Baby Jet Vomiting: Treatment and Remedies
The term jet vomiting of the newborn baby, along with 'regurgitation' and 'gastro-oesophageal reflux' is one of the most sought after by new parents.
This happens when the child suffers from gastrointestinal disorders more or less marked.
But what is jet vomiting, why does it occur, what to do when the child projectile vomiting after feeding and, above all, how to help your child be well?
Baby Jet Vomiting: What is it?
The term jet vomiting implies that the infant, after feeding or at a distance, suddenly regurgitates a substantial amount of milk.
Vomiting may be associated with crying, irritability and digestive difficulties and gastrointestinal disorders (gastroesophageal reflux e gaseous colic).
When the child vomits in a jet, it is important to report it immediately to the paediatrician so that he can ascertain that there are no pathological problems.
Baby jet vomiting: when to worry
The vomiting of the newborn baby is in most cases a problem that, although it may be more or less annoying, does not endanger your baby's growth.
However, sometimes vomiting can become a alarm bell implying more serious problems.
For example, in some cases the vomiting is extremely consistent and is associated with serious difficulties such as weight loss, inconsolable crying, refusal of food, jet vomiting or vomiting with traces of blood.
In such cases, the vomiting may be based on the pathological conditions which require further investigation and specific treatment (e.g. pyloric stenosis).
When vomiting and reflux are particularly persistent and not responsive to classic infant therapies, one tends to speak of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease.
Jet vomiting, regurgitation and gastro-oesophageal reflux
Vomiting e regurgitation of the newborn child, often referred to as physiological gastro-oesophageal reflux (term implying that despite everything the child grows), consist of the upflow of milk from the stomach into the oesophagus resulting in vomiting.
When the vomiting is mild we talk about regurgitation of the newborn child. It may be more or less frequent between feedings (e.g. 1-3 vv between feedings, or 1-2 times a day) and may be more or less abundant in terms of quantity of regurgitated milk.
When the vomiting is moderate or profuse, there is talk of vomiting (sometimes, jet).
It too may occur once or several times between feeds but, in general, is sporadic (otherwise they could be a symptom of more serious problems).
Cures and remedies
Once the paediatrician has excluding more serious problems and made a diagnosis of physiological reflux, one can (and should) put numerous precautions into practice to help the child.
I remedies for jet vomiting, the regurgitation and the reflux gastro-oesophageal infant are numerous; Let me explain.
Since the parameters that irritate the stomach and the infant's intestines are severalneed to evaluate them and improve them all for effective results.
Parameters to be evaluated and resolved
Here are the factors to be improved to solve gastro-intestinal problems:
- If the child is breastfed, it is essential to investigate and improve thematernal nutrition;
- If the child is artificially breastfed you have to consider how the milk is offered, the type of bottle, and more...
- One must always assess the mobility of the thoracic diaphragm (located just above the stomach) and the pelvic one In fact, these play an important role in the gastric emptying and intestinal peristalsis. Very often there are severe limitations in children suffering from reflux caused by intrauterine malpositions or difficult births;
- The presence of objective tension of the gastric smooth muscle that create pain in the child. This can be noticed by palpating the child's abdomen at the stomach and assessing the visceral and ligamentous tensions.
- The presence of any intestinal smooth muscle tension which could slow down the transit and encourage milk to stagnate in the stomach and rise. It is imperative to improve intestinal transit to encourage gastric emptying; the gastro-intestinal system is a single tube.
- The presence of neck and back contractures that might annoy the child and make him irritable.
In fact, many children with reflux and regurgitation tend to arch your back. This is not because of reflux, but it is the contractures in the back that, in conjunction with gastric pain, manifest themselves overtly.
The proof of what I am saying is that very often these children also tend to arch during the day or during sleep at night, by lying on your side or turning your head sideways to 90 degrees. - many other parameters that you will find in the video course ''Treatment and prevention of gaseous colic and gastro-oesophageal reflux''.
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