Reasons for newborn baby coughing and spitting up milk

How to relieve a newborn's cough and spitting up? This is what many parents want to know. It is the first time for mothers to feed their newborns, and they don’t know what is happening. What should they do if their babies cough and spit up milk? If a newborn cannot eat milk, mothers will be very anxious, because the baby can't eat anything else but breast milk. Let's take a look at the causes and measures of newborn spitting up and coughing.

1. The baby's stomach is horizontal and has a small capacity. The cardia connecting to the esophagus is relatively wide, and the pylorus connecting to the small intestine is relatively tight. Babies often inhale too much air when feeding, which can easily cause vomiting. To alleviate the phenomenon of baby spitting up, in addition to patting the baby's diaper, parents must maintain the correct posture when feeding.

2 Parents should adopt the correct breastfeeding posture: When feeding, let the baby's body be tilted at about 45 degrees, so that the milk sucked into the stomach can naturally flow into the small intestine, reducing the chance of vomiting. After feeding, be sure to pat your baby to let him/her expel the air he/she has inhaled, and then put him/her on the bed. This will make it less likely for him/her to spit up milk. The baby should not lie on his back immediately after feeding. He should lie on his side for a while and then change to lying on his back. Do not feed too much milk each time, and the interval between feedings should not be too short.

3 Coughing is very uncomfortable, and parents can use some small methods to relieve their baby’s cough. Assist your baby to cough: If the baby coughs when awake, hold the baby up and stroke the baby's back. If the baby coughs when asleep, raise the baby's upper body and head a little, and let the baby sleep on the left or right side alternately. This will help the discharge of nasal secretions. Do not let a coughing baby lie down to sleep immediately after feeding to prevent vomiting due to coughing; let the baby inhale warm and humid air: the room temperature should be 20℃, and the indoor humidity should be maintained at 60%-65%. In the dry winter and spring, you can use a humidifier in the room or hang wet towels indoors. Use a hot water bottle to relieve cough on the back: Fill the hot water bottle with hot water at about 40℃, tighten the lid, wrap the hot water bottle with a thin towel, and apply it to the baby's back near the lungs. This can speed up the expulsion of cold and quickly stop the baby's cough.

Babies' coughing and spitting up are usually caused by colds. In addition to eliminating symptoms such as coughing and spitting up, the most important thing is to treat the baby's cold. Mothers must accumulate these common sense issues in their lives. All kinds of symptoms of children need to be taken care of, so that the baby can be prevented from getting sick frequently in the future. The problem of newborn spitting up is shown above. Please read carefully.