What should I do if my newborn baby has indigestion?

Indigestion in newborn babies causes great trouble to the baby's physical development and makes many mothers particularly worried. Therefore, we recommend that everyone should have a certain understanding of the treatment methods for baby indigestion. When we encounter indigestion in babies, we recommend that everyone should use sugar and salt water or the mother should promote the baby's digestion by eating some low-fat foods.

Use homemade sugar and salt water for rehydration, i.e. add 1.75 grams of refined salt and 10 grams of white sugar to 5000 ml of warm boiled water, 1.75 grams of refined salt is equivalent to half of the beer bottle cap, 10 grams of white sugar is equivalent to 2 teaspoons; use homemade rice soup and salt liquid for rehydration, i.e. add 1.75 grams of refined salt to 500 ml of warm boiled water; use ORS (oral rehydration salt) prescribed by the doctor for rehydration, ORS rehydration salt is a prepared dry powder, just mix it into liquid according to the instructions when using.

Then, give 20-40 ml of fluid per kg of your baby's body weight during the first 4 hours. After that, take it orally at any time and drink as much as you can. Babies under 2 years old can be fed a small spoonful every 1-2 minutes, while older babies can drink from a small cup. If the baby vomits, wait 10 minutes before feeding him slowly again; once the baby's eyelids become swollen, it indicates that the fluid has been replenished excessively, and he should temporarily switch to drinking boiled water or breast milk.

Kind reminder: Do not add ORS rehydration salts to milk, rice soup, juice or other beverages, and after preparing it according to the instructions, do not add sugar, otherwise it will affect the rehydration effect.

Traditional treatment for diarrhea advocates that the child should fast for a period of time. However, this will hinder the body's nutritional supplementation and may easily lead to malnutrition. It is now recommended that babies with diarrhea should not be fasted, but they should follow the principle of small and frequent meals and eat at least 6 times a day. Breastfed babies continue to drink breast milk, but the mother's diet should be lower in fat, otherwise it will aggravate diarrhea; babies who are bottle-fed within 6 months can drink milk in normal amounts; babies over 6 months old who have already started weaning foods can eat some easily digestible foods, such as porridge, soft noodles, minced fish, a small amount of vegetable puree, fresh fruit juice or banana puree until 2 weeks after the diarrhea stops.

In order to let everyone better understand the treatment method of indigestion in newborn babies in life, we suggest that everyone should make correct use of the content introduced in the article. We can treat the baby's indigestion through brand breastfeeding methods, improve the composition of breast milk to improve the baby's digestive ability.