Hiccup both adults, and children, but if at the kid this phenomenon is observed constantly, it is necessary to find out the reason of a hiccups and to prevent repeated manifestations. It is important to understand why the child hiccups, it can sometimes be sign of a pathological condition of an organism.
The hiccups is the reflex of an organism arising because of reduction of muscles of a diaphragm. The unpleasant heavy respiratory traffics result. The diaphragm is reduced because of deformation of vagus nerve. If it is angry and squeezed, there is a pulsation which causes a hiccups. Parents begin to worry if the kid has a hiccups, but before taking any actions, it is necessary to find out why the child hiccups.
Why babies hiccup?
The hiccups at newborn children arises in several cases:
- Fright and nervous excitement. The impressionable children subject to stresses and strong experiences, often hiccup. They need to be calmed, carried away new classes. If attacks repeat often, it is better to ask for the help the neurologist.
- In this case the hiccups will pass only when parents warm the child and will give to drink warm milk, water or tea.
- Kids at chest feeding sometimes swallow air which provokes hiccups attacks. To save the child from this phenomenon, it needs to be lifted vertically and to wait a little that air came out.
- Long breaks between meals or a lack of drink. The kid needs to be fed and given to drink warm milk.
After a while after elimination of the reason the hiccups disappears. And not to allow repeated attacks, it is necessary to dress the child more warmly, to watch portions of food, to set the mode of feeding and to watch its psychological state.
The hiccups reasons at children are more senior than 1 year
Children can have an incidental and pathological hiccups.
The incidental hiccups meets at all children, it is not caused by serious problems with health and quickly passes.
If parents cannot define the reason why the child hiccups, and this state is observed within several hours, it is necessary to see a doctor. In this case it can be symptom of an infection or inflammatory process in an organism, violations in work of nervous system or stomach. The pediatrician needs to tell how often there come attacks and how many they last as the child feels and whether there are other signs of an illness. In the beginning the expert appoints inspection to presence at the child of helminths, often these parasites cause a long hiccups.
To help the kid to overcome a hiccups, it is necessary to liquidate its reason: to check whether the kid overate, froze, was frightened of something or long laughed. After that it is necessary to calm the child and to give him warm water. If the hiccups arises more often than 5 times in 2 weeks and more than 30 minutes last, then you should not tighten on a visit to the doctor.