The Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments of Colic Baby
Baby is a gift from God that can make family happy. It is because the baby will be coloring family’s life with crying and laughing. Both of them are the ways that the baby can do in the world to express their feeling. However, many people will pay more attention to babies’ crying than their laughing. It is not about their laughing is not important in babies’ lives, it is just because their crying will make you think many kinds of interpretation of the babies. Babies crying can be caused because of many reasons. One of them is because of pain. The most pain that is often suffered by babies is colic baby. Here is the explanation about colic baby.
What Is Colic Baby?
If you are a new parent, then you have to prepare if your baby suddenly wakes up in the middle of the night and cries. If our baby does not want to give breastfeeding, then you will be confused when your baby continues to cry. Your baby will cry frequently and for more than a few minutes. You will hear your baby cries with moaning. It will make you worry. It is because you do not know about the reason why your baby cries. When you tell about it to your parents or friends, probably they will tell you that your baby suffers colic baby. What is colic baby?
The term “colic” comes from the Greek “kolikos”. It means “suffering in the colon”. Based on this meaning, colic baby that is also known as infantile colic is a suffering in the colon that is happened to the baby. It is a condition that is suffered by healthy baby suddenly. Therefore, many researchers say that colic baby is not a well-understood condition. Besides that, it has no discernible reason.
Colic baby is the worst pain that is experienced by the baby. It is most common pain that will be suffered of newborn or babies lives. It attacks baby’s colon. Some researchers say that it includes acute abdominal pain with intense spasmodic cramping. Colic baby cannot be described what distresses the baby. It is because adults cannot see the reason. They only can hear baby crying. Of course, it can make then confused what things to do.
Colic baby can be suffered by healthy newborn or several weeks old baby. It will come to your baby in the first month of the baby life until before the baby is 3 or 4 months old. However, some babies suffer colic baby last up to 12 months life. It will torture them. The baby will cry, cramp, and moan to restrain the pain. It will occur for more than minutes, hours, days, and even weeks. It shows period intense. It is because the pain will suddenly come to your baby. After that, it will disappear suddenly. Then, it will come again. It will repeatedly occur in several weeks. Of course, it will make your baby suffers.
The Cause of Colic Baby Symptoms
According to the definition, colic baby is a bad condition of healthy baby that occurs in the colon. Therefore, many researchers and doctors say that it can be caused by stomach gas, intestinal gas, neurological overload, and even a muscular type of colic. Actually, so many reasons that can make baby suffer colic. However, the forth of them are the main causes that are much closed with the colic baby symptoms.
Colic baby is hurting baby very much. It is because babies cannot tell you how they feel. They only can cry and moan. Therefore, you have to know about colic baby causes in order that you can understand why baby cramps and moans (though you cannot really understand their pain). Stomach gas occurs because of burping or milk flow issues. Intestinal gas is due to pocketed in the intestinal tract. In addition, neurological overload is because of the overwhelmed and overstimulated baby that becomes exhausted. Last, a muscular type of colic baby is probably because of muscle spasm and birth trauma.
The Symptoms of Colic Baby
Many people say that there is no symptoms of colic baby, because there is no discernible reason. You cannot see the symptoms that appear on the baby’s body. You will only hear the moaning of the baby. However, you will know your baby suffers colic baby when you try to give breastfeeding. If you give breastfeeding to your babies when they cry (as you think that they are hungry), then the babies do not belch easily. The symptoms may worsen soon after feeding, particularly in the early evening. You will see that your baby are cramping, moaning, etc. Sometimes, it will accompanied by “red flag” symptoms.
The Treatment of Colic Baby
There are no diseases that cannot be treated. On the other hand, colic baby can be treated if you know how to treat it. If your baby suffers colic baby without any “red flag”, then you can do non-medical treatment such as burping, stomach massage, and gas release techniques. You have to do it regularly in order that your baby can be healthy soon. If your baby suffers colic baby with “red flag”, then you have to consult it to the doctor in order that your baby can get the first aid.
To accompany your colic baby treatment, it is better for you to use The Miracle Baby Sleep System™. It is one way that can help you to overcome your baby problems like colic baby in the form CD of an audio soundtrack. The soundtrack can make your baby far from anxiety of colic. When your baby gets the colic, then your baby will moan and cramp. It will be very hurt and pain for your baby. Therefore, you have to try The Miracle Baby Sleep System™. It is because so many advantages that you can get besides to treat your baby from colic. One of them, the audio sound track can make your baby become more relax and stop crying. As the result, your baby can sleep tight while it is playing.
