Almost all babies and their parents go through problems with the tummy, increased gas and colic. For parents, this becomes no less difficult test, because a newborn child screams desperately and does not calm down for a long time. Perhaps it is impossible to completely rid the child of colic, since this phenomenon is characteristic and even normal for the baby’s immature intestines. However, it is worth trying to alleviate the condition at least a little. In this case, in addition to the usual home methods of ridding the baby of colic Plantex drug for newborns can help.
What is this drug
Plantex is a granular herbal preparation based on fennel. Fennel fruits, like dill and anise, are very beneficial for digestion. They are able to increase the secretion of gastric juice, increase intestinal motility, and for newborns they are useful for their carminative properties. In other words, they improve the outflow of gases and relieve tension on the intestinal walls, thereby bringing relief. The active components of Plantex are dry water extract of fennel fruits and fennel essential oil, the rest are excipients.
Plantex granules are packaged in sealed bags of 5 g. Such bags can be purchased individually (in some pharmacies), or you can buy a package of 10 or 30 bags.
How to give
One sachet is one dose of the drug. Preparing a solution for drinking, according to the attached instructions, is very easy, much easier than dill water. Granules from a bag dissolve in 100 ml of warm boiled water - and the drink is ready.
A child up to a year is enough one dose of Plantex per day. Prepared 100 ml of the solution are divided into 2-3 doses. If the baby sucks only breasts and is not accustomed to the bottle, it is better to give Plantex from a soft spoon or from a syringe.
Toddlers react differently to such a drink. Someone easily drinks the entire proposed volume, someone does not like the taste of the solution at all. In this case, parents should weigh all the pros and cons of this method of dealing with colic: if the use of Plantex brings relief to the baby, then it makes sense to go to tricks to give the baby water to the solution. If the effect is close to zero, and even the child is not enthusiastic about drinking - you should not insist.
Cons and contraindications
Plantex, although a herbal preparation, has contraindications. The fennel extract or essential oil in a newborn baby may be allergic. Also, Plactex solution should not be given to children with lactose deficiency and galactosemia and with impaired glucose absorption.
For breast-fed babies, Plantex has one more minus: drunk 100 ml of solution per day will supersede the same amount of breast milk that the baby could receive, because the capacity of his gastrointestinal tract is still very limited.When lactation is not yet established, such an unequal replacement can become critical.
Efficiency
After all the above, parents probably care about the effectiveness of Plantex, because there are a lot of drugs for colic (here we have compiled a list of the most popular cures for colic), but I want the effect as soon as possible. Unfortunately, Plantex does not have absolute effectiveness. In this matter, it all depends on the characteristics of the baby’s body and its sensitivity to the components of the drug. Perhaps the same fennel extract, but in a different dosage form (suspension, drops) will be more effective.
To find out how Plantex will be effective in the case of a particular baby can only be experienced. That is why, if possible, it is better to purchase sachets piece by piece for the first few applications.
It is believed that instead of the baby, Plantex can be drunk by the mother, and its components through breast milk will also achieve the goal. This is not entirely true, because the "processed products" of the active substances of this drug will get into breast milk, and their concentration will be much lower.
You can leave your comments about the medicine in the comments.
Colic suffered a nephew. The granules were not very effective, but the suspension helped. They did not understand why such an effect, the composition seems to be the same. Well, the main thing that helped.
many of my friends gave their babies Plantex, I gave, maybe a couple of times. But more often I gave babynos, I won’t say that these drugs (additives) on herbs helped a lot, the baby woke up all the same at night and cried for up to three months, then somehow it by itself passed.
Immediately after birth, my boy began to suffer, he was very worried about the tummy. Of course, I immediately attributed everything to colic, and of course I gave Plantex every time I fed. But it turned out he just had problems with stools, it was hard to empty his intestines, very poor intestinal motility. Glycelax candles helped us a lot. Probably we are tormented because the baby was on artificial feeding, I didn’t have milk. We insert candles twice a day, now everything is fine.
And we faced constipation about a month after birth. Probably almost every mother knows what kind of problem it is and how hard it is to look at the baby when the jeeps cannot go out and the baby cannot independently cope. I sent my husband to the pharmacy, brought glycelax candles, since the familiar pharmacecept worked at the pharmacy that day, she won’t advise anything bad. The effect did not have to wait long!
It happens that we don’t sleep at night, baby, poor, crying and crying ((Doctor recently Glycelax wrote out, now it’s become much easier :)) All the masses come out faster, and honestly, it became easier for us parents. We tried decoctions to drink.it is useless, it seems to be good at first, and then the same thing starts again. Once again tired of tormenting the child with his experiments.