Patient's question:
My daughter started eating less milk at around four months (currently being fed with pure milk), and a few times she vomited everything out right after finishing the milk. Now she's already five months old, but she still refuses to drink milk. In the past few days, her daily milk intake has been kept within 300 ML, and she also refuses to eat supplementary food or drink much water. However, her spirits are good. I don't know what could be the reason, and I'm looking for a solution. Note: During her five-month checkup, her height, weight, and other measurements were all normal.Doctor's answer:
Infants spitting up between three and five months is a common phenomenon in newborns and infants. In most cases, spitting up is physiological, while more severe spitting up may indicate digestive dysfunction or gastrointestinal obstruction. The main physiological factor is underdeveloped stomach muscles. Infants often lie flat, and with underdeveloped stomach muscles, milk is easily expelled from the stomach, causing spitting up. Improper feeding, such as feeding too quickly, overfeeding, frequent changes in formula, prolonged crying before feeding, swallowing large amounts of air during feeding, and significant changes in body position after feeding, can all lead to spitting up.