What are the common causes of gastritis in children and what should I pay attention to in daily life?

Author:Pediatrician Wang Mingyue Time:2022.07.24

Children's spleen and stomach are delicate and easy to cause gastritis due to various factors such as eating habits. Children often show poor appetite, abdominal pain, abdominal distension, diarrhea, and acid reflux after gastritis. Some children will increase after eating, and some children will also have symptoms of nausea and vomiting.

The common factor that causes gastritis that causes gastritis in children:

1. Bad eating habits: Some children eat spicy foods wantonly; or children often drink cold drinks and cold food; or if snacks are constantly, parents will not be controlled. In the long run, they will damage the spleen and stomach and cause gastritis.

2. Poor hygiene habits: If you do n’t like to wash your hands, cut your nails, or eat a deterioration and unclean food for children.

3. Improper medication: Parents give their children for their own medicine after children's illness, and some drugs have a stimulating effect on the stomach, which can damage the gastric mucosa, and may also cause gastritis for children.

4. Helicobacter pylori infection: If someone is infected with Helicobacter pylori in the crowd with children, children will have a chance to be infected by H. pylori and gastritis.

Once children are diagnosed with gastritis, in addition to positive drug treatment, parents need to pay attention to these points:

1. Exercise: Usually urge children to exercise more, active at least half an hour a day to enhance physical fitness and improve the body's immunity.

2. Sanitary health: develop good sanitary habits, wash your hands logistically before meals, clean and clean before eating.

3、饮食注意:避免暴饮暴食,可以少食多餐,定时定量,防止过饥或过饱;建议孩子吃一些清淡的、容易消化的食物,以免加重不适症状,对胃肠造成负担,粥、 Foods such as noodles are good choices; in addition, monitor children eat less snacks and cold drinks.

4. Abdominal massage: Parents put their hands down in the abdomen of the child, with the umbilicus as the center, rubbing along the clockwise direction, about 20 minutes each time, 2 times a day.

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