What to do if your child has poor digestion

The stomach and intestines are part of the digestive system. With the changes in the environment, poor stomach and intestines have become a situation that many people will encounter. Poor stomach and intestines are a condition that many people will encounter, especially children. Poor stomach and intestines and indigestion often occur, which makes many parents and friends feel very worried. Poor gastrointestinal function will affect a child’s growth. So what should we do if a child has poor gastrointestinal digestion?

1. Feeding should be regular and quantitative. Let children develop good eating habits from an early age so that their internal organs can adapt better. Older children should be encouraged to develop the habit of feeding themselves.

2. Overcome picky eating and pay attention to nutritional comprehensiveness. The combination of meat and vegetables should be appropriate to overcome the bad habit of eating mainly snacks. Avoid strong tea, coffee, alcohol, spices, peppers, mustard and other strong irritating foods.

3. Pay attention to maintaining children's appetite. Because eating is most beneficial only when you have an appetite. To maintain children's good appetite, we must pay attention to the eating environment not being too noisy, and they must not eat while watching TV; be careful not to force them to eat or impose too strict dietary restrictions on them; do not eat candy before meals; avoid children being too tired or nervous when eating; the color, aroma and taste of the food must be attractive.

4. Pay attention to keeping your abdomen warm, avoid stimulating the gastrointestinal tract with cold, and try to reduce respiratory tract infections.

5. Pay close attention to keeping the digestive tract unobstructed and develop the habit of regular bowel movements.

6. Pay attention to hygiene, cultivate the habit of washing hands before meals, and make sure the food is clean and fresh. Eat more easily digestible foods, avoid fried and other difficult-to-digest foods, and do not eat while reading.

What should I do if my child has a bad stomach? Looking at the above expert advice, I hope it can provide a lot of help to all mothers. In our lives, many parents like to use drugs to treat gastrointestinal problems, but children have weak constitutions, so parents cannot use drugs blindly. If mothers can pay attention to the above points, the occurrence of indigestion in children will be significantly reduced.