How to solve the problem of baby spitting up milk

Everyone should have heard a lot of common sense in life, so has your baby spit up milk? Today, the editor will share with you what to do if the baby spits up milk and how to solve the problem of baby spitting up milk?

1. It is recommended to hold the baby up for feeding. When the baby must lie down for feeding, the head should be high and the feet should be low. For breastfeeding, wash the nipple with warm water before each feeding, and hold the breast with four fingers, with the thumb placed on the nipple and areola to slow down the flow of milk. For bottle-feeding, soak and wash the feeding utensils with hot water before each feeding, and feed after the nipple is filled with milk. The nipple hole should not be too large. Hold the baby upright and pat the back after feeding to expel the swallowed air. Do not lift the lower limbs to change diapers in a short time after feeding.

2. For infants and young children who vomit frequently, if organic diseases and digestive tract inflammation are excluded, then most of them are gastroesophageal reflux. You can choose to lie sideways with your head high and feet low, with the head raised 15 degrees. For children with gastroesophageal reflux, you can lie prone with your head sideways, for 20 minutes each time, 2-4 times a day. However, there must be someone to take care of them during the prone position to prevent respiratory arrest, which can reduce the frequency of reflux, reduce the number of vomiting, prevent aspiration of vomitus, and avoid aspiration pneumonia and suffocation.

3. Recurrent vomiting and neurogenic vomiting: Strengthen physical exercise, improve physical fitness, lead a regular life, avoid overeating, try to keep your body and mind quiet, and don't force yourself to eat. In addition, be sure not to add any pressure to the child, otherwise it will aggravate vomiting. The child should arrange his life reasonably, including diet, strengthen physical exercise and increase physiological sleep time. People around should not pay too much attention to the child's vomiting symptoms, and should avoid being nervous and worried in front of the child to increase their confidence in treatment. At the same time, keep the environment clean, deal with the child's vomit in time, and replace contaminated clothes, sheets, and quilts in time to avoid continued stimulation of the child. When vomiting, you should guard by his side and give him spiritual comfort; after vomiting, help him rinse his mouth in time, bathe the child frequently, and remove the odor left on his body due to vomiting.

1. Keep your upper body elevated

Once vomitus enters the trachea, it will cause suffocation. Therefore, when letting the child lie down, it is best to put a bath towel under the child's body and keep the upper body elevated. If the child vomits while lying down, we can turn the child's face to one side.

2. After spitting up, pay more attention to the child's condition

When the child is lying down, you should raise the child's head, or simply hold the child upright. After spitting up milk, the child's face may not look good, but it is okay as long as he recovers later. In addition, you can give the child some water according to the situation.

3. Rehydrate within 30 minutes after vomiting

If you give your child water right after he or she spits up, it may cause him or her to vomit again. Therefore, it is best to try to give your child some water a little at a time with a spoon about 30 minutes after he or she spits up.

4. After spitting up, the amount of milk you feed each time should be reduced to half of the usual amount.

When the baby recovers and wants to breastfeed again, we can feed the baby some more milk. But the amount of milk each time should be reduced to about half of the usual amount, but the number of feedings can be increased. During the period of continuous vomiting, we can only feed the baby milk, and not other foods, including complementary foods.

5. Newborns spit up milk from their noses

Parents should take good care of the baby who spit up milk, and try to prevent the baby from spitting up milk out of the nose. If milk comes out of the nose, parents should pick up the baby in time, clean the baby's nose, and allow the baby to breathe smoothly.

Is it dangerous for babies to spit up?

Spitting up is a physiological phenomenon, and the baby does not feel pain or discomfort. Spitting up also has a professional name called "gastroesophageal reflux", which is a normal physiological phenomenon, usually caused by the relaxation of the sphincter in the lower esophagus of the baby or overfeeding. The stomach of a newborn baby is not yet fully developed, just like an uncovered bucket. If it is filled with milk and tilted, such as lying on the bed after drinking milk, the milk will pour out, which is what we call spitting up.

What are the reasons for babies spitting up milk?

1. If this happens, it means that the baby accidentally inhaled cold air while drinking milk, so he has to spit out the gas in his stomach and intestines. Therefore, after each feeding, parents should lift the baby's upper body to help the cold air out quickly. At the same time, you can also massage the baby's abdomen from top to bottom to effectively promote gastrointestinal motility.

2. Sometimes babies have poor digestion and may spit up milk. At this time, they need to immediately regulate the gastrointestinal flora with probiotics to help digest and absorb food faster. During this period, the amount of milk fed each time should be reduced, and the principle of small amounts and multiple times should be adopted. If the baby is already 6 months old, stop feeding other foods, and start feeding rice cereal and other complementary foods after the symptoms improve.