How to treat indigestion in children?

Faced with a common disease like indigestion in children, we want to treat it in life. We suggest that mothers should know the causes of indigestion so that you can prevent the recurrence of the disease. For children's indigestion symptoms, we recommend that patients first adjust their children's diet, let them eat easily digestible and light foods, and exercise appropriately.

1. During the infant stage from 6 months to 1 year old, the digestive organs are not yet fully developed and the digestive adaptability is poor. There are many reasons for indigestion caused by improper diet and feeding. For example, excessive feeding due to irregular feeding schedules, unreasonable diet combinations with too high milk concentration or sudden changes in diet, inability to adapt to the addition of too many complementary foods, and too high nutritional value of food during the weaning period will all make the infant's digestive organs unable to adapt, resulting in indigestion and abnormal stools. The symptoms are large amount, lots of foam, porridge-like, egg-drop-like, watery, and accompanied by a special sour and smelly odor. For these symptoms of indigestion, just adjust the amount of milk, type, supplementary food, etc.

2. If children over 1 year old have large amounts of stool, foamy stool, rough stool, or stool containing food residues or undigested food, it is mostly due to eating too much or too high sugar content in the food. For such children, you need to control their food intake or reduce the sugar content in their food. Feeding them some easily digestible food such as rice soup, lotus root powder paste, etc. can help them return to normal.

3. For children over 1 year old, if their stools are yellow-brown, watery or mixed with undigested milk curds, and have a pungent smell of rotten eggs, it means that they have difficulty digesting and absorbing protein foods. For such infants and young children, the amount of protein in complementary foods should be reduced. Breastfed children can drink more water before feeding to reduce the protein concentration in the milk.

4. If children over 1 year old have a lot of paste-like stools, which are oily in appearance and contain a lot of milk curds and fat droplets, and have a strong odor, it indicates fat indigestion. You should reduce the amount of food containing more fat in time. (Fat-rich foods: animal fats, fatty meat, egg yolks, milk and milk fat, vegetable oils, soybeans, peanuts, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, etc.)

This article introduces us in detail to the treatment methods for children's indigestion. I hope mothers can save it. It will be helpful for you to treat children's indigestion. If we want to prevent children from suffering from indigestion, we need to pay more attention to their diet and try not to let them eat too much greasy and fried food.