Is there a relationship between baby spitting up and jaundice? Does jaundice affect baby spitting up?

Is there any relationship between baby spitting up and jaundice? Jaundice is a common disease in newborns. Many newborn babies have high jaundice. When feeding the baby, will it be because of jaundice that affects the baby's spitting up? Let's explain the relationship between jaundice and spitting up.

Is there any relationship between baby spitting up and jaundice?

There should be no direct relationship. If the child has severe jaundice and refuses to drink milk, it may be a problem of bilirubin encephalopathy. If it is just vomiting, first pay attention to whether there is a possibility of digestive tract abnormality.

If you have neonatal jaundice, you must pay attention to the jaundice value of the newborn. Jaundice is divided into physiological jaundice and pathological jaundice. The cause of neonatal jaundice is the increase of serum bilirubin concentration caused by bilirubin metabolism disorder. Neonatal jaundice, vomiting after drinking milk, but it is also due to the poor digestion of the newborn. After all, the digestive function of the baby's stomach is not perfect. Pay attention to keeping warm and eat small meals and eat small meals frequently.

There is no need to worry if your baby spills milk or spits up slightly

When babies spit up milk, most mothers will feel distressed, mainly because of the baby's health, and a little distressed for the milk they have worked so hard to produce. Generally speaking, it is normal for babies to spit up milk. Apart from the trouble of adding to the washing process, there is actually no major harm. The amount of milk that babies spit up is not much, and most of the milk is actually consumed by the baby.

Compared to regurgitation, spitting up milk will make mothers feel more distressed. Mothers often describe it as "spitting up milk in big mouthfuls" or "spitting up milk like a fountain". If the baby does not spit up a lot of milk every day, but only occasionally, then most of the time it is physiological spitting up milk. The reason is related to the physiological characteristics of the stomach like regurgitation. When the stomach contracts, it may shoot some milk into the esophagus like an air gun.

How to care for a newborn baby who spits up severely

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 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 as the best; 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 you during the prone period to prevent apnea, 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, live 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 rinse your mouth in time, bathe the child frequently, and remove the odor left on the body due to vomiting.

4. For children who are prone to vomiting, especially those who vomit after catching a cold or coughing: they should strengthen nutrition and physical exercise to improve the body's immunity, or take bovine colostrum and transfer factor to prevent colds; meals should be regular and quantitative; do not eat too much; food must be fresh and hygienic; do not feed the children overly spicy, smoked, or greasy food.

5. Children who are prone to vomiting when taking medicine: When feeding the medicine, the liquid medicine should not be too hot or too cold; children who are difficult to feed medicine can also take small amounts and multiple doses; if necessary, they can take a mouthful and wait for a while before taking it again. After vomiting, clean the mouth, face, and neck skin in time, and change the contaminated clothes and bed sheets.

6. Some children are born with a sensitive pharyngeal reflex, which can easily cause vomiting. This manifests as vomiting when they catch a cold. Therefore, when seeing a doctor, you should explain this to the doctor. At this time, you should eat easily digestible liquid or semi-liquid foods, and don't eat too much, generally about half of your usual diet.

Spitting up is a common problem in newborn care. Today, I will introduce the relationship between jaundice and spitting up. After reading the above introduction, do you understand whether jaundice will affect the baby's spitting up? If the baby has symptoms of spitting up, the above care methods will definitely relieve the baby's spitting up.