Causes of intestinal gas in children

When babies are young, they are prone to some diseases. At this time, parents need to send their children to the hospital for examination in time. A common disease in babies is fever. Fever has a great impact on the baby's brain development, so parents should improve it in time after discovering it. Intestinal gas in children is also relatively common. This type of disease has a great impact on the baby's physical health. What are the causes of this type of disease? The following is a detailed introduction.

Causes of intestinal gas in children:

(1) Swallowing too much air: When babies are bottle-fed, if they suck too quickly, they may inhale too much air. If the nipple hole of the bottle is not the right size or the bottle is tilted, air may be inhaled into the baby's stomach through the nipple gap. Excessive crying by babies can also easily lead to bloating.

(2) Indigestion: The accumulation of feces in the intestines causes the proliferation of gas-producing bad bacteria, or milk protein allergy, lactose intolerance, enteritis, etc. cause poor digestion and absorption, which easily produces a large amount of gas.

(3) Gastrointestinal motility disorders: They are divided into purely functional ones called "pseudo-intestinal obstruction" and "congenital megacolon" which is a true lack of ganglia in the gastrointestinal tract. Such problems vary in severity, ranging from chronic constipation and bloating to severe vomiting, and can be temporary or lifelong.

Common symptoms of gas in babies

In terms of treatment, topical application of wind-repellent oil or covering with a warm towel can also help. Changing the baby's position, such as sleeping on the stomach, will make the baby feel safe, and the stomach will be compressed, thus improving the symptoms. However, when sleeping on the stomach, you should pay attention to the mattress not being too soft to avoid suffocating the baby. This disease has a very good prognosis and most of them disappear on their own when the baby is four to five months old.

Another type of bloating caused by lactose intolerance is sometimes a sequela of enteritis, and sometimes there is "racial" lactose intolerance in Oriental peoples, which is more likely to occur in older children between the ages of three and five. For example, after a child goes to kindergarten, if he drinks more dairy products, he will suffer from bloating and stomach pain. These conditions will improve after he stops drinking milk. At this time, you can choose "low-lactose formula milk powder".

After understanding the causes of intestinal gas in children, it is also necessary to choose the correct method to treat such diseases. Especially when the disease is not clear, parents cannot choose treatment methods for their children at will, as this can easily affect the children themselves. Parents should also pay attention to this.