Can a newborn baby hiccup be left untreated? Can a newborn baby hiccup be treated with a tube?

It is normal for newborns to hiccup, because there are many reasons for babies to hiccup, but some new mothers will be nervous and worried, so let's find out whether newborn hiccups can be left untreated? Do newborn hiccups require tubes?

It is not okay to leave the hiccups of babies untreated. Frequent hiccups can cause the baby to spit up milk, so in daily life, you must pat the baby's burp when feeding, which can effectively prevent the phenomenon of spitting up milk. Hiccups are mainly caused by the baby swallowing a lot of air when feeding. During the hiccups, you must avoid feeding the baby water and milk, which can effectively prevent the milk from choking into the trachea and causing pneumonia. In daily life, if the baby often hiccups, parents should be vigilant. This may be caused by gastrointestinal dysfunction. Probiotics can be used to improve the symptoms of hiccups. If the hiccups are not improved for a long time, this may induce constipation or stomach upset symptoms in the baby.

1. Newborns hiccup because they are in a hurry to drink milk or they have just cried a lot, which may cause breathing problems and tracheal obstruction. However, you don't need to worry too much about this phenomenon. If this happens, you can pat the child's back and the hiccups will stop. You need to pay attention to this problem next time you feed your baby. You can't feed your baby when he is crying.

2. It may also be that the child eats too much without restraint, which makes the child's stomach and intestines not digest well, leading to hiccups. In this case, you can gently massage the child's abdomen to promote gastrointestinal digestion, or take some hawthorn pills to help the child digest. Because the child is small, you need to pay attention to feeding small meals frequently, so that the child can fully digest before eating the next meal.

3. If the child has no other symptoms, it is possible that the newborn's stomach is cold and the child is burping. At this time, you can divert the child's attention, tease the child, and let the child drink hot water to smooth the stomach. This is also a good method. At the same time, the mother's feeding posture should be correct to make the child's stomach smooth. Do not lie flat, lie on the side, or other bad postures. The second thing is to strengthen the warmth to avoid this situation from happening again.

Newborns can be burped while holding them upright, but the posture must be correct. The gastric cardia of newborns is not well developed, so it is easy for them to spit up milk and overflow after feeding, so you should burp your baby after every feeding. Hold the baby upright and let him lean on an adult, with his head on the adult's shoulder and sideways. Gently pat the baby's back with your hollow palm to pat out the gas. If it doesn't come out, it's okay. Just hold the baby upright for a while and then gently put it down. Note that the force of burping must be gentle. Newborns can be burped while holding them upright. Newborn hiccups are mostly caused by the child inhaling a lot of air while feeding. In this case, do not let the child lie down immediately after feeding. You can hold the child upright and gently pat the child's back until the child expel the gas. Parents should also pay attention to the feeding posture and use a scientific feeding posture.

Improper care, cold, cold and heat, and the reverse flow of cold and heat are called "drinking cold wind" and induce hiccups. If there is no other disease and hiccups suddenly occur, the sound is loud, strong and continuous, which is generally caused by cold. Improper feeding, if the feeding is not moderate, or if too much raw and cold milk or too much cold medicine is taken, the qi will be stagnant, the spleen and stomach function will be weakened, and the qi movement will be abnormal, causing the stomach qi to reverse and move the diaphragm, inducing hiccups. Eating too quickly or eating after crying can also induce hiccups.