HOW TO RELIEVE THE NEWBORN OF INTESTINAL COLIC (INTESTINAL GASES)

For deliverance the newborn from gases:

- CORRECT A DIET OF MOTHER

The diet of the feeding should be with the lowered maintenance of dairy products as sour cream, cream, milk chocolate, whole milk, acid-forming products and gas-forming products - such, as bean, black bread, cake,  garlic, liquorice, a peanut, hot dogs, an onions, tomatoes, kvass (and sometimes a nut, sweets, grapes, bright southern fruits: oranges, apples, pears, a water-melon) 

- AVOID DEGLUTITION AN AIR

Newborn children during feeding can swallow an air therefore later the stomach of the baby begins distend. If at suck the giving “kiss” sound is distributed, means, the child badly took a breast. Take out a nipple from its mouth and enclose correctly, together with a nipple round circle. At artificial feeding, it is necessary to pick up a small bottle correctly.

- AVOID LONG CRYING OF THE NEWBORN

Long crying sometimes leads «deglutition» an air that in turn causes a problem with gases.

- LOWER VOLUME AND TO INCREASE FREQUENCY OF FEEDINGS.

Great volume of milk, at one feeding can cause infringement of digestion.

- SOFT MASSAGE OF A BABY’S STOMACH

Clockwise massage with easy stroking movements round a navel and having put on heated diaper, to stroke on a back;

Put the baby on a back, take his legs and bend the legs of the baby so that its knees touched on a stomach. In the beginning, it is necessary to bend legs alternately, then to carry out movements by both legs simultaneously

- CHANGE POSITION OF A BODY THE BABY

Make it some times - put the kid on one flank, after a minute - on another, then return in former position

- PUT BABY ON YOUR STOMACH

Warmly parent body, and, the main thing, curative positive impulses of your organism, can calm the baby.

- PUT A GASES PASSAGE TUBULE

Baby’s bottom and the tubule end grease with vaseline, hold the legs lifted to a stomach, enter a tube carefully on 5 - 7mm. Hold 5 minutes. The tubule can be made of a usual children's enema, cutting off a bottom.

- DO HEAT BATHS (IT IS BETTER WITH A LAVENDER)

- SING A LULLABY FOR THE NIGHT, IT IS GOOD TO ROCK TO SLEEP THE BABY

- SWADDLE

- DISTRACT THE BABY WITH WALK IN A CARRIAGE,

- ALLOW TO DRINK WATER (NOT SWEETENED)

- GIVE DILL (FENNEL) WATER

Give fennel waters at first from 2-3 times a day and gradually up to 6 times. Usually the improvement comes within 15-20 minutes.

- GIVE BROTH FROM ROOTS OF PARSLEY, SEEDS OF FENNEL OR LEAVES OF A BLACK CURRANT.

20g raw herbs on a cup of water cook thirty minutes on a water bath. Then filter and cool. 30-40 minutes prior to feeding give to the baby as fennel water manner.

- GIVE THE ACTIVATED COAL.

Pound an activated coal tablet; fill in tbsp of hot water. It is possible to give the formed cooled mix in two steps, before meal, (the stool will be black - not frightened! The activated coal is harmless)

- GIVE AN ENEMA WITH CAMOMILE BROTH

(A tsp of herb - on a water glass), or simply, with warm water. (It is not necessary to apply regularly)

- GIVE PLANTEX FOR NEWBORNS.

Normalizes passage of gases and improves intestines motility. “Plantex” has a vegetative basis; therefore, it can be applied early enough - to baby since 2 weeks of life.

 

     It is not necessary to panic, if baby has intestinal colic. It is necessary to reserve patience and to be ready not to sleep at the nights up to 3 months.

 

At retching a fountain after each feeding or at frequent indigestions (liquid or too dense stool or a stool from 6 to 12 times a day), the qualified medical aid it is necessary!!!