How to help a child with colic?

Crying a baby with a cry is familiar to every mother. It can not be confused with something else, because during this period the child screams sharply, and grievously curses for several hours, while clutching the legs to the stomach convulsively.

In such cases, parents should know how to help their child with colic and gaziches in the abdomen. After all, long periods of crying negatively affect the general condition of the baby, exhaust his nervous system and give painful sensations. To cope with such a problem is quite possible, if you are armed with the necessary knowledge.

Why do intestinal colic occur?

Born into the world, the child has its own sterile microflora in the digestive tract. After birth, it is gradually populated with useful and conditionally harmful microorganisms. The whole process is accompanied by increased gas production, which is very painful for any child.

Visual representation of colic can be in the form of air bubbles that propel the delicate walls of the intestine, which have a variety of nerve endings. This air appears due to an imperfect process of digestion, as well as when the mother uses products that lead to gas formation, or if they are introduced as complementary foods.

Practical help with colic

To help a newborn baby with colic in the abdomen, like an older child, you can. To do this, you must be patient and understanding that this process is inevitable. To a greater or lesser degree, painful gas formation accompanies all infants from two weeks to three to five months:

1. Apply the baby to the breast right away , so that he completely grasped the nipple and halo. If this does not happen, and there is no vacuum, the air when sucked in large amounts along with the milk gets into the baby's stomach, and then into the intestines, breaking it.
2. After each feeding, the baby should be kept in a "column" (in an upright position), so that the air that was swallowed during feeding, was able to immediately exit without hitting the lower intestine.
3. Several times a day (before feeding), since birth, the baby is recommended to spread on the tummy on a fairly hard surface. This contributes to the removal of gazik and simultaneous training of the anterior abdominal wall. Also useful massage of the abdomen in a circular motion with a slight pressure.
4. As a preventive measure, starting from the second week of life, babies prone to colic should be given a plant remedy Plantex or dill vodichku, which prevents gas generation . For the removal of spasms, preparations of Espomiz type are recommended, on the basis of semeticone, which destroy the structure of the bubbles with gases, and they painlessly go out naturally.