What to do if your five-month-old baby has indigestion

After birth, the baby is not yet well adapted to the outside environment, so it is inevitable that he will suffer from diarrhea and indigestion. This is very normal, but these phenomena have a great impact on the child and can easily cause the child to have abdominal pain, cry and be restless. So in the following article, let’s learn about indigestion in 5-month-old babies.

Neonatal diarrhea is the most common gastrointestinal disease in the neonatal period, also known as neonatal indigestion and neonatal enteritis.

Once a newborn baby has frequent watery stools, parents become extremely anxious and at a loss as to what to do. They are busy feeding the baby water or boiling milk. They are afraid that if they feed the baby too much, the diarrhea will worsen, and if they feed the baby too little, they are afraid that the baby will starve. Some newborns develop diarrhea and even have a fever after just a few feedings in the hospital nursery within a few days after birth. Contact with medical staff with colds may unknowingly cause an increase in the frequency of loose stools. Sometimes newborns are very healthy in the first few days after birth, but after being discharged from the hospital, the mother's milk is not enough and some milk is added. The baby can't stand it and the frequency of stools increases and the stools are watery and smelly. What is the reason for this?

The reason is that newborns have poor immune function, especially intestinal immunity. When the intestines are infected, they are unable to weaken and neutralize the virulence of bacteria. In addition, the fetus grows in a bacteria-free greenhouse environment in the uterus, and immediately after birth it grows in an environment contaminated by numerous bacteria and viruses. Its resistance is too weak, and its digestive function and regulatory functions of various systems are also relatively poor. Therefore, newborns are prone to digestive dysfunction and infectious diarrhea.

Diarrhea caused by different pathogens is treated differently. The principles of diet and nutritional supplementation are the same as those for diarrhea in older children. Newborns should not drink too much milk when they first start to have loose stools. If breast milk is insufficient, you can add diluted milk (1 part water to 1 part milk). Do not rush and increase the amount of milk too quickly. Reduce the gastrointestinal burden, take some light salt water, vitamin C, and take gastric enzyme mixture and epididymide orally to help restore digestive function. Different types of diarrhea use different vitamins, such as some berberine, furazolidone, polymyxin, etc. If the diarrhea is caused by a virus, parents do not need to give children anti-inflammatory drugs. If the bowel movement does not improve after general treatment and the child has watery diarrhea more than 10 times, the child should be taken to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment.

From the article, we learned that the 5-month-old baby suffers from indigestion. First of all, there are many reasons for the indigestion of the child. You can pay more attention to it in your daily life, feed the child with cool foods, and pay attention to your diet when breastfeeding the child.