What should I do if my baby has a stomach ache?

If your child has a stomach ache, then it can signal a variety of problems of the gastrointestinal tract.

Children of any age can complain of stomachaches, and the causes of such sensations can be diseases of the digestive tract, kidney and urea problems, appendicitis, pneumonia and even acute respiratory infections.

What if the child complains of pain in the stomach, how to treat the baby, what medicines to give him?

Causes of pain

Those who have ever experienced discomfort in the abdominal area after eating, do not know what to do, because these sensations can be completely different.

Pains after eating can be felt somewhere in the area of ​​the ribs or in the lower abdomen, can be both sticky and sharp, in the form of spasms or gurgling.

To improve the life of a small patient, it is necessary to understand which factors caused these unpleasant sensations after eating.

Most often, the abdomen of babies up to a year hurts because of colic. A child at this age can not say and show exactly where his stomach hurts.

This is usually a cutting pain in the abdomen of a baby almost from birth. Typically, such symptoms are diagnosed in 20% of all babies.

Such pains are unstable and can appear at any time, besides, they are accompanied also by the accumulation of gases. This condition of the baby is considered by doctors to be a response to poor and improper nutrition.

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Colic in the stomach area of ​​the baby can signal the intolerance of lactose, which is in the milk of the mother.

The transition to artificial feeding can also trigger a condition. Usually the state of the baby is adjusted to 5-6 months, and nothing to do for this is not necessary.

Often the stomach in children hurts with gastroesophageal reflux disease( GERD).

GERD is most often manifested by heartburn, in which the digestive fluid actively moves, causing burning at the top of the abdomen and under the sternum. These sensations cause severe discomfort after eating.

Heartburn after a meal is supplemented by spasms in the abdomen, which is manifested by the crying of the child. Pathology can occur in the child situationally.

If your mom thinks that her baby has developed GERD, you should definitely visit a specialist.

In the case of gastritis in a small patient, the pain is both acute and persistent. Gastritis can develop for various reasons.

First of all it is the bacterium Helikobakter Pilori, eating disorders, stresses, taking medications. If the pathology of children is not treated, the consequences can be the most sad.

Provoking constipation in the stomach can also constipation, which abruptly begin and disappear. Constipation often occurs in children, which parents, accustoming to a pot, are forced to go to the toilet on command.

Stagnation in the gut causes the baby to have sharp left pain, nausea, sometimes even vomiting. To alleviate the condition will help food with fiber and a large amount of fluid in the diet.

Diarrhea is also often accompanied by colic after eating. Usually it is intestinal spasms and "gurgling" in the stomach.

Diarrhea is often the result of bacterial infections, viruses, helminthic invasions, food poisoning. Weighed down with diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, which indicates the severity of the disease.

The abdomen can hurt the baby and when infected with worms, especially if the infection has already gotten out of control. The condition can supplement a bloated stomach, gases, nausea and vomiting, convulsions, diarrhea.

In children from 5 to 10 years of age, the cause of pain after eating can be stress. In this case, the baby spends a long time on the toilet, trying to ease his condition.

Attacking viruses or bacteria can cause gastric flu that accompanies severe pain, vomiting, and diarrhea.

Babe can complain of spasms and cutting pains behind the ribs that talk about stomach contractions.

Indigestion can cause unpleasant sensations. Symptoms of such pathology are sharp and strong painful sensations, which are intensified when inhaled.

Most often, this condition occurs after overeating, when the child quickly ate his portion and drank an excessive amount of soda or juice.

A very dangerous condition, which is accompanied by severe pain, is appendicitis. Pain in this condition is becoming stronger, usually the sensations are localized right below or in the middle of the abdomen. Accompany the pathology may vomit, fever.

What should I do if I have complaints?

If the baby complains of discomfort, ask him to lie down for at least 20 minutes in a relaxed state. Relieve discomfort can lie on your back with your legs bent.

To ease the suffering of a small patient, a bottle of warm water or warmed wheat will help - they are placed in the area of ​​the stomach.

However, if the mother suspects the baby of appendicitis, then a warm water bottle can only aggravate the situation.

To ease the condition of the baby will be able to steam a sip of clean warm water.

But you do not need to give your baby to drink without measure and very quickly, as this will only exacerbate the condition - vomiting, severe pain will begin.

