How to treat poor gastrointestinal absorption in babies?

Poor gastrointestinal absorption will reduce the baby's disease resistance and ability to absorb nutrients, leading to weight loss, frailty, slow growth, etc. Poor absorption ability will seriously endanger the healthy growth of the baby. For babies with poor gastrointestinal absorption, you can let them drink more millet porridge, because millet has the effect of strengthening the stomach and digesting food, and can also prevent nausea and vomiting. Therefore, giving your baby a bowl of millet porridge every day can nourish the stomach. In terms of diet, the baby’s meals should be hot, and he should not eat raw or cold food. He should try to drink hot water. Food should be fresh, clean and easy to digest.

If the baby's stool has a strong odor, it indicates protein indigestion. At this time, you should reduce the amount of milk appropriately or dilute the milk. Pay attention to scientific feeding, feed on time and in the right amount, especially avoid overfeeding.

If there is a lot of foam in the stool, it means that carbohydrates are not digested properly, and you must reduce or even stop feeding starchy foods.

If the stool looks creamy, it indicates fat malabsorption and the intake of fatty foods should be reduced.

These symptoms are caused by improper feeding or weather changes and are non-infectious factors. The other type is caused by infectious factors.

As long as parents have patience and confidence, they can help their baby regulate his stomach and intestines. There are many ways to regulate the stomach and intestines with food. For example, adding hawthorn and brown sugar to porridge can stimulate the appetite and help digestion, but it cannot be eaten on an empty stomach. There are also yam, carrot, pumpkin, etc., which can be cooked into porridge with rice for babies to drink. It is not only nutritious but also can strengthen the stomach.