What to do if children have indigestion

Indigestion in children is a very common phenomenon. If a child suffers from indigestion, it will easily affect the absorption of nutrients and will easily cause diarrhea. Therefore, parents cannot ignore the phenomenon of indigestion in children. They must cultivate good habits for their children in life and diet so that children can eat and digest normally, eat well and sleep well, which is something every parent likes to see.

There are many factors that cause indigestion in children, such as always feeding children food that is difficult to digest, or feeding children too many new foods that they have never eaten before, and unreasonable food combinations, etc. If a child has indigestion, parents should pay more attention to their children's diet. Do not give children leftover food or cold food. They should eat easily digestible food. The following introduces what to do if children have indigestion.

Tip 1: Reasonable food combination

After the baby is 4 months old, parents need to add complementary foods other than milk to the child's diet and pay attention to giving the child a nutritionally balanced diet. A balanced diet means that the food that infants and young children eat can meet the needs of their age and physical development. Children's growth requires a variety of different nutrients, including protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and trace elements, cellulose and other nutrients. Grain is the most basic food, while meat, fish, milk, eggs, vegetables, fruits, etc. are all necessary for the body.

Tip 2: Add new foods gradually

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.

Tip 3: Give your baby food that is easily digestible

Since infants and young children have poor digestive abilities, parents should feed their children foods that they can digest and absorb and that they 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) and solid food (such as soft rice, bread, etc.) according to the different age characteristics of their children. Infants under 3 months old have different digestive juices from adults and are less able to digest starch, so special attention needs to be paid. For infants and young children under 2 years old, the added supplementary food must be rotten, fine and soft. For example, the vegetables can be chopped, mashed and made into vegetable puree. For infants and young children aged 2-3 years old, because they already have 16-20 deciduous teeth, the food can be a little coarser. At the same time, foods such as whole melon seeds, beans, peanuts, and jelly are very dangerous for infants and young children, as they may be swallowed into their organs, so they must be ground into powder and crushed before being eaten.

Therefore, parents need to carefully match their children's diet to provide a variety of foods and diversify them to avoid partial eating, picky eating, and monotonous food.

Trick 4: Appropriate drug treatment

If your baby is already showing symptoms of indigestion, you may consider giving them some yeast tablets. Alkaline yeast tablets can neutralize excess stomach acid. But this is only a temporary way to relieve symptoms and is only effective for a short time. And it cannot repair the damage to the esophagus caused by gastric acid reflux. If these medicines are taken before meals, some of the solution will remain in the stomach, which can increase the surface tension of the stomach wall and reduce the potential possibility of acid reflux.

Medications such as H2 blockers reduce the production of stomach acid. This prevents gastric juice reflux. Prevention is obviously less painful than treatment. Omeprazole-type drugs can not only treat excessive gastric acid secretion, but also treat damage to the esophagus caused by acid reflux.

There is also a class of drugs that work by enhancing the activity of the stomach, thus improving the overall working capacity of the digestive system. However, these drugs usually have significant side effects. Therefore, if you use this type of medicine, you should consult your pediatrician first.

Usually, indigestion in young children is only temporary, occurring once or twice, or may be caused by other illnesses in the body that cause the digestive system to not work properly over a period of time. However, if the nausea lasts for a long time, or if the ability to regulate has not increased accordingly with age and the problem still occurs frequently, you should go to the hospital for a special check-up of the digestive system and treat the problem as soon as possible.

Have you learned what to do if children have indigestion? I hope the above methods are helpful to you. In daily life, appropriately increasing the amount of exercise for children can also improve their digestive function, avoid indigestion, and make children healthier.