What causes baby spitting up? Baby spitting up milk is serious and sprays milk out

It is normal for babies to spit up milk. There are many reasons for this. Generally, if the condition is not serious, the baby will recover quickly. However, if the condition is serious, it may affect the baby's health. So let's find out what causes babies to spit up milk. What causes babies to spit 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.

3. Pay attention to keeping the baby's abdomen warm. It is best to wear a pure cotton bellyband and a pure cotton top on the outside. In this way, even if the quilt is kicked off accidentally, the baby's body will not catch a cold. The temperature in the bedroom should be kept within a normal range, and even in winter it must be kept above 20 degrees.

When babies spit up milk, it is usually because the child's stomach has pyloric stenosis and the junction between the stomach and the esophagus is relatively loose. When the stomach moves strongly, the milk in the stomach will flow back from the esophagus and spray out of the mouth, forming spitting up milk. When spitting up milk, the milk is swallowed out of the mouth forcefully, and even appears in a jet shape. Spitting up milk is a normal phenomenon. Most babies spit up milk several times a day in the first few months after birth. Don't feed too quickly or too fast in normal times; if necessary, you can pause for a while in the middle to let the baby breathe more smoothly. The stomach of a newborn is lying horizontally from the front, in an unstable state, and the cardia (entrance to the stomach) is relatively loose. In other words, when adults eat, when food enters the stomach, the cardia will contract to prevent food from flowing back into the esophagus; but because the baby's stomach cardia cannot contract well, the milk that enters the stomach can flow back into the esophagus more easily. In addition, compared with adults, the larynx of newborns is higher, and their way of sucking the nipple is clumsy, which makes it easy for air to be inhaled into the stomach along with the milk when feeding. Therefore, when the child burps or shakes his body, the milk he eats is more likely to be spit out.

When a child vomits milk and the vomited milk looks like tofu dregs, you need to consider whether it is indigestion. The vomited things contain undigested food, which is related to the slowing of gastrointestinal motility. Low intestinal obstruction should also be ruled out. If necessary, you need to go to the hospital to check the abdomen and do a CT or abdominal ultrasound. Although vomiting is mainly a physiological symptom, it should also be taken seriously. Because once intestinal obstruction occurs, if it is not treated in time, intestinal necrotizing peritonitis will occur, which can seriously endanger the child's life.

If the child spits up milk, but the child's mental state is relatively good. If the child spits up milk, it is generally considered to be physiological spitting up milk. In this case, the main thing to pay attention to is the child's feeding method. During the feeding process, the child should be allowed to breathe frequently to keep the child's respiratory tract unobstructed. After feeding, you can hold the child upright, pat his back gently, and help him burp to prevent the child from spitting up milk. If the baby's mental state is not good, fever, diarrhea, this needs to be paid attention to, which may be related to gastrointestinal infection.