Every baby must have experienced vomiting. Some experience it occasionally and some vomit at mealtime. As a parent, you do not need to panic when your child vomits. Even so you have to stay alert if this condition occurs.
Vomiting in infants can be classified as a normal reaction, but this can also be a sign that your baby is experiencing a serious condition.
Normal vomiting
Vomiting is a common thing experienced by babies, especially when he was still a few weeks old. At that age, babies are trying to adjust to food. This type of vomiting is often called spit up.
Usually the little one will spit up after drinking milk. After the Little swallow milk, milk will then pass through the back of the mouth, then down into the esophagus, and forwarded to the stomach. Between the esophagus and stomach, there is a muscular ring. This ring becomes the entrance of milk to the stomach. After milk enters the stomach, the ring closes.
However, if this ring does not close completely, milk can return to the esophagus, then spit up. In medical science it is called reflux.
At the age of only a few weeks, babies are susceptible to reflux because the size of the stomach is still small. At this age, the muscle ring can't work properly. Usually, the ring will grow strong when the baby is around 4-5 months old. At this time he may have stopped experiencing spit up.
In addition to the above, vomiting can also occur when the baby cries or coughs excessively. Chances are you will often see your child throwing up because of this in his first years.
Abnormal vomiting
Vomiting in babies who are not normal can be related to the health condition of the child. Here are some possible causes:
- Food poisoning.
- Viral or bacterial infections.
- Respiratory tract infections.
- Ear infection.
- Pneumonia.
- Appendicitis.
- Pyloric stenosis (the muscular ring between the stomach and intestine is too thick so it closes the pathway to the stomach and food cannot pass).
- Meningitis.
Signs that your baby has an abnormal vomiting include:
- Your baby's vomit is greenish yellow. This condition can be a sign that your baby has a bowel disorder.
- He looks very sick.
- Vomiting accompanied by swelling of the stomach.
- Vomiting more than once after suffering an injury. This might be a sign of a concussion.
- There is blood in the vomit. If it's only a little, you don't need to worry because it's normal. But if there is a lot or continuous blood, immediately take your child to the doctor
- He vomited violently and constantly.
- Accompanied by yellowing of the baby's skin and eyes. This condition can be a sign that your baby has jaundice or jaundice.
How to Overcome Vomiting in Infants
To deal with normal vomiting, you do not need to take him to the doctor or give special medicines. Just give him fluids to avoid dehydration. So you do not need to worry too much because normal vomiting usually will not affect the health condition of your child.
Two tips below you can try to minimize vomiting after your child drinks milk.
- After drinking milk do not immediately lay it in a baby's bed. You better carry it with your baby's body upright. Carry her around half an hour after feeding so the liquid can go down perfectly.
- Get used to burping your baby after consuming anything.
To deal with abnormal vomiting, you can take your child to the doctor for further treatment. As a first step, you can give it enough fluids, but avoid giving it fruit juice. Sometimes fruit juice can make matters worse, especially if your baby has diarrhea. Dehydration can also be prevented by giving liquid electrolytes or ORS. But giving ORS to infants must get approval from the doctor first.
In addition you can also put him to sleep if you experience vomiting on the way. Sleep might help calm the baby while eliminating the desire to vomit.
Give back intake after your child stops vomiting or when the condition of the stomach looks better. Even so, provide intake little by little. To find out more about normal and abnormal vomiting in infants, you can consult a doctor.
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