Show n PROJECTILE VOMITING BY YOUNG BABY CALLS V FOR PARTICULAR PAP CARE Lengthening Intervals Between lie lie- tween Feedings First Step to Be Taken By MYRTLE MEYER l Are you 1 0 asking Should my bab baby be weaned Mra Mr Eldred offers a leaflet CharacterIstic Symptoms of oC Time which is able for lor a self elf cent 3 stamped envelope sent with i your request to the Your Baby and Mine department or of this I The Tho spitting spitting- up so common to young babies technically called regurgitation regurgitation re is relatively tant In most instances It Indicates too generous a Ice feeding ding too ti tight ht clothes or perhaps too much activity activIty ity following a feeding Shortly after baby is fed Ced the milk comes up in pretty much the tho state In which it went down Lengthening the intervals between feedings It if they are three hour periods pe- pe nods cutting down doria on the time spent at breast or altering the formula for lor- mula are arc the first steps which can be taken It Ir the baby is being bandied handled han ban died after feeding that Is an easy matter to correct In the first week weel or two ot of baby's life tight binders are arc quite often productive of oC that sort of tummy compression which leads to spitting up vomiting 1 Is quite another problem This develOps because ot of correctable errors In the diet perhaps perhaps per per- haps too much cream or too much sugar or too high a proportion of protein in fri the formula One can discover the possible causes of trouble trouble trou- trou ble by comparing the baby's diet in every particular with other diets for Cor babies the same age and weight and in comparing his formula with standard formulas Every successful successful success success- ful formula need Deed not be exactly alike but it if there Is a wide difference differ differ- ence anti and the results are arc persistently chronic vomiting there is some cause for tor suspicion that all is not as It should be I Of OC all types projectile vomiting Is the tho most serious No matter matteri whether the baby is breast or bottle fed he vomits persistently and with great reat forceful gushes after being fed The cause of such sueh vomiting is usually some physical constriction present in the muscular gateway leading from the stomach into the small Intestine This muscle should expand and allow food to pass in regular rhythms until the tho stomach is empty If Ie the muscle is too tight there thero is so little expansion that not enough food tood can the stomach atom atom- ach is consequently almost Impossible Impossible sible to empty empt I IThe The natural mu muscular cular contractions contrite contrite- lions which are arc intended to send the food lood into the small intestine result re- re suit sult only in sending it out of the mouth in a stream with such sueh force torce that the food tood is shot sometimes several say sev- oral eral feet teet from bab baby This condition has do with food tood It can be dealt with either by medicines which improve c the elasticity or of the pylorus the muscular gateway or orby orby by the use of thick find and concentrated foods which cannot easily be vomited vom- vom and do inevitably pass the atom ach An operation may be the last resort When this type of vomiting Is present consult a physician to avert the disaster of allow allowing ng baby to starve in tho belief that the food is at fault lault |