What are the reasons why babies leak milk from their noses?

With a baby, the whole family is happy. Becoming a mother for the first time is both exciting and nervous, because you are a new mother and don’t know much about the baby. For example, when a baby feeds milk, some babies will have milk overflowing from their noses. So what are the reasons for milk overflowing from the baby’s nose? Let’s learn about it together, mothers.

The nasal cavity and oral cavity are connected, just like the upper, middle and lower structures of a three-story building: the nasal cavity is on the upper floor, the large cavity is on the middle floor, and the trachea and esophagus are on the lower floor. These floors are connected by pipes inside (like vertical staircases). For example: the air in normal breathing enters the nasal cavity through the nostrils, then passes through the back of the mouth (oropharynx), and then enters the trachea and lungs; similarly, when you exhale through your mouth, the air enters the oropharynx from the mouth, and then enters the trachea and lungs.

Therefore, when the baby coughs, regurgitates milk or chokes on milk, the milk that flows back from the stomach through the esophagus to the mouth may also enter the nasal cavity and then overflow from the nostrils.

Because parents are worried that the milk that overflows will be inhaled into the baby's trachea, causing obstruction and breathing difficulties, when they see their baby spitting up milk, they must follow the following emergency treatment steps:

1. Immediately clear the milk in the mouth and nasal cavity (using a small towel or suction tube).

2. Turn the baby's body over so that its face is facing down, and pat the baby's back so that the milk in the mouth, nose, trachea and lungs can be coughed out effectively.

3. Let the baby cry loudly. The crying action is a large amount of inhalation and exhalation to test whether the respiratory tract is unobstructed and to clear foreign objects in the respiratory tract and mouth.

After reading the introduction in the above article, I believe that mothers must know the reasons why babies have milk regurgitating from their noses. I hope that the introduction in the article can be helpful to mothers. You must pay attention to it in life, observe your baby more often, feed your baby correctly, and if milk regurgitation occurs, take correct measures to deal with it in time.