Massage the baby's belly, moving his hand clockwise, which corresponds to the movement of food through the digestive tract. Such a massage will help alleviate severe pain symptoms.

Warm drink, for example, sweet tea with lemon and honey, will help to relieve spasm and relax the abdominal muscles.

You can make a child and tea with ginger, which relaxes the musculature of the stomach, but it is not always possible to persuade the child to drink this particular flavored drink.

In some cases, so that unpleasant symptoms go away, it is enough for the child to simply release painful gases, for which it is worthwhile to suggest that the baby sit on the pot.

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Parents need to understand that giving a child any medication without consulting a doctor is strictly prohibited.

So, laxatives can further worsen the condition of the baby, and painkillers only disguise important symptoms.

Most often, discomfort in the abdomen of a baby is not a symptom of some serious dangerous pathologies.

However, in some cases, mum should still not ignore the child's complaints:

• pain does not pass more than 2 hours;
• , when the baby moves, the sensations become stronger;
• symptoms are repeated from time to time, often or regularly;
• pain is supplemented by fever;
• the baby has a rash, the skin is very pale;
• in the feces of the child can be seen black stripes;
• the baby has vomiting with blood or greens;
• painful urination;
• very strong sensations in any area of ​​the abdomen;
• the boy has pain in the groin, testicles, scrotum.

Medical care for pain

Persistent pain that does not relieve within two hours can talk about appendicitis. In this case the child feels pain when touching the stomach, often there is vomiting, diarrhea, fever.

In this case, the child's parents must urgently call an ambulance, the doctors of which will decide on the hospitalization of the child.

If the baby has a very bad stomach ache in the epigastric region, and pain gives in the shoulder blades and shoulders, then this can talk about inflammation of the pancreas.

Symptoms supplement nausea and vomiting, sometimes jaundice and even shock are observed. Parents should urgently call an ambulance.

Pain around the navel and "under the spoon", which are repeated regularly, usually accompanied by inflammation of the stomach and duodenum. Pain, as a rule, occurs after eating and is accompanied by heaviness, raspiranie, acidic eructations.

In case of peptic ulcer, on the contrary, the pain intensifies, if the stomach is empty, and after eating decrease. Pain intensifies at night, and in the mornings often nausea. After eating, there may be vomiting, after which it becomes easier.

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If the child's condition is not severe, the ambulance can not be called, but it is absolutely necessary to consult a doctor in the polyclinic. The basis of treatment is the diet of the baby, in which he needs to eat often and slightly.

It is not necessary to feed the child with rough and fried food, sweets, smoked foods, sour fruits and berries.

For the first couple of weeks, you need to prepare the baby mucous soups, crushed gruel, dairy products, jelly. Over time, the diet expands.

If the cause of pain is infection with worms, then accompanied by a disease of violation of appetite, stool, weight loss. Sometimes in the feces worms are seen. What can you do in this case?

Mom needs to take the child to a doctor who will prescribe all the necessary tests and treatment. Therapy may contain medicines and folk remedies.

So, you can get rid of worms with the help of buds of wormwood.1 tsp. The herbs should be mixed with honey and given to the baby on an empty stomach.

After a couple of hours again give the child a dose of such medicine, but in the interval you can not eat. Then the child is given laxatives, which help to remove parasites from the body.

Another effective cure for worms is pumpkin seeds.100 g of seeds should be eaten on an empty stomach, and an hour later a glass of cooked with garlic milk. In half an hour you need to give the child a laxative that clears the intestines.

Sometimes parents notice that the belly starts to ache on quite healthy and active on weekends.

There may be several reasons for this state. So, the child just does not want to go to school or a garden, wants to attract the attention of the parents or simply imitates the behavior of the elders.

Often such pains accompany colic, nausea and vomiting, migraine, constipation or diarrhea, fever. The task of the parents in this case is to find out the cause of the child's behavior.

In some cases, parents will be able to solve this problem by themselves, but sometimes you need to seek help from a psychiatrist.

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If pain causes lactose intolerance, then it can be manifested by colic, diarrhea, vomiting. In this case, milk and all dairy products are removed from the ration of children.

To recognize pain in a child, especially if it's still a very tiny baby, is difficult. What can you do in such cases?

First of all, parents need to pay attention when and under what circumstances there were pains in the baby.

In addition, parents should not panic, but need to get together and help the doctor diagnose the child.