After birth, the baby in the gastrointestinal tract begins the active process of adapting the digestive system to food intake - breast milk or a mixture. As a result of this process, after about a month, almost all babies intestinal colic appears. They are caused by excessive flatulence and bloating.
Symptoms of intestinal colic occur most often during feeding a newborn or immediately after it. The child is squeezing his legs, weeping, blushing. Relief brings the baby only natural defecation and the removal of gases. In this situation, any mom wants to ease the suffering of her child. Time-tested remedy will come to the rescue - Dill water.
Dill water - a proven remedy for colic for babies
Dill water for newborns is a solution of fennel oil (0.1%). The people call fennel “pharmacy dill,” therefore, tincture from its fruits was called dill water. Children can be given dill water as an aid to get rid of intestinal colic almost from birth.
The modern analogue of dill water was the drug Plantex. It is made from fennel seed extract and is available in powder form. It must be dissolved in breast milk or water in the proportion specified in the instructions. You can use the drug from the second week after birth. ... read more ...
However, if the baby has other digestive symptoms in addition to intestinal colic, dill water will not help. For stool disorder (constipation, diarrhea), bloating and worsening appetite, you should consult a doctor.
What are the benefits of dill and dill water
Preparations based on dill and fennel have a huge number of useful properties:
- Cleanses the body from putrefactive formations and helps the development and cultivation of beneficial microscopic flora;
- Reduces and relaxes smooth muscle spasms;
- Helps to facilitate blood flow to almost all corners, dilates blood vessels;
- Expanding, reduces pressure on the intestinal wall;
- It is a diuretic;
- The body calms and relieves inflammatory processes;
- Stabilizes the work of the heart;
- With constant admission, it increases the passage in the bronchi, removes the resistance of the air flow entering the bronchi, and does not allow them to stagnate in the airways;
- When coughing dilutes sputum and promotes its withdrawal;
- Improves the secretion of bile;
- Improves appetite;
- Enhances lactation in the mother.
- It is a wonderful remedy for constipation.
- It has antibacterial properties.
- Improves kidney function.
- Soothes, has beneficial effects on the nervous system and sleep.
- ... and helps heal ulcers, all kinds of wounds and fractures.
Dill water perfectly copes with the removal of gases in infants by relieving spasm of the intestinal muscles. Its regular use will save the baby from pain and improve the digestion process.
The benefits of dill water for breastfeeding women have also been noted. increases lactation, normalizes digestion, has a mild sedative effect.
FOR MOM: If you drink half a glass of dill water about half an hour before the baby begins to feed, this will improve the composition of milk, increase its production and, possibly, eliminate the need to give a remedy for colic to the baby.READ ALSO: Dill for breastfeeding - benefits for mothers and babies
Dill water with childhood colic - Dr. Komarovsky
Buy or make dill water at home (recipe)
To buy ready dill water is quite problematic. You can buy it in pharmacies that have a prescription department, where they make drugs on the spot with a prescription. The price of dill water is on average 150 rubles per 100 ml.
But do not despair if there is no pharmacy with a prescription department nearby. In this case, you can buy "Plantex", which is prepared from the fruits of fennel or "pharmacy dill." It is sold in dry sachets. "Plantex" can be given to an infant from the age of two weeks, just from the time when the baby begins intestinal colic. Also, instead of dill water and Plantex, such medicines as “Sub simplex"And"Espumisan».
The recipe for dill water at home is very simple:
- Pour in a glass (250 ml) a teaspoon of dry, previously ground in a coffee grinder or blender, fennel seed.
- Pour in hot water.
- Let it brew for 40-45 minutes.
- Strain.
- Water should be added to the expressed milk / infant formula no more than one spoon and given to the newborn. For very young infants, from two weeks to a month you need to drip 15 drops per tongue. Keep a day.
You can prepare dill water using fennel essential oil. It is necessary to dissolve 0.05 g of oil in a liter of water. Such a solution can be stored in the refrigerator for about a month. Subsequently, it is warmed to room temperature before administration.
How to prepare dill water if there was no fennel?
Instead, you can simply use the seeds of ordinary dill:
- Dill seeds (1 tsp) pour boiling water (1 cup).
- Let it brew for an hour.
- Strain.
If you have fresh dill, you can make dill tea for the kids. To do this, pour one tablespoon of chopped dill greens with 100 ml of boiling water and leave for about an hour. Strain, cool and apply as dill water.
Water for the manufacture of any product must be taken purified, and all dishes before cooking are rinsed with boiling water. Babies up to a month are given only freshly prepared dill water.
Method and amount of dill water application
How to give your baby dill water depends on the method of feeding.
Children who are breastfed are given dill water from a spoon, and artificers can be poured into a bottle. Although the spoon is also the best way to take the medicine - it’s more convenient to dose dill water.
Take dill water before feeding the baby.
If the baby refuses to take a remedy for colic, you need to make his taste more familiar. To do this, before you feed the newborn with dill water, mix it with a small amount of expressed breast milk (adapted mixture).
The first initial dose of dill water is one teaspoon. Dill water should be given before meals, at first three times a day. It is necessary to carefully monitor the reaction of the baby. In the absence of negative symptoms in the child, the dosage of dill water is increased up to six times a day.
How much dill water to give with the growth of a child depends on his individual characteristics. If the digestion process has returned to normal, then dill water should be stopped, if not, continue. Closer to the first half of the year, the problem with intestinal colic ceases to be relevant. The kid has already adapted to a new life and his body copes well with the “processing” of milk.
On the topic of abdominal pain:
The recipe for dill water is simple and consists in the following: you need a glass of boiling water and 2 grams of fennel fruit - the so-called pharmacy dill.
Advice !!! give the baby breast dill water not from the spoon as they write everywhere and in the instructions for the drug, but from the papilla, since the baby cannot still recognize the spoon and, when the medicine is poured into it, can choke !!!!! !! Do not tempt fate!
When my second child was born, I did not suspect that such a delicate problem could arise. The child had chronic persistent constipation. That I just didn’t take it and gave more fruits and vegetables, and rubbed the beets, and fresh dairy products, but persistent constipation did not pass. Then I remembered that my eldest son was putting glycelax candles. Put a course of candles. Now we use it only when necessary.
I give dill vodka to my baby with a pipette, it’s very convenient.
please tell us 3 weeks we switched to the mixture because I have lost milk. now we have 3 days of constipation itself cannot poop current with an enema, what should I do?
Hilak forte helps very well