Why does the baby always retching?

Many parents are very worried because their babies always have symptoms of dry heaving. Some children even have symptoms of dry heaving every day in severe cases. Especially when the child cries for support, the symptoms of dry heaving become more and more obvious. As parents, we feel really bad as we see our child's symptoms becoming more and more obvious and uncomfortable. So why do babies always have symptoms of dry retching?

The phenomenon of dry retching in babies may occur from a few dozen days after birth to a few years old. Dr. Pang Chong, chief physician of the Department of Otolaryngology at the Capital Institute of Pediatrics, told everyone that occasional dry heaving is relatively normal, but if the dry heaving occurs more than four times a day or lasts for one or two weeks, then parents must be vigilant and it is best to take the child to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment.

Experts say that in recent years, there have been many cases of dry retching in children, which may be related to their normal diet. For example, the food you eat contains additives such as artificial colors, which irritate the throat and cause discomfort. However, there are two more common causes, one is chronic pharyngitis, the other is gastrointestinal diseases such as gastrointestinal diseases.

Many babies will also put their hands in their mouths. Experts say that babies who cannot speak yet will "tell" adults their discomfort in this way, and this discomfort may be a foreign body sensation. In addition, since children tend to lie flat when sleeping, the mucus in their nasal cavity is likely to flow into the throat, which may cause dry heaving. Cold air can also irritate the baby's throat and cause retching.

Dry retching refers to vomiting-like movements without any vomit. Because the receptors of the vomiting center in the brain are widely distributed, in addition to the gastrointestinal tract, many other organs will transmit stimulation signals to the vomiting center through afferent nerves when stimulated, causing vomiting reactions. The most common site is the gastrointestinal tract. For example, some children suffer from cardia relaxation and are prone to vomiting when eating. If a child has pyloric stenosis, food will not easily flow from the stomach into the intestines, and vomiting will often occur.

In addition, children with hiatal hernia often experience intermittent vomiting one month after birth. However, vomiting reactions caused by gastrointestinal diseases are often accompanied by vomiting of food. In addition to gastrointestinal diseases, when the pharynx is irritated, it will automatically close the nasopharynx and periparyngeal passages, dilate the esophagus, and prevent vomit from entering the trachea or nasal cavity, resulting in vomiting or dry heaving-like reactions. In order to find out the reason why your child is retching, you can carefully observe the following. The relationship between retching and food. If a child eats a regular meal normally, but retches after eating dry puffed food or something particularly sweet, it is likely that the retching is caused by food irritating the throat.

There are many reasons why babies retch, and our experts have also provided a comprehensive introduction to the reasons in this regard. We hope that our introduction can help everyone and allow everyone to have a comprehensive understanding of the reasons why babies retch. Then, parents should treat the baby's condition as soon as possible according to the cause of the disease, and try to cure the baby's dry retching problem in a short time.