Treatment of abdominal cramps among children in Kharkiv

Abdominal cramps in nursing infants is a common problem with health of newborns. Pain sense of different intensity and duration in baby's stomach result in sleep loss, naughtiness, weeping and irritation. This notion is unpleasant and adults sometimes cannot understand the cause of baby's restless behavior. At the first suspicion on pain in stomach, it is necessary to consult a pediatrician. Only doctor can establish a cause of disease and prescribe the best treatment.

What is abdominal cramps?

Cramps are a painful syndrome occurred in abdominal region due to great accumulation of gases.

It may be caused by gut microflora disbalance due to different factors:

• development of visceral diseases;
• inadequate and untimely food intake;
• metabolic disorder.

Doctors also identify such initiating agents as prematurity, inflammations in the setting of infection, long administration of antibiotics, as well as artificial feeding and allergy. Sometimes cramps are caused by violation of feeding rules (air ingress to gastrointestinal tract).

What to do in case of abdominal cramps?

In order to detect abdominal cramps in a child, it is necessary to pay attention to the symptoms. First of all, baby's position indicates it – clinched fists, lower extremities pulled up to abdomen, the latter is hard (abdominal distention). Unwellness is also characterized by redness in facial region, meteorism and abnormal defecation (watery, sometimes with mucus). During feeding, baby possets frequently, is naughty and refuses to eat.

As a rule, baby can suffer from attacks both immediately after birth and during the second or third month. It can suffer from them both in the morning, evening and even at night. Should such problem arise, waste no time to visit a doctor (gastroenterologist, pediatrician) and refrain from self-activity to eliminate it. It can threaten with complications (rashes, constipations).

Who treats abdominal cramps?

Competent gastroenterologists work at pediatric department of the medical centre "ON Clinic Kharkiv "; they will help you to solve your problem. Upon examination of baby, doctor will provide you with recommendations regarding the best remedies: change of food ration and nursing position, massage, introduction of probiotics to menu (drugs containing beneficent bacteria) for normal intestinal activity. If required and by medical prescription, hot-water bag and warm bath may be used. Make an appointment to doctor using feedback form or by phone.