YOGYAKARTA As a mother, you must have found your baby experiencing gums. This condition occurs when the baby vomits again the contents of the stomach that have previously entered through his mouth. Knowing information about gums is important as an addition to parenting science. Then why do babies often gum?
Quoted from AI Care, gumoh is an incident experienced by a baby, where the baby will vomit out the contents of the stomach again through its mouth. Gumoh himself is known as gastroesophageal reflectux in medical language. Gumoh issued by the baby is not only in the form of food or drinks, but can be in the form of a secretion of the digestive tract gland that turns to the concavity.
The phenomenon of moisturizing in babies is considered a reasonable physiological process. Even babies who are still breastfeeding also experience this. Babies will experience a naturalbloating at the age of 2 to 3 weeks and peak when the baby is 4 to 5 months old.
The cause of baby gumoh is due to temporary relaxation of muscle rings at the bottom of the concavity or so-called esophagean sfringter. It should be noted that the function of muscle rings is to prevent foods in the stomach from turning back towards the concavity.
Muscle rings in babies themselves do not function perfectly so it is only natural for them to experience gumoh. Parents do not need to worry because gumoh will usually disappear over time, especially when the function of the digestive tract in children is more perfect, especially when the child can sit down and can already eat solid foods MPASI. Normally, the occurrence of gumoh in babies will disappear by itself when they are 12 months old and over.
In babies, fever occurs due to physiological orises. While vomiting can occur for certain health reasons. In addition, gums occur at certain ages, while vomiting is a term for the forced release of the contents of the stomach through the mouth.
In addition, the difference between gumoh and vomiting is that gumoh will come out of the mouth without pressure and excessive effort from the baby. Gumoh is also not accompanied by the baby's crying. While vomiting occurs accompanied by a certain push or effort from the baby. At this time the baby will fuss and even cry. In addition, the body will have a fever followed by other symptoms.
It should also be noted that gumoh liquids are usually as much as 1 to 2 tablespoons. When that happens, mothers don't need to worry because it's a natural thing. However, parents must know the normal characteristics of gumoh, which is as follows.
SEE ALSO:
When a baby gumoh, parents simply clean the liquid coming out of the mouth with a soft and dry cloth. This is done to prevent the irritation of the baby's skin.
Parents are also advised to enforce the baby's position for 30 minutes after he is breastfed. This is done to avoid pressure on the baby's stomach. Parents are also advised to pat the baby's back slowly and carefully so they can sindawa.
Apart from being related to why babies are often fussy, visit VOI.ID to get other interesting information.
The English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and French versions are automatically generated by the AI. So there may still be inaccuracies in translating, please always see Indonesian as our main language. (system supported by DigitalSiber.id)