Symptoms and causes of indigestion in babies

Many babies suffer from indigestion, and such a disease is harmful to the health of children, because many babies have poor digestive function. Therefore, if the diet structure is not comprehensive, it is particularly easy to cause indigestion. Therefore, many parents want to understand the manifestations and causes of baby indigestion. In order for you to understand it as soon as possible, please see the introduction below.

The special physiological basis of young children can easily lead to conflicts with their rapid growth and high nutritional requirements. If parents do not take proper care of their children, causing them to be too hungry or too full, it will be enough to affect the spleen and stomach function, causing digestive dysfunction and leading to indigestion. Indigestion in young children has always been a headache for many parents. How to make young children eat happily? Parents may have tried many ways to this end but to no avail. Nutrition experts point out the causes and solutions for indigestion in young children.

There are three main reasons for indigestion in young children.

【1】The food given is not easy to digest.

Since infants and young children have poor digestive abilities, parents should feed their children foods that they can digest and absorb and are willing to accept based on their age characteristics. On the one hand, parents should gradually change their children's diet from liquid to semi-liquid (such as rice soup, paste food, porridge, etc.) and solid food (such as soft rice, bread, etc.) according to the different age characteristics of their children.

The digestive juices of babies under 3 months old are different from those of adults, and their ability to digest starch is relatively poor, so special attention needs to be paid. For infants under 2 years old, the added complementary foods must be rotten, fine and soft. For children aged 2-3 years old, the food can be a little coarser.

【2】Giving too much new food.

For example, some children eat shrimps for the first time and think they taste good, so they eat a lot at once, resulting in indigestion. Therefore, when parents let their infants and young children try a new food, they should let them adapt slowly. Don’t give too much at one time. Increase the amount gradually to allow the child to adapt.

【3】Improper food combination.

Children's growth requires a variety of different nutrients, including protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and trace elements, cellulose and other nutrients. Food is the most basic, but meat, fish, milk, eggs, vegetables, fruits, etc. are also necessary for the body. Therefore, parents need to rationally match the food they give their children to achieve diversity and avoid food being too monotonous.

In addition, you should also learn to identify problems from your child’s poop.

Because each infant and young child has different bowel habits, the number of bowel movements per day will also be different. Clinically, it is normal for infants within 6 months to defecate 6 to 7 times a day, and for infants between 6 and 12 months to defecate 2 to 3 times a day. In addition, young children will have different bowel movement characteristics due to factors such as genetics, personality, physique and food intake, but as long as they can maintain a regular bowel movement habit every day and there are no particularly abnormal phenomena, there is no need to worry too much.

Explanation of diarrhea in young children

If a child's bowel movements increase in frequency or the color and properties of his stool change significantly, mothers should pay attention. Based on clinical manifestations, diarrhea in young children can be divided into mild diarrhea and severe diarrhea.

Mild diarrhea:

Young children have bowel movements about 3 to 10 times a day. The stools are yellow or green in color, thin and mushy or egg drop soup-like, often with white or yellowish-white curds or foam and a sour taste. Occasionally, there is nausea and vomiting. The children are in good spirits, have slightly lost weight, and their body temperatures are mostly normal, with occasional low fever and no obvious symptoms of dehydration. This situation is mostly caused by non-bacterial infectious diarrhea due to improper eating, indigestion or cold.

Poop analysis:

The digestive system of young children is not yet fully developed, and the regulatory function of the nervous system is also imperfect. If a bottle-fed child adds complementary foods too quickly, changes the type of diet, or changes milk, and other sudden changes exceed the digestive tract's ability to bear, it will increase the burden on the digestive tract, cause digestive dysfunction and lead to diarrhea. It may also be caused by climate change or improper care.

The above is a detailed introduction to the symptoms and causes of baby indigestion. Therefore, for many mothers, if they want their babies to digest normally, they must understand the above content, and then understand some of the causes and symptoms, and then carry out targeted and effective treatment, so that their children can eat healthily as soon as possible.