Many babies do to create in waves occurring abdominal cramps and bloating in the first months. The belly is inflated - doctors speak of a "drum belly". The child has a pale or red face paint, maybe it even has beads of sweat on his forehead, it writhes and cries. It attracts the feet and stretches it immediately jerked back from him. Often abundant winds go from there. Why this is so is not yet finally resolved. Is it the not yet fully mature intestine, where leading to bloating food that has taken the nursing mother to be, or may not even flatulence blame for the wines? Since adjust restlessness especially in the evening hours from 17 to 22 am, and the assumption is close that the child processes the experiences of the day, so to speak "digested". Since the causes of colic can not be clearly make out there for not a panacea. You have to find out the relief-providing method by trial and error.

• Babies often swallow air while drinking, especially bottle-fed babies. This can lead to painful bloating. Therefore, pay attention in the preparation of the vial that do not arise too many air bubbles (Laue 2008). That no more air into the milk is safe, you place the bottle briefly in the bottle warmer until the foam has disintegrated. Or stir the milk in a saucepan instead jogged up in the bottle.
• If your child drinks very quickly, a sucker can with a smaller hole remedy (Laue 2008).
• The famous burp help - not only for the meal, but also in between: Keep as over your shoulder, chest and abdomen that lie your baby. Knock him perhaps slightly on the back. Then the air comes out of the stomach (Laue 2008).
• Does your baby bloating, called the flier handle help: Take your child up and run a hand between the legs under the belly by: Your child then lies on her stomach on your forearm. With your other hand, reach under the upper body and the little arms overhead. The head is in your elbow. So you can carry around your baby well, yet easy weigh (Laue 2008).
• Take turns with your partner while wearing off and rest every now and again something from (Laue 2008).
• Bauchwehkindern do massages mostly good. Try your luck with a light massage of Bäuchleins (circling clockwise around the navel). Just do not massage when the belly is hard and tense. Pay attention to the signals your child!
• Keep your child warm - heat helps digestion activity. A small, warmed spelled, cherry stone or grape seed pillow you put your child from shirt and undershirt is very effective (Laue 2008). Warning: Just read the instructions for the heating pads and be careful that it is not too hot. Check before hanging up the temperature on the inner wrist - it should be warm - and to be sure the cores knead slightly, so that the hotter mix well with the less hot copies.

Herbalists

• Fennel and cumin are the most important medicinal plants that have been proven to bloating and infant colic. Give your baby before each meal with a teaspoon unsweetened fennel and caraway tea (Stadelmann I. 2005). You can also brew a bay leaf with - Laurel completes the effect. An alternative is an anise and fennel cumin tea (Laue 2008) or a lemon balm and fennel caraway. But do not let them go too long or caraway and fennel act again flatulent (Bebenroth 2011).
• Nursing mothers should drink one to two cups or before each feeding some sips of his stomach Wehtee even daily. The active ingredients enter namely through breast milk to your child on (Laue 2008). Or chew in between some caraway or fennel seeds. But do not overdo it: too much of it triggers bloating out!
• Maybe treat yourself from time to time - also together with your baby - a relaxing bath with yarrow - this herb causing spasm and relieves flatulence (Bebenroth 2011). For a full bath you blanch a large cup of dried yarrow with 2.1 liters of boiling water, the whole let steep 15 minutes and strain it off before adding your bath water the infusion. If your baby has colic around the same time every day, half an hour before it is an ideal time for the bathing ceremony.

Homeopathy

Dr. Markus Wiesenauer, homeopathic doctor suggests flatulence and Blähungskoliken following means of self-treatment before (Wiesenauer 2008):

• Okoubaka D3, if your child has flatulence, spits milk and has irregular bowel. This agent has also especially appropriate when you or your child have recently received an antibiotic or if your child has problems because of a change in diet, or about the supplementary feeding with the bottle can not stand. Dosage: three times a day one globule. If you are breastfeeding, you can take even three times a day 5 granules - the means then passes through breast milk to your baby.

• Carbo veg D12 if your child very hectic and fast drinks and afterwards crying. The abdomen is greatly distended and go from strong winds. The center also helps in frequent hiccups. Dosage: twice daily one globule for the baby, or if you are breast feeding, twice a day 5 granules for you.

