Every second child on the first month of life has problems with digestive system. Such problems in the form of gripes are familiar to all mothers. In order that gripes at the child did not become a nightmare for all family, it is necessary to perform prevention. What does it consist in?
Prevention of gripes
When feeding by a breast it is important to watch food, to carefully form a diet. As a rule, it is enough to reduce or exclude the use of the hot dishes containing caffeine, chocolate, cow's milk, especially fat and onions. Not seldom increased gas generation appears at the child after mom gorges on sweets or smoked products. They surely should be excluded from a diet.
When the kid on artificial feeding, it is necessary to select very carefully for it mix. It is better to do it together with the pediatrician individually. Even the emotional state affects health of the child therefore it is very important that each feeding took place in the quiet situation habitual and familiar for it.
First aid at gripes
The first that well helps at gripes - it is light massage. It is necessary to do it after palms are warmed. It is necessary to iron a tummy only clockwise. At the increased gas generation it is necessary to put the kid on a back and to draw in serially legs. Also the warm diaper which is put to a tummy will help to lower painful feelings.
If it is regular to put the child on a tummy, it will help not only to train belly muscles, but also to save it subsequently from gripes. Many experts recommend to use an exhaust tube for decrease in gas generation and painful feelings. A hand it is necessary to wash carefully, and to grease a tip with vaseline then to enter it on distance no more than 3 cm. After gases depart, it is necessary to wash the child.
Medicines in fight against gripes
Concerning use of medicines for elimination of unpleasant feelings it is better to have a talk with the expert, the local pediatrician. In their market enough is offered today. It and dill water – plantex, and the baby-kalm, both espumizan, and infakol.
The doctor will help not only to pick up suitable means, but also will establish a necessary dosage. The address to the expert is necessary also for dl of precisely to establish: the crying reason in gripes, but not in something another. Sometimes happens that the kid, being on artificial feeding, suffers from locks, then the individual course of treatment, the choice of other mix is necessary. Here gripes medicine will be useless.