Intestinal colic is one of the most urgent problems in the first months of a baby's life. Intestinal colic refers to abdominal pain associated with increased gas formation in the intestines of the child. This is due to the adaptation of the gastrointestinal tract of the newborn to new conditions of prenatal development. The child begins to show anxiety, which usually ends in rampant, prolonged crying. The first colic in newborns can appear 2 to 4 weeks after birth and usually disappears by 3 months. Colic occurs in completely healthy children who have a good appetite and normal development.
Tatyana Prokofieva (pediatrician, candidate of medical sciences, mother of three children), talks about intestinal colic:
Symptoms of colic
- Unreasonable anxiety of the child;
- The breastfed presses the legs to the tummy, which indicates cutting, cramping pains in the stomach or intestines;
- It screams piercingly for several hours, almost always in the late afternoon, although the child had a good appetite throughout the day and was healthy;
- Sometimes releases gases;
- Pallor may appear;
- Crying and anxiety of the baby begin shortly after feeding;
- A sign of food intolerance is frequent green mucous stools (or, conversely, constipation).
Causes of occurrence
- Incorrect feeding technique for babies when a baby swallows air with milk. (how to breastfeed);
- If the baby is on artificial feeding, the bottle should be at an angle of up to 45 °, so that air accumulates at its bottom;
- Overfeeding. Consuming large amounts of milk can cause gas in the stomach and regurgitate. In this case, it is better to feed the baby more often, but in small portions;
- Unsuitable mixture (cm how to choose the right mixture);
- Wrong diet of a nursing mother;
- Colic is more common in children if the nursing mother smokes.
ATTENTIONif a nursing mother drinks teas containing fennel, caraway seeds, lemon balm, anise, then colic in infants can be avoided altogether! Keep this in mind!
Colic causing foods
It is better to exclude a nursing mother who is breast-feeding a child from her diet:
- Cabbage;
- Dishes with seasoning;
- Corn
- Cow's milk and some dairy products;
- Onion;
- Tomatoes
- Nuts
- Products containing caffeine;
See the article on nutrition and what you can eat a nursing woman – read article
If the occurrence of colic is associated with the listed products, then after the mother stops using them, colic pass 1-2 days after their exclusion.
Help with colic
With colic, a newborn child will be helped by the following methods that parents can do at home without consulting a doctor:
- Before each feeding, the baby should be laid on a firm, even surface on the tummy;
- Keep the baby upright after feeding and wait until he burps;
- Make a warm compress from an ironed diaper. Heat the diaper with an iron and tie a baby’s belly around it. This grandmother's method is very effective during acute bouts of colic in infants;
- Also, mothers can put a hot diaper on their belly, and from above, on a heated diaper, put the baby tummy down. IMPORTANT! The diaper should not be scorching hot, otherwise you just hurt the baby;
- Massage the tummy of the baby with light clockwise movements;
Hold it with your tummy to your chest;- During the occurrence of colic in the baby, put the baby on his back and press his hand to his tummy;
- After feeding, let's dill water;
- You can give your child tea with fennel (teas can be given starting from the first month);
- Remove gases gas pipe;
- If intestinal colic worries infants on artificial feeding, we recommend that you try to replace the mixture;
- Use medications as directed by your doctor (list of cures for colic).
- Do tummy massage to your child.
When will pass
Despite anxiety and anxiety, parents need to understand that colic and gas are common in newborns, and 3-4 months it will passbecause By this time, the digestive tract of the child will be already developed quite well.
We also read:
- Gazikah in infants
- Colic in a child: 10 common misconceptions
- Why does a baby have a tummy ache
- Special warming belt for colic for newborns
Massage against colic or how to help your child
Video: how to help a child with colic
Good article, it is very useful for young mothers, and I went through this. In our case, I gave ESPUMISAN, BOBOTIK, PEDI WATER and did the above methods - it helped us!
Colic is our problem since birth, from the first actually week. Suddenly, there it was. The baby suffers, suffers. On the advice of doctors we do massage - it helps. I do not want to give pills. The heating pad is also not practiced yet. I will exclude cabbage from my diet, I will revise the feeding process, maybe it really swallows a lot of air?
Thank you for the article. For us now this topic is very relevant. I hope that together we can solve it.
And the older I inserted a special tube in the ass (sold at the pharmacy), so that the gaziks departed. Helped very well! And no pills needed ...
What to do if the child does not sleep normally during the day
Svetlana, here is the link to the article https://kid.htgetrid.com/en/razvitie-rebenka-do-goda/novorozhdennyiy-rebenok-ploho-spit-dnem-pochemu-i-chto-delat.html
The most interesting thing is that colic is common among both girls and boys. And I only understood this about the birth of Masha! Here is a manual child, cried for about a month, nothing helped !! But then everything went away, and we began to smile often!
The article is excellent. It is only necessary to clarify the technique of massage so as not to wind up too much. and simethicone and drugs with it are allergic. Canceled. Allergy passed. Do not rush to change the mixture. Only after analysis. Ask your doctor for prescription tests. Health to all!
And massage helps us from colic. The article is very useful, thanks! Doubted about tea, but now try it too! Thank you so much!!
