If something hurts the child, parents always worry. Especially, if can facilitate nothing a state. Belly-aches have different character, but it is always necessary to see a doctor.
If the child is healthy and cheerful, then any mom will be happy. But if something torments the kid, then and to mom it is bad. She worries and worries. The tummy hurts the child, and parents have to be on the alert. They have to know to what to be ready and how to render the first pre-medical aid.
The causes of belly-aches are various. And symptoms, are generally similar, but it is necessary to be able to distinguish in what area of a stomach there are pains. It is good if the child big and is able to show where hurts.
And what to do if the kid is not able to speak yet, absolutely small? Therefore it is necessary to understand independently. But it is impossible to tighten, and especially, to self-medicate. Such behavior can strongly do much harm to the child, pose serious threat for his health.
Belly-aches up to six months
Newborn babies have reasons most often in gripes. This results from the fact that digestion is not adjusted yet, and in a tummy intestinal gases which annoy the kid accumulate. He begins to roll out legs, to bend and unbend them, to cry strongly, to refuse to eat. What to do and how to help the kid in that case? To take the child a column of minutes 15, to massage a tummy circular quiet movements; to put a warm diaper on a stomach. In most cases it helps. Gripes cease to torment children after six months. The medicines containing in a basis fennel and semitikon are sometimes prescribed. To six-month age some kids have an impassability (the loop of intestines wrapped up another). And about one year there can be also an intestinal invagination (one gut enters an intestines gleam). In these cases the kid worries, cries, very pale, refuses to eat. There is vomiting later, and there is no chair. Sometimes these signs pass in itself. But if they repeated, it is necessary to see a doctor.
Pains after a year
At kids after a year the tummy can ache after the postponed infection (a tonsillitis, cold, measles, diphtheria, flu, scarlet fever). In this case there is an inflammation mucous in intestines. At the kid temperature rises, the loose stool, vomiting appears. It becomes neuroexcited. Dysentery can become one more reason. And here symptoms of pains in a tummy such: the tummy is blown up, hurts about a navel, there is vomiting, and the stool becomes loose, blood, mucous. The organism is quickly dehydrated, the child is hospitalized, infectiologists treat.
What should I do?
Parents have to take measures, proceeding from a condition of the kid. If only the tummy hurts and there are no other dangerous signs - a diarrhea, vomiting, temperature, - that it is still possible to observe. It is possible when the kid descends in a toilet, everything will pass. If pains develop often, then it is necessary to address the expert. Without its appointments it is impossible to give any drugs.