Why is my eight-month-old baby retching?

We all know that taking care of a baby is a very difficult task. Because babies cannot express their emotions, parents need to observe their babies carefully. Among them, dry retching in eight-month-old babies is a common thing for many parents. We don’t know why this happens, nor do we know how to help the baby relieve it. We are always worried that it will affect the baby’s health. Is the baby sick? Let’s find out what’s going on with dry retching in eight-month-old babies?

Why is my eight-month-old baby retching?

1. Improper feeding or eating: infants and young children eat too much at one time or the food is difficult to digest. When the weather is dry and you drink less water, a dry throat can also cause nausea.

2. Abnormal digestive function: Systemic infectious diseases, such as upper respiratory tract infection, bronchitis, pneumonia, sepsis, etc., are often accompanied by nausea symptoms.

3. Digestive tract infectious diseases: gastritis, enteritis, dysentery, appendicitis and other diseases can cause reflex vomiting due to local irritation, which is often accompanied by other digestive system symptoms such as nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea.

4. Mental factors: Some children may experience symptoms such as nausea and vomiting due to excessive mental stress or anxiety caused by certain reasons.

What to do if your eight-month-old baby is retching

1. Since there are many diseases that cause nausea and vomiting, and nausea and vomiting is only one of the symptoms of the disease, strong antiemetic drugs that act on the vomiting center should not be used blindly before the cause is identified, otherwise the disease will be delayed. Only after the cause of vomiting is identified can necessary symptomatic treatment be carried out on the basis of actively treating the cause.

2. Pay attention to your diet, don’t eat too much, and try to eat small meals frequently. The diet should be regular, with three meals at regular times and regular amounts, and no overeating. Mainly vegetarian, with some meat options. Eat vegetables and fruits regularly to meet the body's needs and keep bowel movements smooth. Eat less irritating and difficult-to-digest food, such as spicy, sour, fried, dry, hard and sticky food. Also try to eat less raw and cold food.

3. Pay attention to temperature. The baby's stomach and intestines are weak, so it is very important to pay attention to the temperature. Especially in spring and autumn when the climate changes unpredictably, you should pay attention to keeping warm and avoid catching cold. If you have spleen deficiency and diarrhea, you can stick a warm navel plaster on the navel. At the same time, you should eat less raw and cold fruits and vegetables. If you feel cold in the stomach, you can take ginger tea in time.

4. Insist on participating in appropriate physical activities. Appropriate physical exercise can increase the baby's gastrointestinal function, strengthen gastrointestinal motility, increase the secretion of digestive juice, promote food digestion and absorption of nutrients, and improve the blood circulation of the gastrointestinal tract itself and promote its metabolism.

5. Before going to bed at night, you can lie on the bed and use your hands to massage the baby's upper and lower abdomen. This can help the spleen function, remove stagnation, and clear away foul air, and has a good health care effect on the spleen and stomach.

6. Psychological treatment is the key to nausea and regurgitation caused by neuropsychiatric factors. The mental and psychological disorders of young children should be eliminated first.

The above is an introduction to why an eight-month-old baby retches. After understanding it, we know that there are many reasons for this phenomenon. Therefore, parents must carefully observe the baby when taking care of the baby. If the baby's retching is caused by illness, it is necessary to go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time. If it is due to improper feeding, the correct feeding method must be adjusted.