How to relieve stomach pain and nausea in children?

Children often experience gastrointestinal pain due to improper eating habits, and usually also suffer from nausea. Parents are usually particularly worried during this period, and children are also prone to physical discomfort. So what are the common characteristics when children experience stomach pain and nausea? How should relief be provided? Let’s understand this issue together.

Characteristics of gastrointestinal pain in children

Gastrointestinal growing pains in children are paroxysmal abdominal pain caused by strong contractions of the intestinal wall muscles and are the most common condition of acute abdominal pain in children. The causes of its occurrence are related to many factors, such as catching cold, overeating, eating a lot of cold food, overfeeding the baby, etc. This type of abdominal pain is more common in children aged 3 to 12 years old. The mechanism is that due to the rapid growth and development of children, the blood supply to the body is relatively insufficient for a while, and the intestines are in a state of temporary ischemia, resulting in spasmodic contractions and pain. In addition, due to the disorder of autonomic nervous function, the intestinal wall nerve excitation and inhibition will be uncoordinated, causing strong contraction of the intestinal smooth muscle and pain, so it is also called "intestinal spasm in children" in medicine.

How to deal with it

Growing gastrointestinal pains in children generally do not require treatment. If the pain is severe, you can apply hot compress or massage the Zusanli acupoint and abdomen, which can help relieve the pain. However, there are many causes of abdominal pain in children, and a doctor must make a clear diagnosis and rule out other diseases before confirming that it is gastrointestinal growing pain. This disease is a simple functional change and a non-organic lesion, so the prognosis is good and most cases can heal themselves. If your child is given an appropriate amount of belladonna tincture orally under the guidance of a doctor, the pain can be relieved quickly.

Therefore, when children have stomach pain and nausea, it is better to adjust their diet in time. Generally, there is no need to relieve the symptoms through medication, which will cause certain damage to the child's stomach and intestines. Therefore, it is better to give children more easily digestible foods and things that can help relieve discomfort.