What is the reason why children fart frequently?

If a child farts frequently, it may be caused by indigestion or catching a cold. If you want to alleviate this symptom, it is best to pay more attention to dietary regularity, give your child more easily digestible food, and feed your child more fresh vegetables and fruits to keep the bowels open. In addition, you must pay more attention to keeping warm. Generally, the symptoms of farting will be alleviated.

What is the principle of farting?

Farting is a normal physiological phenomenon of human beings. When people eat food, more gas is produced due to the action of normal bacteria in the digestive tract. These gases move downward with intestinal peristalsis and are discharged from the anus. During discharge, a sound is sometimes produced due to the action of the anal sphincter. Therefore, farting is a sign of normal intestinal function.

Why does my baby always fart and it smells bad?

Mothers should all know that eating too much starchy food will cause more farting. For example: sweet potatoes and potatoes. If your baby also likes to eat pasta, he will fart more. At this time, parents should appropriately reduce the amount of foods with high starch content, eat more vegetables, and add some protein foods.

Also, if your baby farts a lot, but they are all empty farts and have no bad smell. In this case, it is most likely that you are hungry, because hunger will cause frequent intestinal peristalsis, which will cause you to fart. Generally speaking, parents are aware of this situation, because frequent intestinal movements are usually accompanied by rumbling stomachs. There is no need to panic at this time, it’s time to feed your baby more!

But if the baby farts frequently, it will be smelly and have a sour smell. Then, your baby probably has indigestion. Parents should reduce their baby's food intake appropriately. Give your baby plenty of water. And reduce the intake of foods high in fat and protein. The rice porridge you usually eat can be made thinner and the amount of rice porridge can be reduced.

Just like us adults, if we often eat garlic, onions, leeks, or eat too much protein food, our farts will be smelly. Here, parents should pay attention. In addition to the baby's smelly farts, once the baby has colic, fever, fishy odor, or gastrointestinal bleeding, if accompanied by bloody stools, persistent constipation, diarrhea, weight loss, and always feeling the urge to defecate, please seek medical attention in time.

Massaging your baby every day can help digestion. Start at your belly button and massage in a clockwise spiral outward. At the same time, you can apply hot compress to the baby's belly to prevent the baby from catching a cold. In addition, do not change milk powder frequently. Choose a milk powder that is suitable for your baby and stick to it. Frequent changes of milk powder will cause your baby's stomach to adapt.

Another thing is that if your baby farts frequently, it is very likely that he is about to poop. At the same time, mothers who are breastfeeding should also pay attention to eating less or no irritating foods that easily produce gas. Children have a lot of farts and there are many types of them. Parents need to prescribe the right medicine for each condition.

If your baby does not fart, is constipated, and only defecates once every three days, then you need to treat the constipation. Make sure your baby drinks plenty of water, develop reasonable eating habits for your baby, and pay attention to the nutritional combination of your baby's complementary food.