Why do babies have bloating? How to solve baby bloating

Young children are very delicate, so parents need to pay attention to their physical condition at all times. Today we will explain to you why babies get bloating and how to solve the problem. We hope it will be helpful to parents and friends.

(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: These disorders are classified into purely functional disorders called “pseudo-intestinal obstruction” and “congenital megacolon”, which is a true lack of ganglia in the gastrointestinal tract. The severity of these disorders varies, ranging from chronic constipation and bloating to severe vomiting, and can be temporary or lifelong.

1. Abdominal massage

Massage your baby's abdomen clockwise one hour after a meal to promote your baby's intestinal motility. Do this several times a day. At the same time, be gentle with your technique.

2. Drink more warm water

Drinking warm water can help reduce the burden on your baby's stomach, liver and kidneys. It can not only relieve constipation, reduce the incidence of cerebral thrombosis and myocardial infarction, but also help you expel gas.

3. Home Care

It is also helpful to use wind-repellent oil on the abdomen and cover it with a warm towel. These help gastrointestinal motility and gas discharge to improve digestion and absorption function.

4. Diet therapy

Eat some digestive foods.

When the baby has a bloated stomach, you can adjust the diet by giving the baby some digestive foods or foods that are easy to digest, and try to eat small amounts and multiple meals until the symptoms of bloating disappear. In addition, avoid spicy foods. Hawthorn slices and other sour foods can help digestion, and foods that strengthen the spleen and stomach include coix seeds, red dates, yam, pumpkin, and potatoes.

5. Dietary taboos

Eat less foods that easily produce gas. For example, bean products contain sugars that cannot be digested and absorbed by enzymes in the gastrointestinal tract, but are easily fermented by colon bacteria. The lactose in milk cannot be completely absorbed, so you should eat less soybeans, red beans, sweet potatoes, chestnuts, peanuts, dairy products, beer, soda and other foods.

6. Eat a balanced diet

In daily life, parents need to reasonably match the food for their children, make it diverse, avoid the food being too monotonous, and the food should be easy to digest, so as to effectively prevent the baby's bloating symptoms.

1. Avoid stirring or shaking the bottle vigorously: Shaking the bottle roughly, up and down, left and right, front and back, will destroy the nutrients in the milk powder and produce a lot of bubbles, which will cause the baby to burp continuously after drinking.

2. Avoid stirring or shaking the bottle vigorously: Shaking the bottle roughly, up and down, left and right, front and back, and any other direction will destroy the nutrients in the milk powder and produce a lot of bubbles, causing the baby to burp constantly after drinking.

3. Make sure your baby's lips are tightly closed around your nipple when feeding: If you are breastfeeding, make sure your baby's lips are tightly closed around your areola. If you are bottle-feeding, make sure your baby's lips are sucked onto the wider base of the nipple, not just the top.

4. Tilt the bottle 30-45 degrees when feeding: ensure that all the air in the bottle is at the bottom of the bottle; or use a disposable milk bag that shrinks as the baby eats. Be careful not to let the baby suck on an empty bottle or nipple for too long.

5. Pat your baby's back after feeding: After feeding, gently pat your baby's back to promote burping and gas discharge, reducing the possibility of gas in your baby.

6. Breastfeeding mothers should avoid eating foods that their babies are easily allergic to: mothers should try to eat less beans and broccoli, which contain a lot of gas-causing foods.

1. The drinks that are most likely to cause bloating are gas-containing drinks, such as cola, Sprite, etc. These drinks contain carbonic acid, which will produce water and carbon dioxide after entering the stomach, but these are mild and the gas will be discharged in the form of burping.

2. The reason why common beans, such as broad beans or soybeans, cause bloating is that the amino acids contained in beans will react with stomach acid during digestion and absorption, producing some gas, which causes bloating in the stomach.

3. Pork skin. Everyone may know that pork skin is rich in collagen, which can alleviate the aging of human skin. However, it takes a long time for the stomach to digest the skin. If there is food in the stomach for a long time, it will cause bloating.

4. Milk. Milk contains a lot of protein. Drinking too much can easily cause indigestion, bloating, and abdominal distension.

5. Sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes are a kind of food that everyone is familiar with. After being steamed, they are very sticky. After being eaten, they are also sticky. When they pass through the stomach and enter the intestines, they are more likely to block the intestines and cause flatulence.