Gripes are very painful for the baby. Because of a spasm in intestines gases accumulate and there is quite severe pain. Long and strained crying exhausts the child and morally torments mom. Gripes happen even at absolutely healthy children. It is necessary to take all measures of prevention and treatment of gripes for good health of the baby.
If the kid shows strong concern and strainedly shouts, for an exception of more dangerous problems it is necessary to show it to the pediatrician. In the absence of other pathology it is necessary to start treatment of gripes at the baby. Except shrill shout symptoms of gripes are: the lock, lack of gases pressed to a leg stomach. After an otkhozhdeniye of gases the child calms down for some time.
The reasons of appearance of gripes can be a little. At the wrong applying to a breast together with mother's milk the kid swallows air which becomes the reason of development of gripes subsequently. Air can get into a stomach of the child if mom holds a small bottle not at an angle, and is horizontal. Many mothers at the slightest shout of the kid try to give it a breast. It is fraught with overeating and a congestion of gases that besides leads to appearance of gripes. A considerable role is played by a diet of the nursing mother.
Prevention of developing of gripes
Gripes it is better to warn that it was not necessary to be engaged in treatment. Before the next feeding it is good to spread the kid a tummy down on a plain surface. It will promote not only an otkhozhdeniye of gases, but also strengthening of muscles of a stomach. After feeding it is necessary to take the baby in vertical position and to wait for an eructation.
During the day the child can give dill water. In pharmacies and shops, special teas for children are on sale. They contain the fennel helping to prevent a congestion of gases in intestines of the kid. If the child on breastfeeding, mom has to exclude some products from food: cabbage, bean, carbonated drinks, onions, coffee, black bread, etc. Mom can also drink teas with fennel, then gripes can not be.
Treatment
If it was not succeeded to prevent appearance of gripes, then it is necessary to treat them. The diaper ironed by the iron needs to be put on a stomach of the kid. It has to be comfortable temperature, a little warm. Mom can put the child on the stomach: it will accelerate an otkhozhdeniye of gases and will calm the child. It is possible to make accurately massage of a stomach clockwise, easy movements, and then exercise: to serially bend and unbend legs. The heat bath in combination with massage of a tummy will allow the child to relax. Before beginning to give to the kid carminative drugs (Espumizan, Bobotik, etc.) it is worth consulting the local pediatrician. The first cause of gripes at children bottle-fed babies is a dairy mix. It is quite possible that it does not suit the child at all. It is worth replacing mix with another. If nothing helps, and gripes only amplify, it is possible to put an exhaust tube. The tip of a tube has to be oiled vegetable or children's cream. It is possible to enter it on only 1.5 cm, is not deeper at all. Gases will soon depart and for certain the chair will appear. Rubber pear of the smallest size will also be suitable for this purpose. From it it is necessary to cut off a bottom, then to boil and use as an exhaust tube.