How to take care of children with indigestion? How to take care of children with indigestion?

How to care for children with indigestion

1. For infants, it often manifests as regurgitation of milk. Older children often vomit, which is generally not serious and the vomit has a sour taste.

2. Children have loss of appetite, abdominal distension, and hyperactive bowel sounds. You can even hear the stomach "gurgling" without a stethoscope.

3. Bad breath. When milk and food stagnate in the upper abdomen, bad breath often occurs first, especially bad breath and sour breath in the morning are manifestations of milk and food stagnation, clinically known as high food stagnation. When this phenomenon occurs, you can reduce or stop eating to promote the recovery of gastrointestinal function.

4. Stool smells bad. When a small amount of food residue is not digested, although it is not diluted, it is a sign of food leakage. At this time, the amount of food should be reduced immediately and adjusted to avoid diarrhea.

How to prevent indigestion in children?

1. Feeding quantitative feeding. Let children develop good eating habits from an early age so that their internal organs can adapt better. Older children should be encouraged to develop the habit of eating automatically.

2. Overcome partial food intake and pay attention to the comprehensiveness of nutrition. The combination of meat and vegetables should be appropriate, and overcome the bad habit of eating mainly snacks. Avoid strong irritating foods such as strong tea, coffee, wine and spices, peppers and mustard.

3. Pay attention to maintaining the child's appetite. Because eating is most beneficial only when you have an appetite. In order to maintain the child's good appetite, we must pay attention to the eating environment not being too noisy, not to mention eating while watching TV; be careful not to force eating or strictly restrict the child's diet; do not eat candy before meals; avoid the child eating too tired or nervous; the color, aroma and taste of the food should be attractive.

4. Pay attention to keeping your abdomen warm, avoid exposing your gastrointestinal tract to cold stimulation, and try to reduce respiratory tract infections.

5. Pay close attention to keeping the digestive tract unobstructed and develop the habit of regular bowel movements.

6. Pay attention to hygiene, cultivate the habit of washing hands before meals, pay attention to clean and fresh food. Eat more easily digestible food, avoid fried and other difficult to digest food, and eat while reading.