How to relieve baby’s bloated stomach?

In life, many babies have bloated stomachs. Babies have weak spleen and stomach, and a little stimulation may cause discomfort to them. The baby's bloated stomach may be caused by indigestion. Indigestion may occur when the baby changes milk powder or adds complementary food. The baby's bloating may also be related to the way mothers feed their babies. Many mothers will wait until their children are hungry for a long time before feeding them. This can cause great harm to the baby's stomach and intestines and can easily cause indigestion in the baby. So how do you relieve the gas when your baby’s stomach is bloated?

1. Abdominal massage

Massage your baby's abdomen clockwise one hour after a meal to promote your baby's intestinal motility. Do this several times a day. At the same time, be gentle with your technique.

2. Drink more warm water

Drinking warm water can help reduce the burden on your baby's stomach, liver and kidneys. It can not only relieve constipation, reduce the incidence of cerebral thrombosis and myocardial infarction, but also help you expel gas.

3. Home Care

It is also helpful to use wind-repellent oil on the abdomen and cover it with a warm towel. These help gastrointestinal motility and gas discharge to improve digestion and absorption function.

4. Diet therapy

Eat some digestive foods.

When your baby has a bloated stomach, you can adjust the diet by giving your baby some digestive foods or foods that are easy to digest, and try to eat small meals frequently until the symptoms of bloating disappear. In addition, avoid spicy foods. Sour foods such as hawthorn slices can aid digestion, and foods that strengthen the spleen and stomach include coix seed, red dates, yam, pumpkin, and potatoes.

5. Dietary taboos

Eat less foods that easily produce gas. For example, bean products contain sugars that cannot be digested and absorbed by enzymes in the gastrointestinal tract, but are easily fermented by colon bacteria. The lactose in milk cannot be completely absorbed, so you should eat less soybeans, red beans, sweet potatoes, chestnuts, peanuts, dairy products, beer, soda and other foods.

6. Eat a balanced diet

In daily life, parents need to reasonably match the food for their children, make it diverse, avoid the food being too monotonous, and the food should be easy to digest, so as to effectively prevent the baby's bloating symptoms.

Ways to prevent bloating

1. Breastfeed on time.

2. Pat your baby’s back after feeding

After feeding, gently pat your baby's back to promote burping and passing gas, reducing the likelihood of your baby developing gas.

3. Pay attention to the size of the bottle mouth

Be careful not to make the nipple hole too large and the bottle body not too tilted. Do not let the baby drink milk too quickly or too fast. This will reduce the amount of air entering the nipple and entering the body when the baby drinks milk.