What are the symptoms of infantile intestinal spasms? Signs of intellectual retardation in babies

Babies are too young and often cry when they feel uncomfortable. Parents should pay more attention to their babies' physical condition. So what are the symptoms of infantile intestinal spasms? Signs of intellectual retardation in babies.

What are the symptoms of infantile intestinal spasms

Intestinal spasm is the most common disease in infants. Intestinal spasm is mainly caused by improper diet causing digestive dysfunction, such as eating raw and cold food or eating too quickly, swallowing too much gas, catching a cold causing gastrointestinal dysfunction, being allergic to milk, or eating a lot of sugary foods. Undigested food ferments in the intestinal cavity, producing gas that stimulates the intestinal wall, and the parasympathetic nerves are excited, causing intestinal wall muscle spasms, temporarily blocking the passage of intestinal contents, so that the proximal intestine undergoes strong contraction and peristalsis disorder. As intestinal peristalsis strengthens, abdominal pain becomes more severe and bowel sounds become more severe.

When intestinal spasms occur, children will experience sudden paroxysmal abdominal pain, and sometimes wake up from sleep crying. The pain does not last long, a few minutes or tens of minutes. During an attack, because infants cannot express themselves, they will cry incessantly, turn pale, roll over, and have cold hands and feet. Sometimes the child sweats due to severe pain and cannot be comforted. Active bowel sounds can be heard during an attack, and the abdomen cannot be touched, and is swollen and tense. However, during the intervals between attacks, the abdomen is soft, not swollen, and there are no fixed tender points. Generally, it will gradually ease after a few minutes to tens of minutes, and the pain will ease or disappear after the child passes gas or defecates. This disease gradually heals itself with age.

Mothers usually need to pay attention to reasonable feeding, and do not rush to add complementary foods, but do it step by step. Do not eat snacks and drinks before meals, and arrange your diet regularly. Do not add so-called health products or heat-removing drugs casually. When an attack occurs, you can use a warm towel and a hot water bag to warm the abdomen. Be careful not to heat the temperature too high to be careful of scalding the child; you can also use warm hands to massage the abdomen clockwise around the navel. If there is no relief, a small amount of antispasmodics can be used. Gastrointestinal motility disorders can be given domperidone (domperidone) orally. Infants under 1 year old should be cautious and need to take the medicine under the guidance of a doctor. If the child's pain lasts for a long time and cannot be relieved, and is accompanied by abdominal distension, you need to go to the hospital for examination in time, and be alert to the occurrence of intussusception.

Signs of intellectual disability in babies

1. Sleeping too much, especially "honest"

Generally speaking, a newborn baby under one month old needs about 18-20 hours of sleep in a day and night. He may only be awake for about 3-4 hours a day, which can be said to be a state of "sleeping after eating". When the baby is 2-3 months old, he needs to sleep 16-18 hours a day; when he is 5-9 months old, he still needs to sleep 15-16 hours; when he is one year old, he needs to sleep about 14-15 hours.

Some parents may say, "My baby is very well behaved. He goes to sleep after eating every day and never makes trouble." In this case, parents should be cautious. If the baby is always in a sleeping state and is difficult to wake up, and it exceeds a reasonable time for a long time, it is best to take the baby to the hospital for a check-up.

2. Dull expression

Some babies with congenital intellectual disabilities have abnormal facial features and body shapes. For example, children with congenital idiocy have wide-set eyes, slanted eyes, flat noses, tongues that often hang out of the mouth, and drooling, which is what people often call "international face". Children with hydrocephalus have particularly large head circumferences, and children with microcephaly have particularly small heads.

If the baby's expression is always dull, and he does not smile until he is 100 days old, and his expression is unnatural, and he still cannot smile normally at 6 months old, parents need to take the baby to see a doctor in time.

