Many parents will find that their babies sometimes involuntarily retching, especially when eating or taking medicine, they will experience very serious dry retching.
The phenomenon of dry retching in babies may occur from dozens of days to a few years of birth. If this dry retching is just a small amount, this is a normal situation, and parents don’t have to worry too much.
But if this happens frequently, such as the number of dry retching times a day is more than four times or lasts for one or two weeks, then parents need to pay attention and take their children to the hospital for treatment if necessary to avoid affecting their health.
dry retching means that the baby feels uncomfortable in his throat but cannot vomit out due to various reasons. In other words, dry retching is the sound and movement of vomiting, but there is no food to spit out, or only saliva and sputum to spit out.
causes the baby to retching, such as: improper eating, dry environment, abnormal gastric digestive function, inflammation of the throat, imperfect functional development of the lower esophageal sphincter, etc.
First, it is feeding or eating improperly:
The baby's stomach capacity is very small and the stomach function is not fully developed, so for babies under one year old, don't feed too much at a time, and you need to pick it up and burp it after breastfeeding.
For babies over one year old, pay attention to health and hygiene. Do not give children some raw foods, such as drunk shrimp sashimi.
The second is environmental factors:
The weather is dry, and the dry throat can also cause nausea and retching. At this time, you can feed your baby more water, and at the same time, you can install a humidifier in your baby's room to increase indoor humidity.
Third, diseases in digestive function:
If the baby suffers from upper respiratory tract infection , throat inflammation, bronchitis , pneumonia and other diseases, it may cause dry retching due to local stimulation.
Fourth is mental factors:
Some children may also cause symptoms such as nausea, dry retching, etc.
Five is to inhale air:
The baby has dry retching, and it may be that the baby inhales gas, causing irritation symptoms in the throat.
As the baby continues to grow up, this symptom will gradually improve or disappear, so try to avoid the baby inhaling gas while eating, which can also prevent dry retching.
6. Is the development of imperfections:
Some babies are still young and the muscle function at the lower end of the esophagus is incomplete, causing gastric juice or bile to flow back to the esophagus and cause dry retching. This situation disappears after some babies develop gradually after several months.
So, what should I do if my baby retching?
First, pay attention to your diet.
Replenish the baby with warm water and develop regular eating habits. Try to be light and eat less irritating, difficult to digest or raw and cold foods.
The second is to participate in sports appropriately.
Participating in sports can strengthen the baby's gastrointestinal motility, improve the blood circulation of gastrointestinal tract , increase the secretion of gastric digestive fluid, promote food digestion and nutrient absorption, and enhance the baby's ability to metabolize in .
The third is to reduce finger sucking.
If the baby sucks his fingers before going to bed, parents can let the baby hold the toy before going to bed, divert the baby's attention or hold the baby's hands together, and sleep with the baby, reducing the number of times the baby sucks his fingers.
Fourth, eliminate psychological barriers.
For nausea and nausea caused by neuropsychiatric factors, psychotherapy is the key. First, the child's mental and psychological disorders should be eliminated, so that dry retching will disappear naturally.
If you find that the baby frequently retching, growth and development are delayed, or accompanied by abnormalities such as loss of appetite, diarrhea, mental depression, fever, etc., consider gastroesophageal reflux disease, or pyloric obstruction, and other gastrointestinal problems, it is recommended to take the baby to the hospital for treatment, check for abdominal color ultrasound, and perform digestive tract angiography if necessary to clarify whether there are abnormal development of the digestive tract.
has many diseases that cause nausea and vomiting. Therefore, parents should not blindly use drugs before knowing the cause, otherwise it will affect the judgment and delay the treatment of the disease. Only after clarifying the cause of the disease can the right medicine be given, so that the child can truly recover from health.
