What to do if your five-month-old baby has food accumulation

Indigestion is a very common phenomenon in normal times. It can occur at any age, including five-month-old babies. However, since five-month-old babies are relatively young and their digestive functions have not yet fully developed, it is easy to cause indigestion in babies if they are not fed properly. After the baby has indigestion, you must actively treat the child, otherwise it will seriously affect the baby's health.

What should I do if my five-month-old baby has food accumulation?

A five-month-old baby is very small, and his daily diet basically consists of liquid food and dairy products. Generally speaking, if food accumulation occurs, the baby will have a poor appetite when eating, or the amount of milk will be greatly reduced. This is the most basic symptom of food accumulation. In addition, it is also necessary to observe whether the child's stool is soft. If the stool becomes very hard, food accumulation should be considered.

1. If the baby is about five months old and has not yet started to eat complementary foods, the probability of food accumulation is relatively small, because if the baby only eats breast milk or liquid foods such as milk powder, it is relatively easy to digest. Therefore, if food accumulation occurs due to breast milk, the abdomen should be massaged. The situation will improve in time after a few more massages.

2. If the child has started to eat complementary foods, especially in the beginning period of eating complementary foods, if food accumulation occurs, the child will have difficulty in defecation or the nature of defecation will suddenly change greatly. The stool is mainly soft at ordinary times, but after adding complementary foods, the stool suddenly becomes very dry. In fact, this is telling us that there is a problem with the child's digestion, and the re-examination should be adjusted in time.

3. In addition to observing the child's bowel movements, you can also judge whether the child has food accumulation by the taste of the child's mouth. If many children have food accumulation, an unpleasant sour smell will be emitted from the mouth. This is caused by a large amount of food residues accumulated in the stomach.

If a baby around five months old has indigestion, the condition is not particularly serious and there is no need to be too nervous. If you find the symptoms of indigestion in the early stage, you can take abdominal massage in time, which will speed up the child's digestion function and make his digestive ability stronger. If the child has these symptoms and is treated in time, the symptoms of indigestion will completely disappear within a week. If the child's symptoms of indigestion do not completely disappear, you can also change his eating habits or adjust his food intake.