How to determine if a baby has gastric reflux?

The physical health of infants is very fragile and can easily manifest in various aspects. Among them, gastrointestinal manifestations have the greatest impact. Once infants have gastrointestinal problems, they will last for a long time, seriously affecting their physical development. For example, gastric reflux is one of the most common symptoms in infants, but how to judge whether the baby has gastric reflux? Many parents don’t understand it very well, so let’s take a look at the explanation below.

2. Frequent swaying or other uncomfortable movements while drinking milk or an hour later;

3. Vomiting at almost every meal, especially eruptive vomiting;

4. Swallowing is common even when not drinking milk;

5. Long-term ear infection;

6. Having sour breath for a long time;

7. Refusing to drink milk for a long time, even if hungry;

8. Not gaining weight for a long time;

9. Wake up from sleep crying suddenly

The above phenomena are also the main indicators for diagnosing gastroesophageal reflux. If there are still questions, the doctor will recommend a barium meal test, which is to let the baby eat a special liquid, and then use X-rays to see the direction of the liquid in the next half an hour. In babies with gastroesophageal reflux, most of the fluid will come up.

1. Raise the baby mattress by 30 degrees

Gastroesophageal reflux is worse when your baby is lying on his back. By raising the head of the bed, gravity can help keep food in the stomach more easily.

2. Breastfeeding too few times

Don't feed the baby until he is full each time. A full stomach is more likely to cause reflux.

3. Burp more during feeding

Many babies with gastroesophageal reflux sometimes vomit up all the milk they had before with a big burp, so you should stop and burp several times during feeding;

4. Hold the baby upright for 30 minutes after feeding.

This is also to use gravity to allow the baby to eat as much milk as possible to stay in the stomach for digestion;

5. Thicken the milk (with doctor’s consent)

With the consent of your pediatrician, you can thicken the milk to make it easier for it to stay in the stomach. For those who have already started eating complementary foods, you can add rice flour to thicken the food; for those who have not started eating complementary foods, you can use food thickeners to thicken the food, but this must be done under the guidance of a doctor.