What Are the Symptoms of Silent Reflux in Babies?

Interestingly there is much written about and so-called 'colic' in babies and everyone seems to have an opinion on information technology. I take found many babies are diagnosed every bit having colic, only this tin mean very lilliputian in reality equally in that location is no medical definition for the term and it is actually just a non-descriptive term for pain.

Colic or Reflux? The Burning Question!!

For case, The Oxford English Dictionary States: colic n. A severe spasmodic abdominal hurting.

Colic is usually defined every bit 'excessive crying in infancy with no known crusade' – but I believe there is always a reason for bouts of inconsolable and excessive crying. Later on all, an infant'due south cry is the only manner they accept of communication in the first few months – we simply need to learn to listen and interpret!

In many babies, the cause of excessive crying can actually be attributed to gastro- oesophageal reflux and/or digestive intolerances or allergies.  Yet,  getting a diagnosis of this can be incredibly difficult.

If your baby has outward symptoms such as projectile vomiting or is failing to gain weight then your health visitor or GP may suggest reflux could exist the cause, only if your baby is not projectile vomiting, is not losing weight or failing to thrive can be extremely difficult to get a diagnosis.

Most health visitors, GPs and even some paediatricians merely recognise infant reflux if the above symptoms are nowadays as they do not sympathize the more serious status of 'silent reflux.'

With a baby that vomits or spits up a lot, it'due south relatively easy to understand that the baby may have reflux, where equally a babe that might just have excessive bouts of crying only is rarely sick and still gains weight would ofttimes be deemed to just have 'colic'.

I get asked all the time what Reflux is…Reflux is quite simply 'the astern flow of the tum contents'. Due to the immaturity of the lower oesophageal sphincter muscle, the contents of the stomach (known as the refluxate) are able to leak dorsum upward into the oesophagus and depending on the force at which information technology is expelled from the stomach, the vomit may projectile out of the baby'southward oral cavity and nose, come up every bit far as the mouth and trickle out as continual posseting / spitting up or may merely come up part style, hitting the back of the throat and then sinking back down into the stomach. The refluxate consists of, not but what the baby has recently eaten or drunk, but also contains a high concentration of gastric acid.

This acid is naturally present in the stomach and needed for the digestion process, but it should not exist nowadays in the oesophagus, throat, nasal passages or sinuses every bit information technology burns the soft tissues in these parts causing extreme pain.

The scenario I mention above, whereby the stomach contents continually reflux upwards and down inside the oesophagus, is actually known every bit Silent Reflux……..but, to the untrained eye, considering the baby is showing no signs of vomiting or outward signs of having reflux the condition is commonly passed off as 'colic'.

A infant suffering from Silent Reflux volition often have bouts of unexplained crying and testify obvious signs of discomfort.

They may besides suffer from:

• gagging and choking episodes
• hold their breath and have episodes of slumber apnea
• have excess nasal mucous, seeming to often have a cough and cold
• dribble a lot and often seem to 'bubble' at the mouth with backlog saliva
• it may exist suggested that your baby is an  'early on teether'
• take a white coated tongue and often be misdiagnosed as having oral thrush
• go rigid and ofttimes curvation their dorsum
• are rarely relaxed and always tense
• they are oft muscularly very strong for their age
• be very hard to agree and never relax & lie back in your arms equally you lot would expect
• accept bouts of comfortless screaming and crying
• have very poor slumber patterns and are very difficult to settle into independent  sleep
• want to feed oftentimes, round the clock and information technology seems impossible to become them into a feeding routine
• take ages over each feed and ofttimes pass up to have their milk easily
• become very withdrawn, quiet and not collaborate and focus as they should
• rarely grin, often pout and look 'worried'
• suffer with Bronchiolitis  and have repeated ENT infections
• take excess 'bottom current of air' , take explosive stools or seem to be constipated
• exist very difficult to burp and difficult to feed

As y'all can see, the list is endless and no two babies will ever display exactly the same symptoms hence, it can be extremely hard for health professionals to make a diagnosis particularly if they have never before, dealt with a reflux babe.

If y'all instinctively experience that something is not quite as it should be with your infant or your baby is displaying some of the above symptoms then I urge you to seek professional help.

The outset place that you will find further, useful information on Silent Reflux is in the terminal chapter of my book – The Sensational Babe Sleep Plan, which is available through my website, or through Amazon UK and in some loftier street book stores.

Y'all will also need a medical diagnosis, ideally from a Paediatric Gastroenterologist who should offer a forward handling and management plan to ultimately bring the symptoms under control…and so you will need to teach your baby to sleep equally proper, restful, regenerative sleep is the best cure-all around from my feel.

Alison Scott-Wright is a Mum and Grandmother with a dearest of babies and a sixth sense when information technology comes to understanding them.

Writer of 'The Sensational Infant Sleep Plan', Alison is in demand with many parents offering domicile visits, telephone consultations, group visits and much more.  You tin find out more than over at www.alisonscott-wright.com .  You tin too follow her on Facebook @MagicSleepFairy, Twitter @babysleepexpert and Instagram @magic_sleep_fairy

*All of these responses are those of Alison Scott Wright and her ain experiences and exercise not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any other agency, organisation, employer or company.

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