What if the baby hiccups
Hiccups are called persistent, involuntary repetitive short breath with a sharp narrowing of the diaphragm. In most cases, hiccups - this is a normal physiological phenomenon, peculiar to children and adults. If it causes discomfort, you can try to stop it, but before that first try to find out the reason.
There are two kinds of hiccups - long and episodic. The main causes of episodic hiccups in children are hypothermia, eating cold food, overeating, prolonged thirst or increased nervous irritability of the child. This hiccup does not require medical intervention. Ask your child to drink water, distract him with something. If a child has overcooled, give him drink warm tea, milk with honey, put poteplee.Horoshy way to stop hiccups - use deep breathing. Let the kid take a few deep breaths and hold your breath for 10-20 seconds. This will calm the phrenic nerve, and at the same time divert rebenka.Chasto episodic hiccup occurs in infants in the first months of life. Air when feeding into the stomach and causes colic and hiccups. Take the baby after a meal in his arms and hold it upright. After a few minutes the air come and hiccups disappear. The baby can hiccup from overeating overfeeding signs are abundant regurgitation. You can try to feed the baby more often but smaller portions. Also cause hiccups in babies can be profuse leakage of milk from the bottle or the mother's breast. At the same time the baby chokes, the diaphragm contracts and begins hiccup. In this case, you need to change the pacifier or feeding intermittently, periodically removing the nipple from his mouth kid. Do not try to save the child from the hiccups by scaring him. You will not achieve the expected result, and the baby to shatter the nervous system. With age, the child has all the bouts of hiccups will occur less frequently. Even if all of the above methods do not help, just wait, hiccups will soon be herself. The long, debilitating hiccups can be a symptom of organic origin. It is observed in lesions of the brain or spinal cord, with neuritis or squeezing of the phrenic nerve, diabetes and some infections. But these diseases in children are extremely rare. Most often prolonged hiccups children is a symptom of any of parasitic diseases - helminthic invasion, giardiasis. In the case of prolonged hiccups it makes sense to consult a doctor. It is necessary to examine the child, especially at helminthiases.