1 Mom's diet

In infants, the digestive system is very sensitive and vulnerable. Immature intestines can not yet produce enough enzymes that will break down the milk. The newborn is born with a sterile intestine, and it takes time for it to become populated with a normal intestinal flora. Having given birth to the baby, the mother needs to eat only the right and healthy food.

Just one new product in the diet can provoke a baby's flatulence. Therefore, until he turns six months old and if he is on natural feeding, the mother should follow several rules how to get rid of colic:

• to drink clean water in sufficient quantity;
• to eat in small fractions;
• to postpone for six months favorite delicacies and exotic fruits;
• dishes should be simple, from seasonal local products, freshly prepared;
• from protein products prefer lean varieties of meat, poultry, fish;
• from whole milk is better to refuse, and drink more sour-milk products without sugar and synthetic fruit supplements;
• requires the heat treatment of food by extinguishing, boiling, steaming or baking.

Colic in a newborn can cause carbonated drinks, legumes, fresh bread, desserts based on cocoa, cabbage, hot snacks, smoked foods and pickled products. Introducing a new product into your diet, the mother should be careful. It should be quite a bit.

2 Heat will help

Get rid of colic in newborns will help simple rules that must be followed after each feeding.

After the child ate, it needs to be lifted vertically, in a column. He will regurgitate excess air, which got into the stomach with milk. Colic is the result of increased gas production. Therefore, you can eliminate the spasm and pain by pressing the baby's belly to his own stomach. Heat, mother's belly, familiar and native smell will reassure the newborn.

You can get rid of colic with a baby's warmer, diaper or towel. Warm, but not hot hot-water bottle wrap with a thin diaper and attach to the tummy. You can take a diaper or a towel, warm it with an iron, lay it down in several layers and attach it to the tummy. Minus the method: the diaper quickly cools, and often it is necessary to warm it up.

It is better to use a heating pad. Only it will need to be filled not with water, but with salt or sand. They keep the heat longer in themselves, and they can be warmed comfortably and quickly in a microwave oven or oven.

From colic in the newborn can make or buy a special little buckwheat. It can be filled with cherry pits, buckwheat or barley husks. The upper cover is made of wool. Wool keeps the heat of the heated filler well.

To make it easier for mother and easily get rid of the newborn's nightly colic, the night before bedtime, the tummy is covered with a double bed sheet with a small pillow. To a night bout of spasm a terry compress will keep warm.

3 Gymnastics and massage

Get rid of colic massage. The toddler needs to put his tummy down and light stroking movements to walk on the back.

You can perform a simple finger massage. The kid should be undressed and lie on his back. The middle and index fingers make pressure below the navel to the right and left. After the fingers of both hands are located on one side of the navel. Light, circular movements of the fingers should move clockwise around the navel. The first circle on a small radius, the second on a larger radius, etc.

Well warns of colic gymnastics. The child is lying on the back. Mom takes it by the legs and alternately, bending in the knees, presses the legs to the tummy. You can bend both legs, press them to the tummy and move around the semicircle.

Usually, babies like this charge. But if the crumb begins to cry, the procedure is better to postpone. To relax the baby, it is useful to massage stroking movements not only the tummy and the back, but also the handles with legs. If you hold gymnastics 3 times a day, the baby will become more calm and will sleep well.

To prevent colic, an inflatable ball for fitness will help. The child falls on the ball with his belly. Mom, supporting the crumb, swings the ball to the right and left, back and forth. The elastic surface of the ball easily presses on the stomach and massages well.

4 Drugs that bring the result

The modern pharmaceutical market produces enough funds to stop or prevent colic of a newborn. Preparations based on simethicone:

1. Espumizan in the form of an emulsion. Recommended by the manufacturer for children from the first day of life. Take the emulsion before or after the feeding. There is no side effect of the drug.
2. Simplex Simplex in the form of a suspension. From colic in babies. Give the drug before or after feeding. It is possible to add the suspension to the adapted mixture.
3. A beanbag in the form of drops. Recommended for children from 1 month.

Simethicone-based preparations have a flavor additive. Usually babies tolerate these drugs well. But parents should be attentive and observe the reaction of the body. If the slightest signs of an allergic reaction appear, the drug is canceled.

Preventative tools are used:

1. Plantex. The main active ingredient is an extract of fennel seeds. Produced in the form of dry powder in bags. It is boiled water. Dill water or dill tea.
2. Baby Bab. The drug on a natural basis. Ingredients: dill seed oil, mint, anise.

Daddy water for your baby's mother can cook by herself. In boiling water, specially designed for babies, put a few dill seeds, boil for a couple of minutes, remove from heat, allow to stand and cool. Strained dill vodichka room temperature is ready for use.

In order for the intestine to function well, except for mother's milk or mixtures, the baby should drink water. Begin with 1 tbsp. L., gradually adding. In addition to the usual water from colic, you can give calming weak chamomile tea.

5 Prevention is very important

Every kid is unique. And every child's organism has its own individual characteristics. Therefore, no one can definitely recommend what is best for them. Parents should try, search and pick up something of their own. One tool is not suitable, you need to use another. And so on until there is a most suitable option.

Only complex approach works. We must make every effort to ensure that the regime of the day for the baby was organized and clear: feeding, walking, sleeping at the same time. Usually, intestinal colic begins at a newborn at a certain time of the day. But when the attacks increase, there is diarrhea or constipation, the appetite is gone and there is no gain in weight, it is better not to postpone and make an appointment with the district pediatrician. Perhaps a special examination is required.

Lactose insufficiency is a hereditary pathology. And if in the family there is someone with such a diagnosis, the likelihood that the baby will manifest itself is high. Breastfeeding, suffering from lactose insufficiency, milk is contraindicated. It is replaced by mixtures based on soya with fermented milk products.

Some diseases in babies can provoke colic. With the treatment of the underlying disease, colic will also be lost. If the baby is healthy, the attacks will be by 4 months. The stomach with the intestines will be sufficiently developed, the milk will be well processed, and the baby will become calmer.

But until then, colic and bloating are inevitable. Mom and Dad need to gain strength, to endure and survive these turbulent times.