What is the best food for babies with indigestion? What are the ways to relieve indigestion?

We all know that babies are relatively young, their bodies are still in the development stage, and their gastrointestinal functions are not yet perfect, so they often encounter various gastrointestinal problems. Indigestion is a very common symptom, and many babies will have indigestion. So what is the best way to treat indigestion in babies? Let's take a closer look!

What is the best thing for a baby to eat?

1. Food

Eating hawthorn can slightly relieve the symptoms of indigestion for babies. Hawthorn can aid digestion and help babies to have better bowel movements when they have indigestion.

If your child has food stagnation due to occasional overeating, you can try feeding your child raw hawthorn. If raw hawthorn is not available, you can use hawthorn slices from the pharmacy instead; or you can get some chicken gizzard lining from the pharmacy, grind it into powder and feed your child (3-5g at a time). If your child has severe food stagnation, in order to avoid the harm of long-term food stagnation to the body, it is recommended to see a professional Chinese medicine practitioner for comprehensive conditioning.

2. Chinese patent medicine

There are many over-the-counter medicines for treating food indigestion available in pharmacies, which can be taken according to the child's condition.

For patients with both deficiency and excess symptoms, they can take Baohe Pills (for simply overeating), Yueju Baohe Pills (for patients with bad mood), Feier Pills (for patients with fever due to food accumulation), and Zhishi Daozhi Pills (for patients with obvious constipation).

For deficiency syndrome, you can take Jianpi Pills, Ginseng Jianpi Pills, and Dashanzhao Pills.

In addition to the above eating aspects, patients are advised to maintain good eating habits, not overeating, do moderate physical exercise, and perform abdominal massage to promote digestion.

Tips:

When a baby has indigestion, it is usually during the period of gastrointestinal disorder. When the baby is young, the digestive system is not well developed. If the baby encounters indigestion, you must not let the baby eat randomly at this time. The baby should be fed with food that is easier to digest.

If your baby is not yet able to eat complementary foods, you should try to reduce the number of times you feed him/her, and the amount of milk you feed him/her each time should also be reduced accordingly.

Recommended recipes for baby food accumulation

1. Sugar-fried hawthorn

Ingredients: brown sugar, hawthorn

practice:

1. Take an appropriate amount of brown sugar and stir-fry it in a pot over low heat;

2. Add appropriate amount of pitted hawthorn and stir-fry for another 6 minutes until you smell the sweet and sour taste.

If your baby has symptoms of fever, you can use white sugar or rock sugar instead and give your baby a little after each meal.

2. Orange Cake Tea

Ingredients: Orange cake

practice:

1. Cut the tangerine cake into thin slices, put it into a teapot, pour in freshly boiled water, cover the teapot, and soak for 10-15 minutes.

Use one orange cake every day, brew it several times, and drink tea and eat the cake for 2-3 days.

3. Yam porridge

Ingredients: millet, yam

practice:

1. Peel the yam, wash it and cut it into pieces; wash the millet;

2. Add appropriate amount of water to the pot and bring to a boil. Then add millet and yam and boil over high heat. Then turn to medium-low heat and simmer into porridge.

In addition to adjusting the diet, massage can also be used to treat baby's indigestion. In fact, many children's problems can be quickly improved after massage. This is because children's acupoints are the most sensitive, and a slight stimulation will produce an effect.

What to do if your baby has food accumulation

If your baby has food accumulation, parents can do the following:

1. Tangerine peel and rock sugar water

Tangerine peel can promote digestion and absorption and stimulate appetite. To make it, boil two bowls of water with a whole piece of washed tangerine peel. After boiling, add a small piece of rock sugar (to neutralize the bitterness of tangerine peel). After boiling into a bowl of water, let it cool before giving it to the baby. However, babies under one year old are not suitable for drinking tangerine peel water.

2. Hawthorn Chicken Gold Water

Hawthorn and chicken gizzard lining water is the best recipe for eliminating indigestion. You can buy hawthorn and chicken gizzard lining water at the pharmacy, boil 6 hawthorns and 4 chicken gizzard lining water to drink. Because the taste is a bit strange, it is recommended to add a small piece of rock sugar, children may like to drink a little more, or go to the maternal and child store to buy the hawthorn and chicken gizzard lining finished product with better taste.

3. Massage your belly clockwise

When the baby has indigestion, parents can massage the baby's belly clockwise to promote gastrointestinal motility and digestion. The method is: use the warm palm of your hand to massage the baby's belly clockwise for 5 minutes.

4. Drink warm water

Babies should drink an appropriate amount of warm water every day, especially when they have food accumulation. Drinking warm water can promote metabolism, and urination can also excrete toxins from the body, and can also prevent fever caused by food accumulation in babies to a certain extent.

5. Keep doing outdoor sports

When the baby has indigestion, parents must insist on taking the child out for exercise every day. Taking a walk or playing on recreational facilities can promote gastrointestinal motility and help digestion. Sunbathing can also promote calcium absorption.