How Do You Recognize And Provide Home Care For An Infant With Acid Reflux?
Infants with acid reflux can have apnea or difficulty breathing if not treated properly. Medical care is immediately needed. Once baby is home, there are steps you can take to make it easy for baby. After feeding the baby don’t hold him or her for at least 30 minutes. Keep baby in an upright postition in a swing or inclined bed, make sure baby has need medication as well. Use blocks to put underneath one end of babies bed. Make sure you use enought so that bed can’t slip off. If you prefer, there are sleep positioners available that allow baby to stay snuggly in place but at an incline so that acid will not choke baby. Listen closely to baby sleeping and make sure baby doesn’t wake gasping for air. When feeding baby mix milk with equal parts rice ceral for baby, this will thicken the milk.
