What is the cause of the three-year-old baby's stomach pain?

Babies have various problems in life, and some of them have stomach pain. This phenomenon also occurs in three-year-old babies. Some parents worry that this phenomenon is caused by a disease. In order to protect the baby from some unexpected diseases, we need to understand what this phenomenon is. So we need to analyze what is going on.

1. Appendicitis in children under 3 years old is very easy to be misdiagnosed

1. Appendicitis and intussusception are the most common diseases in surgical outpatient clinics. If a child under 3 years old has sudden abdominal pain, parents should be careful, because appendicitis in children under 3 years old can easily be misdiagnosed. This is mainly because children under 3 years old cannot express themselves clearly. By the time the diagnosis is confirmed, an obvious lump is already found in the lower right abdomen.

2. Intussusception is also an acute attack, which mostly occurs in children aged 6 months to 1 year old. However, recently the number of children aged 3-4 years old experiencing intussusception in the outpatient clinic has gradually increased. Intussusception initially manifests as paroxysmal abdominal pain, which lasts for a few minutes and then disappears. After a while, the abdominal pain reappears, accompanied by vomiting. Over time, there will be blood in the stool, and a noticeable small lump can be felt during the stomach pain. If your baby has intussusception, you should go to the hospital for treatment in time to avoid ischemia and necrosis due to prolonged pressure on the intussuscepted part of the intestine. At that time, surgical treatment must be taken.

2. Don’t worry too much if you don’t have fever or other symptoms

1. However, sometimes parents do not need to worry too much about their baby's abdominal pain. Some healthy babies also often experience abdominal pain, which is mostly functional abdominal pain. Functional abdominal pain is when the cause cannot be found through examinations and tests, but the symptoms will disappear on their own after a period of time. It can only be confirmed after organic lesions have been ruled out.

2. Among them, the most common is intestinal spasm, which is often called gastrointestinal growing pain. This is related to the immaturity of the baby's nervous system or temporary ischemia of the gastrointestinal tract. Parents can gently massage the baby's belly, or apply hot compresses to the abdomen with a hot water bottle, hot towel, etc., and the pain will be relieved and disappear. This method is also suitable for intestinal cramps caused by cold in babies.

3. In addition, you don’t need to worry too much about these types of abdominal pain, namely abdominal pain caused by emotional tension, cold stomach, excessive exercise (just stop exercising), and allergic abdominal pain (it will get better by stopping feeding allergic foods). However, experts remind parents that they must pay close attention to their baby's consciousness, appetite and bowel movements when he or she has abdominal pain. If the child has symptoms of fever, vomiting, and loss of appetite, this abdominal pain is generally caused by inflammation.

3. Children with abdominal pain should pay attention to these

1. It is not recommended to take painkillers without authorization;

2. When parents take their babies to see a doctor, they should pay attention to the location of the baby's pain, the duration of pain, and some accompanying symptoms, and provide as comprehensive information as possible about the baby's living habits, especially eating habits, what the baby ate before the onset of the disease, and bowel habits. Parents should try to remember them;

3. Parents can judge the order in which abdominal pain and its accompanying symptoms appear, which will facilitate medical treatment. For example, many children with abdominal pain will also have fever. If the fever comes first and then the abdominal pain, it is more likely to be an internal medicine disease; if the abdominal pain comes first and then the fever, it is more likely to be a surgical disease.

4. Usually, you should guide your baby to do proper physical exercise to enhance resistance. It is best to let your baby sit quietly for half an hour after a meal.

5. Parents with gastritis and digestive tract infections should try not to eat with their babies.

Through the above content, we have learned the specific knowledge about baby's stomach pain. If the baby's stomach pain disappears quickly, we don't have to worry, as it is not caused by any disease. If the baby has severe stomach pain, we must go to the hospital for treatment to avoid some diseases that may harm our baby.