Colic Symptoms Ans Solutions That Really Work
You wake up in a good sweat. The baby is suddenly screaming their lungs out. No matter what you do the crying and fussing keeps going on and on. For hours, several times a week. The crying is not only upsetting the entire family as well as some neighbors who can hear the screaming through the apartment walls.
You are at your wit’s end and have to do something, soon. If this could be your family then read this article and learn more about baby colic symptoms and discover the best colic solutions available.
What are Colic Symptoms?
Colic normally can occur in a newborn starting from the 2nd or 3rd week of life and lasts as long as 12 weeks. Common colic symptoms are: constant and uncontrollable crying for as long as 3 hours a day for 3 or 4 days a week. Colic can happen anytime of the day but often starts in the late afternoon or evening. A baby with colic can have a red or flushed face, clenched fist, a rumbling tummy and will draw their legs up tight against their stomach.
No one is really sure as the root cause of the colic. But it is believed to affect almost 30% to 50% of all infant children. Now many scientists and healthcare professionals now think that colic is a sign that a baby’s digestive system takes 2 or 3 months to adjust to life outside their mother’s womb and properly take in food.
Studies prove that it doesn’t seem to matter if the child breast-feeds or is bottle-fed, the number and severity of episodes remain the same. So what can you do the help relieve your child’s colic symptoms during this worrying phase of their life?
Colic Solutions – Common Ways to Quiet Colicky Babies
There are lots of colic “solutions” and “cures” available from the Internet today. A good many of them are plain bull poo and while others may actually be harmful to your baby. So the best thing you can do is to either stay with colic products that have been tested over time or use what are commonly called “TLC” (tender loving care) cures.
Colic solutions come in basically 4 types: Commercial, pharmaceutical, homeopathic and natural herbal or folk medicines. Commercial products take the form of “gripe waters” which are designed to relieve the bloating and gas plus sooth tummy rumbles. Some of these gripe water formulas have been around for over 150 years.
Next in line are pharmaceutical grade colic drops made from “anti-gas” agents like simethicone. Then you have homeopathic gripe waters and drops developed along the principle of “like cures like”. Homeopathic treatments are based on the use of minute, highly diluted doses of both natural and man-made ingredients to stimulate the body's own self-healing abilities.
Natural or herbal treatments only use plants or plant extracts and botanical oils to treat colic symptoms. These herbal or botanical medicines can be made from either cultivated or native plants found in the wilds.
TLC colic solutions are viewed by some modern caregivers as just old fashioned but they are both affordable and surprisingly effective. Tender loving care involves using slings, pouches or belly-packs to increase the amount of time you hold your child. TLC also includes using rhythmic motions such as rocking, swaying or swinging to help sooth and calm upset children. And of course this includes the most ancient of colic solutions singing your child to sleep.
No matter what colic symptoms your child has one or more of these colic solutions is sure to help and sooth them.
