Newborns sometimes retch

Most of the time, dry heaving is related to the food that the human body eats. For example, newborns sometimes experience dry heaving, which is most likely due to feeding or the food not being digested in time. When parents feed their babies improperly, or when the baby itself has weak digestive function, it may cause dry heaving in newborns. Of course, it is not ruled out that it is due to disease, the most common of which is typhoid fever.

1. Improper feeding or eating

If a newborn baby is fed too much milk or eats too fast, the baby will not absorb and digest the food in time and will experience dry heaving. Babies who have already started eating complementary foods may experience nausea and vomiting because they are not used to the complementary foods or the complementary food particles are too large to swallow, or they are exposed to cold food, or they don’t like the taste of milk powder or rice noodles.

Some foods contain additives such as artificial colors, or some irritating substances that may irritate the baby's throat and cause discomfort, which may trigger the baby to dry heave. If your child eats meals normally but retches after eating dry puffed foods or something particularly sweet, it is likely that the retching is caused by food irritating the throat.

2. Poor digestive function

The reason for some babies' dry retching may be gastrointestinal discomfort and poor digestion. At the same time as dry retching, they may also have loss of appetite, diarrhea, abdominal distension, or frequent and particularly smelly farts. Taking digestive aids is often effective. Sometimes it is caused by inhaling air while feeding. burp the baby well after feeding, pay attention to the baby's diet, feed the baby light and easily digestible food, and eat small meals frequently.

3. Foreign matter

When babies are young, they lie flat most of the time and sleep. When babies catch a cold or feel uncomfortable, the mucus in their nasal cavity is likely to flow into their throat, causing dry heaves. When the indoor temperature is too dry or too cold, the baby's throat will be irritated by the cold air and dry retching may occur. Many babies will put their hands in their mouths. Babies who cannot speak yet may "tell" adults their discomfort in this way, and this discomfort may be a foreign body sensation.

4. Sickness

Some babies' dry retching is often accompanied by illness. If the baby has recently had symptoms such as a cold, fever, or cough, it may be caused by an illness, such as inflamed and enlarged tonsils, tracheitis, or pharyngitis. When the pharynx is stimulated, it will automatically close the nasopharynx and periphrasia passages, dilate the esophagus, and prevent vomit from entering the trachea or nasal cavity, causing vomiting or dry heaving-like reactions. If a child frequently retches, he should go to the hospital to check whether he has pharyngitis. Sometimes a low fever may be related to pharyngitis, so timely treatment is required. For some babies, the cardia relaxes too much, which causes gastric juice to reflux from the stomach to the esophagus, causing the baby to retch. In severe cases, a doctor's examination and treatment is required.

5. Baby is dehydrated

Generally speaking, breastfed babies do not lack water in the first 6 months. But it does not necessarily mean that the baby does not need to drink water. A dry throat may cause the baby to retch, so after feeding the baby, you can give the baby some warm water to moisten the throat.