm water or weak infusion of a camomile.
7. It is impossible to disregard a persistent long hiccups at the newborn as it can be sign of damage of a brain, various diseases of a stomach, lungs, a liver, injuries of a spinal cord or thorax. If the hiccups at the child appears regularly and more than 2 weeks proceed, it is necessary to show him to the expert surely.
8. If through simple councils you manage to remove without effort hiccups attacks at the newborn, your child cheerful, healthy and constantly smiles, then you have no reasons for concern.