How to treat intestinal spasms in children

Intestinal spasm is a relatively serious disease, but not that serious. The existence of intestinal spasm is mainly for the sake of safety. The intestines will experience cramp-like pain just like calf cramps when swimming. This pain is quite severe, mainly below the two ribs and around the navel. Many children often sweat and roll around, and even cry and become restless because of intestinal spasm, which is quite harmful.

What is intestinal spasm?

As the name suggests, it is a "cramp" in the intestines, just like a calf cramp when swimming, causing temporary severe pain. The pain of intestinal spasm is generally not severe, and mostly occurs in the navel or under the ribs; there are also some cases of severe pain, with children crying and being restless, sweating and rolling around, but it does not last long, mostly a few minutes to tens of minutes, and then everything is normal and the child can talk, laugh, eat and play. What is "intestinal spasm"? As the name suggests,

What causes intestinal spasms? Just like cramps in swimming, blood vessels contract under the stimulation of cold, and insufficient blood supply causes intestinal wall muscle spasms. Therefore, eating a lot of cold food can cause intestinal cramps. People can adapt to the cold, but some people cannot and show an overreaction, which is the so-called "allergy". Allergic reactions take many forms, the most common of which are swelling and itching. Spasms are one type of allergic reaction. Therefore, most people do not get cramps when exposed to cold, only a few do. And these few people no longer get cramps after exercise, which means they have "adapted" or "desensitized."

Allergic bowel cramps can have many causes. For example, some people get stomachaches when they eat eggs, some people get stomachaches when they drink milk, and not wearing clothes in the summer to keep cool or catching a cold can also cause abdominal pain. Children need to gradually adapt to the complex environment in the world, so they are more likely to have allergic reactions. According to hospital statistics, primary school students are most likely to suffer from intestinal cramps, which will get better as they grow older. It is impossible to try to avoid it.

So, should you still eat cold food if you are afraid of stomachache? In fact, whether you have abdominal pain or not, as long as you do not eat more cold food than the normal amount for ordinary people, especially the normal amount for children, it will not cause abdominal pain once you get used to it.

Abdominal pain due to insufficient dressing is also a matter of habit. In rural areas in the north, people are accustomed to wearing a bellyband, which is actually just a small piece of cloth. They will have abdominal pain if they take it off. Rural children wear open-crotch pants in winter because they are afraid of cold feet but not buttocks. Urban children wear shorts and short skirts without fear of cold legs. These are all habits. If you are not used to them, they will cause intestinal cramps and abdominal pain. If other reasons are found to be causing intestinal spasms, the method is to adopt small amounts of multiple contacts and slowly adapt. As for the very few people who are still allergic, they have no choice but to avoid it for life or go to the hospital for desensitization treatment.