Patient's question:
My child is 52 days old. Occasionally, when feeding, he vomits a lot, not just a little, and cries non-stop. When he passes gas, there's a significant amount of diarrhea with a lot of water, but he's eating normally. Is this a concern? What should we do? We've used Houzao San, has it been effective? Also, I noticed a red spot at the entrance of his throat, with a white center, looking a bit inflamed. How should we use medication?Doctor's answer:
??????Hello, a two-month-old baby has a small stomach capacity and is in a horizontal position. Moreover, the cardiac sphincter at the entrance of the stomach is poorly developed and relatively loose, while the pyloric sphincter at the exit is well-developed and tight, creating an outlet-tight, inlet-loose condition. This makes it easy for milk to reflux and cause vomiting. Once encountering improper feeding and care, such as excessive feeding frequency, large feeding amounts, large or inverted breasts of breastfeeding mothers, or excessively large holes in rubber nipples when bottle-feeding, leading to the baby drinking too quickly; or lying the baby flat after feeding, or excessively moving or jostling the baby too much or too early, can easily cause the baby to spit up.