How to take care of a child who vomits after feeding

I believe everyone is familiar with the symptom of children vomiting after feeding. There are many reasons why children vomit after feeding, so we recommend that parents and friends must pay attention to this symptom. Once the child has this symptom, the cause should be found out in time and targeted treatment should be made. In addition, care measures should also be taken. Below we will introduce how to care for children who vomit after feeding.

1. Keep your upper body elevated

If vomitus enters the trachea, it can cause suffocation. Therefore, when letting your child lie down, it is best to put a bath towel under the child's body and keep the upper body elevated. If the baby spit up while lying down, we can turn the baby's face to one side.

2. After spitting up, pay more attention to the child's condition

When the child is lying down, raise the child's head or simply hold the child upright. After spitting up, the baby may look unhappy, but it is fine as long as he recovers later. In addition, you can give your child some water as appropriate depending on the situation.

3. Rehydrate within 30 minutes after vomiting

If you give your child water right after he or she spits up, it may cause vomiting again. Therefore, it is best to try to feed your child some plain water a little bit at a time with a spoon about 30 minutes after vomiting.

4. After spitting up, the amount of milk you feed each time should be reduced to half of the usual amount.

When the baby recovers and wants to breastfeed again, we can feed him some more milk. However, the amount of milk each time should be reduced to about half of the usual amount, but the number of feedings can be increased. During the period of continuous vomiting, we can only feed the baby milk and not other foods, including complementary foods.

In the above article, we introduced a symptom that children are prone to, that is, vomiting after feeding. We know that the occurrence of this situation has caused great trouble to children and parents. The above article has introduced in detail how to care for children who vomit after feeding.