What to do if your child has a stomachache

Many children will experience stomach pain symptoms. Parents should pay attention to their children’s symptoms. First, they should find out the cause of their children’s stomach pain so that they can prescribe the right medicine for the disease. If your child has unbearable abdominal pain, do not blindly give him painkillers. If the condition is serious, he needs to be sent to the hospital for examination and appropriate medicine. Some children have poor sensitivity to pain, so parents should pay attention to their children's symptoms.

Method 1: Abdominal pain caused by cold. Many children often experience abdominal pain in the summer, and the attacks are frequent, but there is always no problem when they go to the hospital for examination. In fact, this kind of stomach pain is not necessarily caused by certain diseases. If the child is sensitive to heat and likes to sleep naked in the summer or often exposes his belly, these reasons may cause stomach pain. Children who often sleep naked in the summer have a thin abdominal wall around their navel and their rectus abdominis muscles are in a split state. Sleeping without a blanket will stimulate the smooth muscles of the stomach and intestines to be stimulated by the cold, causing strong contractions and spasmodic abdominal pain. Moreover, a cold abdomen will accelerate intestinal motility and increase the frequency of bowel movements, but without mucus, pus or blood, and stool tests will also be normal. Therefore, when it comes to the question of what to do if a child has a stomachache, experts point out that we must first prevent the child's abdomen from catching a cold, and make sure to wrap the child's abdomen well when the child is sleeping, even in the hot summer. If it is a baby, you must take extra measures to keep the abdomen warm. When taking the baby outdoors or basking in the sun, you must also pay attention to protecting the abdomen.

Method 2: Gastrointestinal growing pains. Some children have special abdominal pains, which often occur before or after going to bed at night. The pain is relatively mild, but they cannot accurately point out where it hurts when asked. After a period of pain, the pain will gradually improve until it disappears. Experts pointed out that this is actually gastrointestinal growth.

Method three: When a child has a stomachache, you can apply hot compress to the stomach, which can dispel the cold, dredge the meridians, and relieve stomach pain.

The specific method is: use a hot towel to apply heat to the painful area, or put hot salt in a cloth bag and iron the painful area. After 5-10 minutes, replace the hot towel. When a child has a stomachache, you can massage the area around the stomach, which is beneficial to improve local blood circulation, dredge the meridians, and effectively relieve stomachache. The specific method is: use your fingertips to massage the area around your belly button, first clockwise, then counterclockwise, for about 10 minutes.