Dill water for newborns. How to take dill water to infants?

With the help of dill water, you can quickly and effectively get rid of infant colic, but in order to happen, you need to know how to apply this natural tool and how not to cause complications of the baby's condition. Read these and other tips for the preparation and use of dill water in this article.

The first months of a child’s life is incredibly complex both for the baby himself, adapting to outside the uterine life, and for his parents, who in every possible way try to facilitate this adaptation.

The situation is also difficult in the fact that starting from 3-5 weeks, the baby may have the so-called colic-pain caused by bloating, during which the baby cries frantically and pushes the legs. An excellent wind -nger that came to us from the past is dill water will help to cope with excess gas formation.

Beneficial properties of dill water for children

Dill water is an effective tool that is used to combat various diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, but it is most known for the active use for newborns suffering from colic.

The effect of this natural medicine is to relieve spasm, which contributes to the withdrawal of gases accumulating in the intestines. Thus, thanks to dill water, you can get rid of bloating, colic and flatulence.

In addition, dill water helps to improve digestion, which is very important for the immature digestive system of the baby, and also has an antimicrobial effect.

Being a natural remedy, dill water does not cause side effects, like many drug suspensions used to combat colic.

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Preparation of dill water for newborns

Despite its name, dill water is not prepared at all from dill, but from its relative - Fenhel. The seeds of this plant are collected, dried and used in the pharmaceutical industry as a means to improve digestion.

Many mothers use ordinary garden dill as an ingredient in dill water and claim that it has the same effect as Fennel.

Dill water can be purchased ready -made in the prescription department of pharmacies. But since far from everywhere there are similar departments and purchased the finished product is sometimes problematic, the wind -bearing drug can be prepared independently. One of the components is suitable for this:

• fennel essential oil
• tea from Fennel
• fennel seeds
• dill seeds

Depending on which component you will use several recipes for making dill water:

1. Based on essential oil - 1 ml of fennel oil is required per 1 liter of distilled water, which can be measured using a sterile syringe.
   2. Based on dill seeds - a teaspoon of seeds or greens of dill should be poured with a glass of boiling water and insist the mixture for an hour, after which the mixture must be filtered
   3. Based on fennel seeds-2-3 g of crushed seeds pour 250 g of boiling water and insisted for 1 hour, and then filtered through a small sieve
   4. Preparation of tea - 1 packet of fennel tea is poured with a glass of boiling water and insisted until complete cooling

It is important to use only distilled or special children's water when preparing dill water, because it will be used for a newborn child.

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How often to give children dill water?

Dilling water can be used to prevent gas formation and for direct struggle with it. In order to prevent dill water, the baby is given three times a day, and if colic occurs, the product is given once during the occurrence of pain in the baby and problems with gases, which are accompanied by prolonged weeping and bloating.

Dosage of dill water to infants in any case is the same: in one dose it is necessary to give no more than 1 teaspoon of the product. If a child occurs often colic, then the reception frequency can be increased to 6 times a day.

How to give dill water to a baby?

Dill water is given to the kids from the second week of life. Of course, such a small child will not be able to drink the product from the spoon, so you can give dill water to the child like this:

• mix in a small amount of cooked breast milk or a mixture in a bottle of nipple
• pour the product itself into a bottle (teaspoon) without mixing with anything
• try to give a remedy from a sterile syringe

If the child willingly agrees to drink dill water in its pure form, then it is necessary to give it in between feeding or before meals.

How much dill water is stored?

The beneficial properties of dill water are preserved for 30 days, provided that it will be stored in the refrigerator.

This applies to the product bought in a pharmacy, but dill water cooked independently can “exist” for so long only if it was prepared in conditions of absolute sterility, which is almost impossible.

For the baby, it is best to cook new dill water every time - so it will not lose properties and will bring maximum benefits.

In addition, the preparation process is simple and convenient, so there is no need to prepare the product once a month and to expose a fragile organism of danger.

What is the danger of an overdose of dill water?

• Although dill water is completely natural drug, its significant use has negative consequences
• If you give the baby an enlarged dose of dill water or will repeat the reception too often, then this can lead to the message of the chair and too strong gas formation
• There is also an opinion that dill water in large quantities helps to reduce blood pressure

Therefore, one should not overdo it with the use of the product, because an immature child’s body can respond differently to it, and if colic does not pass after the use of dill water and relief does not occur within half an hour, then such a tool is simply not suitable for the child and should be preferred by other windhogs drugs.

Allergies in newborns to dill water

Very rarely a child may develop an allergic reaction to dill water. As a rule, it manifests itself in the form of a traditional rash, red spots on the body, but other symptoms may occur:

• vomit
• flatulence
• reducing the chair
• swelling of the mucosa

• If such symptoms occur, it is necessary to stop giving the baby a drug and switch to another drug from colic, which does not contain fennel or dill
• Such an allergic reaction can occur due to the fact that the child’s digestive system is very immature and it is difficult to cope with some substances that are not split and are not absorbed due to the weak development of the necessary enzymes
• Also, we should not forget that dill, like a fennel, a plant capable of pulling heavy metals and other substances that are available in the soil in the soil on which the plant grows. They can cause poisoning, which will also be accompanied by vomiting and liquid stool

Contraindications for taking dill water

The cheapness and naturalness of dill water sometimes pushes parents to extremes in its use. For example, many compassionate mothers begin to be afraid of colic and so that they do not arise give the child dill water instead of ordinary water.

This is categorically impossible to do this: dill water is a drug and there should not be an uncontrolled administration of this drug.

Since each organism reacts in its own way both to food and medicines, it is worth considering the possibility of individual reactions, observing the condition of the child after taking dill water.

If mother noticed changes in the chair, rashes, oddities in the behavior of the child, the product should be canceled and consulted by the pediatrician.

How to give dill water to infants: tips and reviews

Dill water is a means tested by time that proved its effectiveness in more than one generation. But recently, there has been more and more talk that the effectiveness of the dill has been exaggerated.

According to many doctors, a wind -bearing tool can occur from taking simple water, not necessarily dill. Experts also talk about the greater benefits of highlighting, containing potassium so necessary for the intestines.

Whether to believe the assumptions of some doctors or trust the experience of mothers and grandmothers is everyone’s personal business. If you see the visible effect of dill water and the absence of side effects, then there is no reason not to give this product to the baby. The main thing is that mother is calm for her child, and the baby is comfortable to know the world and develop.

Video: Dill water for children's colic. Komarovsky