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

Babies need a normal diet to promote digestion and keep a healthy body. Indigestion in a four-month-old baby is usually related to eating habits. Let us introduce what to do if a four-month-old baby has indigestion.

If you find your baby has abdominal distension, you should first check whether there is vomiting in addition to the distension. If it is accompanied by frequent vomiting of food, even bile or feces, constipation, only once every 3 to 5 days, and very little stool, and the baby is getting thinner, it may be congenital megacolon, and you should go to the hospital as soon as possible for further examination and treatment.

If the abdominal distension comes and goes, the distension is obvious after feeding, there is no vomiting or occasional vomiting, the distension is relieved after farting, there is no fecal-like substance felt when touching the abdomen, the feeding and eating are normal, and there is no gradual weight loss, it may be due to improper feeding methods. The child inhales more air when sucking milk, causing air pressure distension. You can give Chinese medicine: 8 grams of radish seeds, 6 grams of bitter orange, 3 grams each of licorice, magnolia bark, and tangerine peel, add 150 ml of water, decoct 60 ml, take 3 times, 1 dose per day, for 3 consecutive days.

Improve the breastfeeding method, do not let the baby suck the nipple empty, and after each breastfeeding, pick up the baby and pat his or her back gently. During breastfeeding, mothers should eat less gas-producing foods such as sweet potatoes. If an infant develops abdominal distension, cries, and has nausea and vomiting after not having a bowel movement for several days, it may be caused by accumulation of meconium. Give the infant 3 grams of senna leaves, diluted with 60 ml of boiled water. After 5 minutes, take 10 to 15 ml. The abdominal distension will disappear after the meconium is excreted, and the medication can be stopped after the abdominal distension disappears. If a baby cries incessantly due to abdominal distension, you can gently massage the baby's abdomen with your hands, or apply a little wind-repellent oil around the baby's belly button.

The above is the solution to indigestion in four-month-old babies, which usually presents with abdominal distension. Four-month-old babies are usually breastfed. If the baby eats too much and is too full. All of these will cause indigestion in four-month-old babies. I hope the above information can be helpful to all parents.