Eating too much food can easily accumulate in the stomach, making it difficult to digest and even causing diarrhea. Young babies often have delicate digestive systems and a higher chance of diarrhea. So, what should babies do if they accumulate food and have diarrhea? What foods can babies with frequent diarrhea eat to regulate their condition? Parents may want to learn about it with the editor.
What should I do if my baby has diarrhea due to food accumulation
The infant's digestive system is not fully developed, with low secretion of gastric acid and digestive enzymes, low activity of digestive enzymes, and unable to withstand significant changes in dietary substances and quantities.
Improper diet or feeding methods can cause diarrhea. If your baby has diarrhea, you can give probiotics or Chinese medicine to help digestion to regulate the intestinal flora and help digestion. You should pay attention to eating less and more meals, mainly light, so as not to increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract.
In addition, when a baby has diarrhea due to indigestion, you can boil some hawthorn malt water for the baby to drink. The effect is good, and the malt should be stir fried. 3-5 hawthorns are enough. Adding some brown sugar would be better.
Common symptoms of baby food accumulation
1. Poor food. In winter, when the baby's appetite is open, they should eat more than before, but recently it seems that they are not appetizing, their appetite has decreased, and they are not interested in food.
2. Restless at night, babies tend to roll around and twist their bodies, making it difficult for them to sleep soundly. Younger children may also experience crying while sleeping.
3. Babies who have a strong accumulation of food usually have a strange odor in their mouth, which is caused by a lack of stomach qi. Sensitive parents may notice this. The accumulation of food in the body can cause gastrointestinal disorders, making it difficult to digest and causing it to become sour, resulting in an unpleasant sour and putrid odor. At this point, if the mother approaches the child's mouth and nose, she can clearly smell the odor. Babies who accumulate food will also have more foul smelling feces than usual.
4. In the middle part of the tongue body, there is a thick tongue coating the size of a coin, or the entire tongue coating becomes thicker and greasy. Or perhaps recently, the baby's face suddenly turned very red.
The previous article introduced solutions and conditioning methods for babies with diarrhea caused by overeating. Novice parents may want to learn them to help their babies have a good digestive system and grow better. In addition, diarrhea should also consider diseases other than gastrointestinal problems, and be more vigilant to prevent accidents.