Anthroposophic medicine

Anthroposophic medicine is becoming increasingly popular. Because of this holistic approach is our modern way of life: disease heal faster if you speak to the body, mind and spirit. These are the most important tips for colic (Bopp, 2007):

• Very important: keep the baby's skin as heat envelope. Therefore, and to the interest to the developing skin contact to maintain, rub over a period of two weeks at the small body best once or twice daily with mauve or Meilissenöl one.
• For sensitive skin, it is good to apply cream especially the back and thigh sections thin with Rosatum ointment.
• To protect the skin and heat envelope you should bathe your baby only once a week, for. Example, with a 10% lavender essential oil as a bath additive. distribute some drops of it in 37 ° C warm bath water with your hand in a figure eight. After the bath oil the skin with a good rose oil a slightly.
• A Baucheinreibung with a 10% Oxalisöl (oil extract from sorrel) helps very effective in flatulence. It promotes intestinal activity. After rubbing, you can place a warm Kirschkernsäckchen on his stomach to increase the effect.
• also includes an abdominal massage with Weleda Baby tummy oil, natural essential oils of marjoram, Roman chamomile and cardamom, can be relaxing.
• Give your baby if it is suffering from colic, one to three times a day for half WALA Carum carvi suppositories children (sharing the suppository to use a sharp knife lengthwise). They are consistently about one to three weeks until the afternoon, so if possible before the start of the "Cry hours".
• Not enough this treatment, give your baby Chamomilla / Belladonna (before each meal two globules) or stronger abdominal cramps Nicotiana comp. in the same dosage.
• Chamomilla cupro culta, Radix Rh D3 helps in acute Blähungskoliken and if children tend always to bloating and colic. Give your baby one to three times a day 3-5 drops.
• In any case, it is useful to provide a quiet, media-free environment as a baby sensory stimuli many times feels more intense than we adults.

Bath salts

Cell salts often have an amazing effect in children. They are available as tablets, globules or ointments. Most often they are used in tablet form on the basis of milk sugar (lactose). For infants and toddlers to crush the tablets into powder and outputs it on the tongue. For cylinders children can dissolve the salts in boiled, hot water, allow to cool and add to bottle feeding. In babies who are breastfed, it makes sense to to enter the Cell salts indirectly: the nursing mother takes the respective means - the child receives his dose over the milk. As an alternative to the tablets, there are Schuessler salts as globules - five globules correspond to a tablet. They contain cane sugar instead of milk sugar, and are therefore also suitable for lactose intolerant. These globules You can simply place the baby on the tongue or in the cheek pouch - so the healing ingredient through the oral mucosa are absorbed by the body.

Babies get at the acute symptoms every 10-20 minutes 1 tablet or 5 granules in potency or D6 D12, to abate the pain. With strong colic, you can exceed the usual dose also: For loosening 5-10 tablets of the agent or 25-50 globules in a glass of hot water (for stirring a plastic and do not use a metal spoon!), And drizzle the Baby few drops of one of the cooled solution every 2-5 minutes with a pipette. The procedure is called "Hot Seven", as it is usually applied to magnesium phos bearing the number 7 in the Tissue's middle row where the Schuessler salts that have proven themselves in bloating and colic (Heepen 2001).:

• The main means, especially when the baby pulls the legs to the body's magnesium phos no. 7. It there are dissolved in warm water as "Hot 7".
• Flatulence, associated with severe bowel sounds and possibly constipation you are sodium sulphate no. 10 (as Hot 7).
• If the baby gets stomach cramps and possibly diarrhea after each drinking milk, you are potassium phos no. 5th
• Extra tip: Rub the belly clockwise with warm hands with a magnesium phos Ointment no. 7.

Aromatherapy

• Ingeborg Stadelmann recommends against blowing an abdominal massage with cold-pressed vegetable oil, the essential oils of fennel, cumin, anise and coriander are added (as "fennel and caraway oil for children" or as "Four winds oil" in the trade) , A similar effect has the "Baby tummy oil" from Weleda. Massage the abdomen in a clockwise direction, best in the last wrap before typical for your child Blähungszeit - in acute colic does heat often better.
• Then place on a damp warm cloth. Dousing do this, for example, a handkerchief with warm water and wring it out firmly in, so it does not drip. You can give under the cloth additionally soaked with fennel and caraway or balm oil lobules - the essential oils support the belly soothing warming effect. In front of laying of the package, you should check the temperature on the wrist. It is ideal if you hang up at the end Healing wool for warmth and the whole thing with a scarf or a cotton diaper fasten is. The winding You can leave overnight in the belly of your baby. Good to know: Healing wool is unspun wool that you get in baby stores and by mail order. The acquisition is worth it. Finally, older children or dad and mom have from time to bellyache, and a warm belly winding always does well in the case.
• Also, an aroma bath with one of the commercially available stomachache oils can bring relaxation (Stadelmann I. 2005). Then adding a little honey, Dead Sea salt, cream or milk into the water so that the oil emulsified.