Tips for treating bloating in children

Children at this stage have relatively poor immunity and find it difficult to resist the invasion of various bacteria and fungi. Although parents at home take good care of their children every day, there are still some details in life that cannot be avoided. Various problems can easily arise if you are not careful. What is the cause of bloating in children? What should I do? This will make parents very anxious, but don’t worry, there are some little tricks to deal with children’s bloating. I will teach you a few tips below.

Tips to solve children's bloating:

1. Drink more warm water

Drinking warm water can help reduce the burden on the stomach, intestines, liver and kidneys. It can not only relieve constipation, reduce the incidence of cerebral thrombosis and myocardial infarction, but also help you expel gas.

2. Abdominal massage

Massage your baby's abdomen clockwise one hour after a meal to promote your baby's intestinal motility. Do this several times a day. At the same time, be gentle with your technique.

3. Home Care

It is also helpful to use wind-repellent oil on the abdomen and cover it with a warm towel. These help gastrointestinal motility and gas discharge to improve digestion and absorption function.

4. Diet therapy

Eat some digestive foods.

When your baby has a bloated stomach, you can adjust the diet by giving your baby some digestive foods or foods that are easy to digest, and try to eat small meals frequently until the symptoms of bloating disappear. In addition, avoid spicy foods. Sour foods such as hawthorn slices can aid digestion, and foods that strengthen the spleen and stomach include coix seed, red dates, yam, pumpkin, and potatoes.

5. Dietary taboos

Eat less foods that easily produce gas. For example, bean products contain sugars that cannot be digested and absorbed by enzymes in the gastrointestinal tract, but are easily fermented by colon bacteria. The lactose in milk cannot be completely absorbed, so you should eat less soybeans, red beans, sweet potatoes, chestnuts, peanuts, dairy products, beer, soda and other foods.

6. Eat a balanced diet

In daily life, parents need to reasonably match the food for their children, make it diverse, avoid the food being too monotonous, and the food should be easy to digest, so as to effectively prevent the baby's bloating symptoms.

8. Develop good eating habits

Parents must prevent their babies from developing bad eating habits. If the baby has the habit of overeating, parents must help correct it. When encountering baby's favorite or new dishes, parents can consider preparing limited quantities. This can prevent the baby from overeating and also stimulate the baby's taste to prevent him from being picky or anorexic.

Ways to prevent bloating:

Eat less food that is difficult to digest

Breastfeeding mothers should avoid eating foods that may cause gas in their babies, such as beans, corn, sweet potatoes, cauliflower and spicy foods. Babies who have already started eating complementary foods should eat less foods that are difficult to digest and can cause bloating.

Note:

Do not eat raw, cold, gas-producing, and indigestible foods

It is important to understand whether the bloating is caused by spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, food accumulation, or blood deficiency and cold and heat. You cannot just regulate the qi when you see the bloating. You must prescribe the right medicine to achieve good results.