3. Abnormal crying sound

If the baby suddenly screams loudly, without echo, with a rapid start and a quick disappearance, and such crying combined with other symptoms such as shaking head, staring, drowsiness, irritability, fever, convulsions, etc., it may be a brain disease such as purulent meningitis;

If the baby suddenly stops crying and becomes too quiet, this is also an abnormal phenomenon. Because some newborns are too sick to cry, parents need to observe carefully and go to the hospital for treatment in time if there are any abnormal behaviors.

4. The head cannot stand up

Some babies cannot hold their heads up or turn their heads when they are 100 days old, and one or both eyes keep looking inward or outward. At this time, parents can give their babies some head-raising training. If there is no effect, take them to the hospital for examination immediately, ask the doctor the reason, discover the problem as soon as possible, and treat it in time.

5. Poor sucking ability

Some babies learn to chew late, and are prone to swallowing difficulties and vomiting when eating solid food. The earliest symptoms of intellectually disabled babies are often difficulty in feeding, inability to suck, and spitting up milk, which indicates damage to the nervous system and will affect intelligence in the future. When the baby is six months old and complementary foods are added, chewing is late and feeding is difficult, and solid food is difficult to swallow and causes vomiting.

What are the steps for newborn umbilical cord care?

1. Wash your hands with warm water, disinfect them, and then prepare the alcohol, cotton swabs, gauze and other items you will need.

2. Pick up the prepared alcohol swab with one hand, and gently pick up the ligature of the umbilical cord with the other hand. Use the hand holding the swab to gently wipe the surrounding area of ​​the umbilical cord to prevent the umbilical fossa from sticking to the umbilical cord.

3. Then use a new alcohol cotton swab to gently wipe from the center of the navel to the outer circle to disinfect and clean the navel.

4. After disinfection, be sure to disinfect the umbilical cord ligature that you have touched with your hands with an alcohol swab.

5. For newborns under 7 days old, the mother must wipe and disinfect the baby 2 to 3 times a day to avoid infection.

6. Continue to do disinfection care until the belly button falls off. First, gently wipe the middle of the belly button, then wipe the surrounding area, and cover it with sterilized gauze.

7. It is done when the baby's umbilical cord is completely connected and dry.

8. The umbilical cord should be kept dry before it falls off. If the base of the umbilical cord is accidentally wetted during bathing, it should be wiped clean with a clean cotton swab before performing umbilical cord care.

9. Do not apply creams, lotions or oils to the base of the umbilical cord to prevent the umbilical cord from drying out and even causing infection.

What medicine should be taken to treat the baby's wind-heat cold

1. Yinqiao Jiedu Tablets

Functions and indications: This product can dispel wind and relieve exterior symptoms, clear away heat and detoxify. It is used for wind-heat cold, with symptoms of fever, headache, cough, dry mouth and sore throat.

Main ingredients: The main ingredients of this product are mint, light black beans, light bamboo leaves, licorice, honeysuckle, schizonepeta, platycodon, forsythia, and burdock.

Packaging specifications: Each piece weighs 0.55 grams

Dosage: Oral. 4 tablets at a time, 2 to 3 times a day.

2. Sangju Cold Tablets

Functions and indications: This product dispels wind and heat, promotes lung function and relieves cough. It is used for the initial stage of wind-heat cold, headache, cough, dry mouth and sore throat.

Main ingredients: The main ingredients of this product are peppermint oil, licorice, platycodon, chrysanthemum, bitter almond, forsythia, reed root and mulberry leaf.

Packaging specifications: Each piece weighs 0.4g

Dosage and Administration: Oral administration. 4 to 8 tablets at a time, 2 to 3 times a day.

3. Isatis root granules

Main effects: clearing away heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and relieving sore throat. It is used for sore throat caused by excessive heat in the lungs and stomach, dry mouth and throat, and acute tonsillitis with the above symptoms.

Main ingredients: Radix Isatidis. Auxiliary ingredients: sucrose and dextrin

Dosage: Take with boiled water. 5-10 grams each time, 3-4 times a day.