How to treat children’s indigestion and nausea?

Indigestion and nausea often occur in our daily lives. Various dietary factors, psychological pressure and so on can lead to indigestion, making it impossible for children to absorb nutrients in food and making them in poor health. How can we regulate children's indigestion and nausea? The editor is here to give you some answers.

(I) Three principles for correcting indigestion:

1. Correcting eating behavior is fundamental.

Eating is an eating behavior. Parents need to demonstrate and guide their children correctly during the eating process so that their children can develop correct eating habits and behaviors from an early age.

2. Eat at regular times and in regular amounts, and eat less snacks.

It is very important to cultivate the habit of eating at regular times and in regular amounts in children. If you give children too many snacks, such as candy and biscuits, and their stomachs are not empty, they will not feel hungry at normal meal times. Parents can make their children aware that it is time to eat by using fixed times, fixed places, specific tableware and words. This is to give children the awareness of eating through conditioned reflex. When the steaming hot food is placed on the table, he will realize that "it's time to eat." Secondly, don’t let your children develop the bad habit of snacking.

3. Concentrate on eating and cultivate children’s interest in eating.

Eating requires concentration, and parents must help their children develop the habit of concentrating on eating. If a child does not like to eat, parents should cultivate the child's interest in eating. When eating, you can let the children participate by themselves, holding the rice bowl, taking the small spoon, and choosing the food they like. This way, the children not only learn how to eat, but also develop an interest in eating. Create a pleasant atmosphere for dining. When some children cannot eat or do not want to eat, their parents will fight with them or even insult and criticize them, causing the children to cry every time they eat. In this way, the child will subconsciously hate and be afraid of eating. Eating became an unhappy thing.

Expert advice

On the one hand, parents should create a pleasant dining atmosphere so that children can eat happily, and try not to scold children at the dinner table to affect their mood for dining. On the other hand, if the child is unwilling to eat or does not want to eat, do not force him, just let him hungry, which is not a bad thing.

(ii) Observe the child’s stool and treat indigestion accordingly

The phenomenon of large amount of stool, foamy stool, rough stool, food residue or undigested food is mostly caused by eating too much or too high sugar content in food. For such young children, it is necessary to control their food intake or reduce the sugar content in their food. Feeding them some easily digestible food such as rice soup, lotus root starch paste, etc. will help them return to normal.

To sum up, if your child has indigestion and nausea, and is still breastfeeding, try to reduce the intake of complementary foods. If the baby is already one year old, you can feed the baby easily digestible rice porridge to help the baby grow more healthily.