What is the reason for baby retching when eating milk?

Many parents don’t understand many things when they first become parents. For example, many babies experience symptoms such as retching after feeding, which makes many parents very worried. Seeing our baby in so much pain, we parents don’t know what to do. In fact, if we want to effectively solve the symptoms of baby's dry retching, we first need to understand the causes of baby's dry retching?

The cardia function of children is not yet fully developed, so if they move vigorously or cough after feeding, they may vomit. Don't feed too much each time. After feeding, it is best to let the child lie on the adult's shoulder and pat the child's back with your hand to let the inhaled air escape. After feeding, when picking up and putting down the child, the movement should be gentle and the degree of movement should be small. Don't shake too much. Usually, you must pay attention to sleeping on your side and vomiting. You must turn sideways and lower your head as soon as possible to let the child vomit. If you don't have time to vomit from the mouth, it will come out of the nasal cavity. This is easy to choke the respiratory tract and cause aspiration pneumonia or even suffocation, which may lead to life-threatening. It will gradually get better after 4-6 months.

The milk powder that the child eats must be heated up. At the same time, eat small and frequent meals. Take some baby spleen-strengthening powder for a week and observe. The food should be light. If it is breast milk, the mother should also pay attention to it.

The stomach of a child is horizontal with a flat bottom, so the contents can easily overflow. After standing and walking, the diaphragm descends and gravity causes it to gradually turn into a vertical position. In addition, the baby's stomach capacity is small, the stomach wall muscles and nerves are not yet fully developed, and the muscle tension is low, all of which can easily cause milk regurgitation. The cardia (near the esophagus) sphincter of the baby's stomach is not as well developed as the pylorus (near the duodenum), making the stomach's outlet tight and the entrance loose, so the stomach's contents can easily flow back into the esophagus and cause milk regurgitation when lying flat. Improper feeding methods, excessive feeding in infants, inverted nipples of the mother, or empty bottles with no milk in the nipples, can all cause the baby to swallow a lot of air and cause milk regurgitation. Frequent changes in body position after feeding can also easily cause milk regurgitation.

When parents find that their baby has symptoms of vomiting milk, they must pay great attention to it and go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time. You can try using food mother raw, lactase raw, compound amylase oral liquid, etc. to promote digestion. You can also try giving your baby bovine colostrum. In addition to being rich in high-quality protein, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients, it is also rich in active immunoglobulins that can inhibit the reproduction of bacteria. This can effectively help the baby promote digestion and better absorption.

After learning and understanding, parents should not only provide comprehensive nutrition for their babies, but also pay more attention to helping their babies improve their intestinal function, increase immunity and promote digestion and absorption. This can reduce the phenomenon of babies retching after feeding. It is recommended that you take timely prevention measures for the reasons of babies retching after feeding introduced in the article.

If we want to effectively relieve the harm caused by dry retching to the baby and relieve the symptoms of dry retching in the baby, the first thing we need to do is to understand the reasons why the baby has dry retching. Then carry out targeted treatment. After solving the problem of baby's dry retching, we as parents can feel at ease and let our children grow up healthy and happy. A baby's retching is a big deal, and as parents we must take it seriously.