Abdominal pain in a child often indicates bowel problems. If the child is still very small and cannot say anything, then he expresses dissatisfaction with anxiety, crying. Children can bend their legs to their stomach, twist them. It also happens that the kids groan, blush, push. The tummy is dense, slightly swollen, rumble and transfusion are heard from the inside. Abdominal pain in a child is the main cause of crying and sleep problems, therefore, with these symptoms, you need to consult not only a neurologist, but also a gastroenterologist.
Children have a stomach ache due to colic or gas congestion. This happens in most babies - because of the immaturity of the digestive system, enzymatic systems, and dysbiosis. Such phenomena are characteristic of almost all infants, therefore, healthy babies up to three to four months may experience anxiety due to pain in the abdomen.
Parents of many children up to a year are familiar with the problem of intolerance to milk sugar - lactose. Lactose is found in breast milk, the milk mixture. Lactose intolerance is provoked by a deficiency of lactase, an enzyme that breaks down lactose. Lactase deficiency is manifested as follows: loose, sometimes frothy stools, abdominal pain when feeding or after, bloating, with a severe form of lactase deficiency, children slowly gain weight or even lose it. This diagnosis is made after analysis of feces for carbohydrates.
You can also do an analysis for dysbiosis - this will help to find out how well the intestines work. Many digestive problems are eliminated with the correction of dysbiosis.
Parents should know some simple ways to help their baby on their own when their stomach hurts. Give him a special tea for children with fennel or chamomile, warm the tummy with a warm heating pad, do a gentle massage of the tummy clockwise, bend your legs to the stomach. Put the baby on his tummy, and if the above measures did not help, insert the so-called gas pipe into the anus (the trimmed pear may serve as a tube ). The tube can be in the anus for no more than 10 minutes.
There are a number of medications that are designed to relieve pain and promote the discharge of gases. What is best to give your baby, your doctor should advise you.
If suddenly the child screams for a long time and without stopping, and the use of a gas outlet tube does not lead to emptying, and at the same time you cannot reassure the child, you need to call an ambulance soon.
If preschoolers, complaining that their stomach hurts, point to the navel, this does not mean that it hurts there. The fact is that they can not yet localize the pain.
In children from one to four years, abdominal pain can be acute and chronic. If the pain appears sharply, the child can not get up, while he has a fever and feels sick - you should not give painkillers before being examined by a doctor. You need to call an ambulance or go to the hospital yourself. Acute pain can indicate, for example, appendicitis, intestinal obstruction. It should be noted that appendicitis in young children is rare, but if it does happen, then the pain is neither sharp nor severe. Well-being worsens over time.
Chronic pains appear and pass. Sometimes the pain is quite severe, sometimes pulling, sometimes the pain can pass a few minutes after the appearance. The causes of chronic pain are diseases such as pancreatitis, intestinal dysfunction , dysbiosis, persistent constipation, and parasitic diseases. If such pains occur - again, you need to see a doctor. He will prescribe the necessary tests to identify the cause of abdominal pain, and then individual treatment.
Do not be skeptical of a child’s complaints if he says that his stomach hurts. Be sure to go through the examination, and if the children complain of acute pain - you need to consult a surgeon. Agree, it would be better if in fact it turns out that there are no serious reasons for concern than if time is wasted and irreparable changes occur.