Due to the influence of the traditional concepts and living environment of the older generation, many parents now believe that children are proud of being fat, but in fact, the health threat posed by children's obesity is very large. Although children need to be guaranteed in nutritional supplements during the period of growth and development, they should also pay attention to weight control.
It should be that many parents have found that the baby's belly is bulging, through consulting the information and consulting the doctor to know that there are two conditions of the big belly, one is physiological and the other is pathological.
First of all, most babies fall into the physiological range. This is mainly related to the baby's physical development, and as it grows, the belly will slowly disappear or not grow.
Several common physiological belly situations:
1. Undeveloped abs
Our stomach (i.e., the abdomen) stores many important organs, such as the liver, gallbladder, pancreas, spleen, etc., followed by the intestines. Because they are all cavity organs without skeleton support, they all rely on the wrapping of the abdominal muscles, so the adult's stomach will look relatively flat and firm. The child's abs are not yet fully developed, so they are more relaxed and feel fleshy.
2. Pronounced abdominal breathing
Children and adults breathe differently, you know? Children in the childhood stage, because the body's intercostal is soft, the surrounding soft tissues are still developing, so they complete the breathing exercise by relying on the rise and fall of the diaphragm muscle, which is a common abdominal breathing.
Therefore, the child's stomach will contract and bulge with exhalation and inhalation.
3. Poor vision caused by the anterior convex lumbar spine
Nowadays, the phenomenon of lumbar protrusion in young children is more and more common, abounding, because of the posture, if the lumbar spine protrudes forward, the natural ass will be poked back. In this way, the fleshy belly will be spit forward. It seems to be "big belly", such a situation, not the child is fat, the child's posture can be corrected to improve, restore the "small wild waist".
4. Large liver
Because young children are a stage of continuous development, one day at a time, and the development of the liver is originally used to develop other organs first, so the liver will be more "larger" than other organs, and the liver position is also in the right side of the abdomen, so it is more obvious, with the development of other organs, the stomach will be evenly distributed position, it will be evenly proportioned, and it will be coordinated.
5. The position of the stomach is affected
The stomach of an adult is an "upright" one, while the stomach of early childhood is horizontal. The size of the stomach slowly grows with the age of the child, and its position will also return to "in place" with the size of the look. The lateral stomach will occupy more space in the baby's stomach, so the stomach will appear very large and bulging when eating full. It's not really fat.
The second is that the pathological belly often has some accompanying symptoms of the abdomen, such as vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea and other symptoms. Therefore, the distinction is still very simple, when there is an abdomen unwell "big belly", please seek medical treatment in time, so as not to cause the child to suffer, parents are also worried.
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