How to cure and prevent colic in a child?

Problems with the occurrence of colic with varying frequency, but still occur in almost all newborns. The period when colic in children are quite often occurs at 2-3 weeks after birth. Pass colic, usually after three months. The culprit is the immature digestive tract of the newborn. Accumulation of excessive amounts of gas leads to bloating.

How to understand that it is colic? At the child crying becomes sharp and piercing. Crying begins suddenly and more often at the same time. The kid blushes, presses his legs to his tummy. The tummy is firm to the touch, it boils.

In order for the child's colic to stop, it is necessary to find the cause of their occurrence.

Cause 1. During the feeding the child swallows the air

Solution. During breastfeeding, put the baby to the chest. The areola of your nipple should almost completely fill the mouth, not allowing access to air.

If your baby is on artificial feeding, make sure that the bottle does not get air during feeding. Perhaps the hole in the nipple has already stretched and it needs to be replaced with a new one.

Cause 2. Food is to blame

Solution. Perhaps the baby is sensitive to the protein of cow's milk. Together with the pediatrician replace the mixture.

Colic in infants is often associated with maternal malnutrition. Try not to eat those foods that you ate until the moment when the child's colic appeared.

Exclude cabbage, beans, raw milk, fresh apples, black bread, sugar, grapes, mushrooms from your menu.

Cause 3. The kid is too excited

Solution. Try to calm yourself and not be nervous, because your anxiety is passed on to the baby.

Perhaps, in this way, hormone progesterone, which affected the muscular activity of the child and his sleep, affected the mother.

Cause 4. The gastrointestinal tract is not developed enough, as a result of this, its spasms

What can be done if the baby's colic has started?

1. Rid the baby's stomach of excess air.

After feeding, be sure to hold the baby in an upright position, so that excess air is released.

During the day, before each feeding, lay the newborn on the tummy. This helps regurgitate excess air and strengthens the muscles of the neck and back. Spread the baby and on your stomach.

Lay the child on the ball for fitness belly down, dilute his knees in different directions and shake in a circle, in different directions. Be careful, hold the child's second hand at the back.

Colic in a child will pass if you just put the baby on the hand face down, head closer to you, tummy in the palm of your hand and shake it.

2. Treat with heat.

Warm the iron with a diaper, fold it four times and put the baby on the tummy. Take care that the diaper is not hot.

Make a bath for the baby with warm water.

3. Massage and gymnastics.

It will be easier for a baby if you make him a tummy massage. You need to stroke without pressing the liver region with soft circular motions. It is necessary to imagine the horseshoe around the navel with the ends down and massage it along the contour.

Bend and unbend the baby legs in the following ways:

• In the direction of the tummy, and when extending the two legs, perform a slight lifting of the glutes (it is sufficient to perform up to three times a day, in one approach up to 10 times);
• Alternately bending and unbending legs;
• Spreading the baby's arms to the sides, and then hugging his torso with his hands.

If the above methods are not enough or they are ineffective in your case, talk to your doctor. He will appoint your child a natural medicine that helps to reduce gas production.

In the pharmacy department for the manufacture of medicines, you can order dill water or, in other words, a solution of fennel oil.