What to do if infants and young children have bloating?

Many times, we all have physical conditions of one kind or another, and sometimes infants and young children have more problems. A common condition is flatulence in infants and young children. But for those parents who have little parenting experience, dealing with this situation may not be so familiar to them, so they don't know how to deal with it. So what should we do if infants and young children have bloating? Let’s take a look at the editor’s explanation below.

1. The main causes of flatulence include the following aspects:

1 The baby eats and sucks too quickly, causing air to be inhaled into the stomach, especially when the baby is hungry for too long before feeding milk.

2 The nipple hole of the bottle is not of appropriate size, causing air to enter the baby's body through the gap in the nipple.

3. The baby cries excessively.

4 The inhaled milk or other food is fermented in the digestive tract by intestinal bacteria and other digestive enzymes, producing a large amount of gas.

2. How to prevent flatulence

1 Try not to let your baby cry. It is easy for babies to get bloated when they cry. In this situation, parents should give more comfort or hug him to avoid worsening of bloating by adjusting his emotions.

2 Don’t let your baby be hungry for too long before feeding. If your baby is hungry for too long, he will suck too quickly and swallow a lot of air. Therefore, you should feed your baby on time and encourage your baby to pass gas properly after feeding.

3 Massage your baby’s abdomen more often, which will help gastrointestinal motility and gas discharge, thereby improving digestion and absorption.

4 When feeding, be careful to ensure that the milk fills the front end of the bottle nozzle and there is no slope to prevent the baby from inhaling air.

5 Temporarily stop eating foods that easily ferment and produce gas in the digestive tract, such as sweet potatoes, apples, melons, etc.

Through the above content, we have learned some methods to deal with bloating in infants and young children. As for whether flatulence is a disease and whether it requires treatment, in principle the judgment should be based on the baby's clinical symptoms. If the baby can eat, defecate, does not vomit, has a soft belly, is active, passes gas normally, and gains weight normally, then this type of abdominal distension is mostly functional abdominal distension and does not require special treatment.