Everyone has a different reaction to simethicone. I gave my son, and now I give my daughter. It depends on the manufacturer because an allergy to supplements happens and not to simethicone itself. And they are all different. We went through this with my son. Not an allergy, but that wasn't all. While they found their own. I gave and give. They have no allergies. My daughter is already two and a half months old, almost from birth colic is creepy. One massage and a vent tube is not necessary, a bath helps, but without a bobot, it’s not so. My son experienced colic by three months. I hope my daughter will be no longer.
We, too, have been tormented with gaziki from birth. It turns out that Caesar’s Pts often. in the hospital yelled where is your espumisan ?! bought it. sprinkled, I think from a banana flavor. re-read the composition and the vaunted espumisan and bobotika. In Espumizan, I generally found the forbidden dye e110 (it is definitely forbidden in the Americans as well in some Europeans). already at home, our pediatrician said to take our leaflax, it goes without dyes and aggressive flavors and is made with us, therefore it is cheaper. in general, who has problems with sprinkling - try. with everything you need to try, and massage and diet, and not overfeeding, it helped us. good luck to all.
Liflax? I've never heard before. This is something new? I would not risk it. There are proven drops on simethicone sub simplex, espumisan and bobotik. Liflax contains the food preservative E211 which is included in the list of dangerous ones. I don’t see any reason to test on children some unknown drug about which there is almost no information. Once again, we were fine with the bototics. Sneaa on a sub complex of two raised. And no experiments! My daughter's colic is over! I think to go for the third :)
First I gave bifidumbacterin, then with it bobotik, like dill water, I drank it myself, did a massage, then bought a ball. There were colic anyway! The sister with one bobotic trouble did not know with the tribe. And nothing helped her friend at all. Mine, at least for a while, was quiet and screaming in the evenings for up to three months, they could not calm her down. All the kids are different, that's for sure!
My son generally had some strange colic for the first two months. Day two calmly then in the evening at nine o’clock how to charge yell nothing can be reassured. The first month dripped Espumisan on such days. It seems to help. And a half completely stopped. I switched to Plantex and the same thing. Three times the norm then does not help. They went to the pediatrician and tested when they doubted that it was generally colic. They didn’t find anything. Until three months I tried to give seven or eight different means. I returned to Espumisan, more precisely, to him, but only with a different name Bobotik (different manufacturers simply). And on the advice of her sister she began to give activated charcoal. Only then it was released!
An excellent tool for children drops Bebinos suffering from colic. I was pleased with its use, having tried several different drugs at the same time, Bebinos was the most effective, finally my daughter began to fall asleep and wake up in a good mood. It works very well, the result is not long in coming; literally 15-20 minutes after administration, the child begins to enjoy life. Manufacturer Germany, which also pleases, while the price is not sky-high, but the benefits are great. We gave 3 times a day, 4-5 drops, diluted in a teaspoon with water and gave directly from a spoon. Bebynos is a good help for your babies with colic.
In my case, the eldest daughter was helped by Rela Life drops, when it seemed that nothing would ever help us. The youngest son immediately began to give the same drops, he did not suffer from colic.
The article is very good, we tried almost everything from the described. But in relation to her child, she realized that bobotics and strong mother's arms help.
Unfortunately, what colic we know firsthand ((Our baby was very tormented, and we were with him. We cried constantly, but we did not know how to help him. They also gave dill water and a massage therapist. Nothing really helped, everything the doctors referred to age, “shouting”, etc. .. And when his son became a little older, it turned out that he had dysbiosis.
We were just actively starting to give different foods and decided to try to make him a sour-milk product based on Bifidum sourdough from Bakzdrav. We just love the whole family to drink their yoghurts, cook kefir and even cottage cheese at home. These products are very tasty and healthy.
We trust this company, therefore we also decided to order Bifidum for the baby. He eats well - it is evident that he liked it to his taste) The pediatrician also approved, said that the kids are actively forming their own microflora. And such starter cultures really help in this. Plus it is also a natural product without any preservatives, because even children's yogurts and cheeses from the supermarket are not 100% safe, as it seems to me.
In general, the child began to feel better, sleeps calmly at night, there is improvement. Therefore, we will continue to give Bifidum further.
We also have colic, only we are 5 years old, I don’t even know what to do. The article says that you need to go to the doctor, and I'm afraid that they will force him to swallow the tube, sorry for his son, very much. Maybe somehow in another way you can solve the problem?
Some mad mothers in the comments! And many are brainless, if even before the birth of the baby they have not mastered the list of gas-forming products.
These are all legumes, whole cabbage, apples, melon, barley, beets, dried prunes and simply plums, raisins.
Coffee has nothing to do with it. It affects the lack of sleep in the baby. Green tea - likewise, hibiscus - too.
Milk also has nothing to do with it; allergies to it often occur, and not colic. Nuts are the same trouble.
All dill water, teas with fennel and other crap are also about nothing.
Ingestion of air during feeding leads only to regurgitation, these gases do not pass further into the digestive tract.
Colic is a gas in the intestines. We fight with gases not when they have already appeared, but we prevent.
Those. We strictly control the diet of a nursing mother.
And do not try to shove gas pipes into a child! Injury occurs very easily.
Children are able to release gaziki themselves, it is enough to massage the tummy (and not just to stroke it. Go to the school, we were shown and told everything very well in the office of a healthy child), and then bend your knees.
I gave baby calm from colic, there is dill, anise and mint oil. he also helps with gas formation.first dilute according to the instructions in the vial, and then 10 drops each can be added to a bottle of milk well or watered from a spoon