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Can you tell what is the matter with medical baby when he cries forum? Usually a children’s specialist can, but that is something I cannot impart to you. When you have heard him cry many times, you will know. There is the fretful cry of the baby who is discontented with his lot. He is wet, or he is hot, or uncomfortably dressed, or hungry. There is the angry cry, the outburst of disappointment when he finds this world is not the pleasant place he thought it to be, and which is solaced by attention. There is the cry of pain, the unceasing cry which no amount of attention or distraction can alleviate. There is the hoarse cry of the child who has cried a great deal, or the throaty cry of the child suffering with some throat affection. There is the low moaning cry of the very sick child, which breaks your heart to hear. There is even the cry indicative of certain diseases, such as the “cephalic cry” of meningitis and other brain conditions forum, and the wild night cry with which the child with bone tuberculosis starts out of his sleep.
In the early months a certain amount of crying is good for a baby; it exercises his lungs and muscles and helps the circulation. As David Harum says, “Some fleas is good for a dog. It keeps him from broodin’ on bein’ a dog.” However, one or two hours of crying a day is sufficient. When there is much more than that, the cause should be investigated.
Perhaps the greatest difficulty is to distinguish between the cry caused by hunger and that caused by colic chat, or indigestion. The simplest indicators are the stools, the amount of gas expelled, and the vomiting.
If the stools are a good yellow color, smooth and well digested, containing no mucus nor curds, and if there is no vomiting and no gas expelled, we may suspect that hunger rather than colic is the cause of the baby’s discomfort. Again come the scales to help us out, for if the baby has been carefully weighed and has gained six or eight ounces each week, we know with certainty that he is getting enough food. If he has gained not at all or only two or three ounces a week he needs more or stronger food or, better still, expert advice. If he is gaining more than eight or ten ounces a week and still cries more than his allotted time (two or three hours a day) he is probably suffering from colic due to over-feeding. If such a baby is breast-fed he should be fed only once in four hours; if he is bottle-fed the food is too strong, or he is fed too often or too much at a time.
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