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All most everyone know what colic is now and are not surprised when it happens. A recent mom already stressed from interruptions to her own sleep, eating, and self-care procedures can easily feel overpowered and scared when her otherwise content baby cries uncontrollably and is immune to any soothing attempts. It generally begins between two and three weeks, peaks during the first 2 months or so, begins to lessen at three months, and completely ends by three-and-a-half to four months. Colic really is not all that serious even though it might seem like it is from the way the baby cries. Colic can happen on a daily basis. Pediatricians have not been able to say exactly what induces intestinal colic until now.

Colic basically is a stomach ache that occurs after eating. Your baby may cry for hours or until the pain leaves. your baby can cry for hours, depending on how bad the colic is, cheeks can become red from exertion and pain. Signs that your baby has intestinal colic include the abdomen may enlarge or be distended and one leg will extend straight while the other is bent. The feet are often cold and the hands clenched tight for the people who gets abdomen pain. There are certain components you can avoid in order to lessen a baby’s intestinal colic problems. Below are a some ways to prevent your baby from suffering further.

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Feeding can make a colicky baby even worse, so make sure that your child is hungry and not just colicky before you start feeding. There are certain foods that will aggravate the intestinal colic - those with high sugar content, those with undiluted juice will only increase the wind in the belly and thus, aggravate the condition. Intestinal allergic reaction - this may also be a cause of colic so parents need to know what their children are allergic to. It may be from something that the mom has ingested directly something they have given to baby on through the milk when feeding. Intestinal colic can be affected by intense emotions such as anger, fear, anxiety, or excitement, and displaying these feelings around a colicky baby will only aggravate the baby’s pain.

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The greatest way to help your baby is to first not panic and then to read up as much as possible even before an occurrence takes place. Crying does not have to always be colic, so be open to other possibilities. There is no cure for colic so the only thing we can do is make our child as comfortable as possible until it passes.

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Cow’s milk appears to be considered one of   man’s greatest dietary errors. The more we discover what it does too our bodies the less we will be pleased about. For a great number of years, cow’s milk has continued to be sold as the “perfect food” for all of us and especially for our kids. Is this common sense?

The milk from all species of mammal is unique and particularly tailored to the needs of that animal. Cow’s milk is designed by nature to encourage the development of a rumen in the young cow’s digestive system. The rumen is similar too a fermenting vat with a grand population of bacteria that is imperative to breakdown huge amounts of fiber in the cow’s diet. Cow’s milk has several factors intended too stimulate bacterial growth in the intestines.  People, on the other hand, have a nearly sterile small intestine. Human milk, specifically intended for humans, includes substances that hinder intestinal bacterial growth.

People are subjected to milk in infancy and the long-term damage from consuming cow’s milk begins then. Consuming milk, during infancy, contributes to lack of tolerance, extreme sensitivity and hinderance with assimilation. The human infant is not able to convert cow’s milk into an absorbable form and this causes damage to the bowel mucosa. Young children that consume cow’s milk have small but significant bloodletting from their digestive tracts.  This bloodletting contributes to iron deficiency and anemia.  Health issues such as childhood diabetes, obesity, bowel disease, colic and ear infections are all linked too the consumption of milk in infancy.

One out of every five babies feels the pain of colic. Pediatricians have known for years that the consumption of cow’s milk was in many cases the problem. We now know that nursing mothers can also have a colicky baby if the mother consumes cow’s milk.

Cow’s milk is not only harmful to young children but it is also detrimental to adults.  The proteins in the cow’s milk causes matters of digestion, intolerance, impaired absorption of other nutrients and autoimmune responses. Many adults are lactose intolerant.  This is due to the fact that once we are weaned off breast milk our body ceases production of lactase, the enzyme that helps us to digest lactose.

Dairy products add a lot of cholesterol and fat to a person’s diet. A high cholesterol and high fat diet is linked with heart disease and other health concerns. Ovarian cancer is also linked to milk consumption. The sugar in milk called lactose is broken down to another sugar called galactose. This sugar influences a woman’s ovaries and expands her risk of developing ovarian cancer.

Humans are the only animals that drink another animal’s milk and to make matters even more unfavorable we consume it into adulthood.  Female mammals produce milk to supply as food and provide nourishment for their offspring. Once the infant is able to digest solid foods and the baby is taken off the mother’s milk it no longer consumes milk.

Much healthier options for human consumption are the fluids obtained from different kinds of plants and processed into milk.  These may be from nuts, grains, seeds or fruits. Many of these milks have been around for thousands of years in different parts of the world.  Best recognized are soy, rice, almond and coconut milk.

Milk Article by Fernanda B.Sc.Pharm, M.H., courtesy of HealthTopics.ca