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Treating a baby with colic
My baby is eleven weeks old. She was given infant gaviscon for colic when she was three weeks old. It didn’t help with the colic but when I stop giving it to her, she brings up quite a bit of her bottle. Would this affect her when she is weaning?
We don’t know the precise cause of infantile colic. But it’s not a disease and won’t harm your baby. You’ve obviously been in contact with your health professionals, so you know that your baby is developing normally in all other respects.
If your baby gets feverish, goes off food, develops green stools or is otherwise unwell, then consult your GP again. But remember that after 20–30 minutes of colic – going red in the face, drawing legs up, clenching fists, refusing to be comforted, passing a lot of wind and having tummy rumbles – it can seem
as if they have a temperature, when actually they haven’t.
Treating your baby for colic will almost certainly involve a degree of trial and error – what works wonders for your friend’s baby may make no difference
at all to your little one. Infant gaviscon does seem to help some babies who have colic, though it only helps with irritations occurring in a baby’s gastric system, like continual ‘food/milk regurgitation’.
Weaning will often help, because the introduction of solid foods discourages the regular ‘bulking’ of milk after feeding.
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