Navel pain - quite alarminga symptom, in the event of which it is necessary to closely monitor the child and in case of deterioration in health, immediately seek medical help. The most important thing parents should know and always remember is that in no case should I put a heating pad on my stomach and not give the child any pain medicine (except for no-shpy) before consulting a doctor!
Navel pain can be caused nearbycauses - from overeating, intestinal infections and appendicitis to renal colic and various systemic diseases. When pain symptoms occur, you should try to find out from your child how long the stomach has ached and how much pain is felt. If the crumb is still very small and can not answer such questions, then you need to watch him - whether the baby is playing or trying to lie down and take a comfortable position (for example, curled up). Suspecting pain in the abdomen at the first years of life can be causeless, seemingly causeless at first glance, refusing to eat and pushing the legs to the stomach, especially if these symptoms persist for some time, but parents can’t distract the kid in usual ways.
A sharp pain in the navel requires urgenthelp! It is necessary, as soon as possible, to show the child to the doctor in order to rule out surgical problems (appendicitis, intestinal obstruction or invagination), in which delay is fatal. Sometimes parents do not want to immediately call an ambulance and hospitalize the child, arguing that “surgeons would just cut it.” In fact, if the arrivals on the call will be sure that there are no surgical pathologies, then the child will not even have to go to the hospital. And if there are any doubts, then in the hospital the doctor will carefully examine the child, prescribe the necessary tests and examinations, and only then the decision will be made whether an operation is necessary. Immediately from the ambulance car to the operating table can be reached only in the most neglected cases, as a rule, precisely when the parents tried to cope with the child’s abdominal pain for several days on their own.
With such a common disease asappendicitis, the child often complains about the pain in the navel, and not in the right side, as many adults used to think. It is during appendicitis that the heat applied to the stomach can accelerate the inflammatory process several times and lead to the development of serious complications very quickly. Therefore, all kinds of hot-water bottles and compresses on the stomach before consulting a doctor should be an absolute taboo for all parents! You should also be aware that many processes in a child’s body develop much faster than in adults, for example, the same appendicitis can lead to peritonitis literally within a day, so if a child complains of pain in the navel (right or center), and his state of health was clearly disturbed - it is impossible to hesitate.
Если у ребенка боль в области пупка accompanied by indigestion (diarrhea), nausea and / or vomiting and fever, it can be assumed that this is an intestinal infection. If the baby’s condition is not too disturbed, it can be treated at home, but if vomiting and diarrhea are too strong and the child loses a lot of fluids, hospitalization may be necessary.
In any case, if the child complains of pain in the navel, parents should follow the following recommendations:
- put the baby in bed (if he does not want to lie, let him play quiet games, watch cartoons or read a book);
- it is possible to give a child no-shpu in ageThe dosage is the only medicine that can be given without consulting a doctor. In addition, no-shpa helps to understand the cause of the pain - if after taking the pill it became easier, then with a high degree of probability the child does not have a surgical pathology. But if, after taking no-shpy, there is no improvement in well-being, this is not a reason to delay the call of a doctor or ambulance brigade;
- measure the temperature of the child and carefully examine the skin (sometimes children's infections such as chicken pox, scarlet fever and measles begin with abdominal pain);
- observe the frequency and consistency of the chair;
- feed the baby in very small portions andonly if he asks, try to drink more, especially at temperature, diarrhea and vomiting (literally a sip, so as not to provoke a gag reflex);
- if in an hour the child does not feel better, call the doctor or the ambulance team (if the baby is clearly ill, then you need to call the ambulance right away).
