If the baby is sick, the pediatrician may prescribe suppositories (rectal suppositories) for him, which must be injected into the rectum.
The use of this form of drugs becomes most relevant if the child is still small, since older children can safely take the pill.
In addition, with the help of rectal suppositories, a therapeutic effect can be achieved that lasts a long time.
Candles will also be a godsend for mothers whose children refuse to take injections.
Rectal suppositories are of various types. They are prescribed to children as a laxative or to administer a specific medicine.
If you do not have the necessary experience and you do not know how to insert a candle for a child, then such a procedure may seem frightening and difficult at first glance.
To carry out the manipulations, you will need directly yourself, baby cream or petroleum jelly. If the child has already grown up, he must be told that this is necessary in order for him to recover faster and it is better than injections or medications, to explain exactly how the procedure will take place.
It is necessary that the baby is calm about these manipulations. Otherwise, the procedure can be painful. If the child is still small, then he needs to be distracted. For this purpose, you can call someone close to help you.
Before starting the procedure, the candle must be warmed at room temperature.
To make the process go faster, you can immerse it in warm water without removing it from the protective packaging or hold it in your palms for a while.
Step-by-step implementation of the procedure
The steps for introducing a rectal suppository are as follows:
special instructions
Rectal suppositories are introduced to the child only after the bowel has been emptied. If, after the introduction of suppositories from the temperature, a bowel movement has occurred, the suppository should be inserted again. If more than 10 minutes have passed and the contents of the rectal suppository have been absorbed into the rectum, the procedure does not need to be repeated.
Since the composition of rectal suppositories contains oils and paraffins, they tend to melt quickly. At body temperature, they begin to liquefy and, not completely dissolving in the rectum, flow out, therefore
it is best to put a diaper under the baby's bottom.
Due to these properties of suppositories, it is recommended to store them in a dark and cool place (from 8 to 15 degrees). Before use, be sure to read the instructions for use and in no case do not use them after the expiration date has expired.
Contraindications
There are no contraindications for suppositories.
As for rectal suppositories with antipyretic effect, which contain paracetamol, they can be given to children after a year.
If a mother uses such candles, she should refuse to use other means to lower the temperature. These drugs can cause allergic reactions in the form of skin rashes, heart or digestive problems.
If a child suffers from renal or hepatic insufficiency, then such a drug is prohibited.
Rectal suppositories are used only if the child has a fever; it cannot be used to relieve pain!
Newborn children are allowed only a single administration of suppositories with. If the effect of lowering the temperature is not achieved, you should immediately consult a doctor. The specialist will prescribe a different medicine that is more effective.
Do not overdose in the use of rectal suppositories. In this case, children may develop liver and kidney problems.
You do not need to use such candles too often if the child is using antibiotics. It is better to consult on this topic with your doctor in order to find out the required dosage.
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Babies are very sensitive not only to changes in the external world, completely new and unknown to them, but also to changes in their own body. When changing from mother's breast milk to store-bought formula, newborns may experience digestive problems and colic in the abdomen. With normal digestion, children under three months old can defecate two to four times a day, and children under one year old can defecate one to two times a day.
If your child has prolonged delays in bowel movements, this could mean constipation, accompanied by pain from the constant build-up of gas in the gastrointestinal tract. Parents often face such a problem in infants, because the system responsible for processing and removing food from the body has not yet been fully formed in the baby.
Causes of constipation in a child
Infectious diseases or the process of growth of milk teeth, characterized by inflammation in the oral cavity, can also provoke constipation in a baby. There are also other reasons for violation of peristalsis in infants:
What candles are prescribed for newborns
The gentlest and most effective way to ensure the child's bowel movement is on time is the anal administration of glycerin suppositories. To determine the most suitable suppositories for your child, you need to consult a pediatrician who will examine the baby and prescribe a medication. For the treatment of constipation, glycerin suppositories can be used from the age of three months. The drug has an irritating effect on the rectum and provokes the onset of the defecation process.
It is believed that the active substance of this suppository, glycerol, does not spread through the child's gastrointestinal tract and does not enter the body, which means it does not cause addiction and allergies.
To eliminate constipation in infants, it is necessary to use special children's glycerin suppositories in a volume of one and a half grams. If the baby has inflammation of the rectum or cracks in the anus, the introduction of suppositories is contraindicated. If too much of the drug is injected, itching and discomfort in the anus may occur. To get rid of the burning sensation, it is necessary to inject a small amount of warm sunflower or olive oil into the baby's anus.
How to light a candle for a baby
Many parents, especially if this is the first baby in the family, a natural question arises about how to correctly introduce a candle to a child. In order for the process to go through with the least discomfort, parents need to follow these steps:
The task of the parents is to make the unpleasant process of introducing candles as invisible to the baby as possible. After all, candles help to cope with more unpleasant sensations during intestinal obstruction.
There are suppositories that can also help reduce fever. Learning how to light the candles will make life much easier for you and your child.
Every parent has a situation when it is necessary to do something, help a child, and most often this help should be of a medical plan. That is, the baby needs to be given certain medications and to alleviate this or that condition. Let's talk about glycerin candles, which are extremely relevant for newborns.
Pediatricians call glycerin suppositories a kind of real salvation for parents and their children, but only if parents know how to insert candles to a child correctly.
Suppositories for diseases
Suppositories are used for various diseases, ranging from constipation (glycerin suppositories) to suppositories for fever and pain. As a rule, parents cannot always light a candle for a child the first time. This takes a bit of practice. Moreover, you will have to practice on your own child. Below is a small instruction - how exactly to light a candle for a child?
Answers on questions
- When are glycerin candles put on a child?
The mistake of most parents is that they put glycerin suppositories to their child in cases where he cannot go to the toilet, he has constipation. But! It is best to put a candle to a crumbs after he has pooped. In the first case, there will be no effect from the candle - it will simply come out with feces (some of which will remain in the rectum). In the second case, the child in the next act of defecation will be able to completely empty the rectum.
- Where and how are glycerin candles stored?
Store glycerin candles on the refrigerator door. Before using the candle, take it out, cool it a little (it will take about 5-10 minutes) and then insert it into the baby's anus.
- How to painlessly introduce a candle to a child? Is there some way to distract him?
During the introduction of the candle, try to talk to the child. Otherwise, turn on a little cartoon or your favorite melody. Thus, the child will be distracted, and will not prevent you from introducing a candle to him.
Preparatory activities
It is convenient to carry out such manipulations (to introduce glycerin suppositories) on a hard surface. To do this, use a changing table or a bed (if it will be comfortable for you to look after your baby on it).
Before introducing a glycerin suppository to a child, be sure to wash your hands with soap and water. Prepare candles (take them out of the refrigerator and refrigerate), wet wipes, baby oil or cream, distracting rattle toys for your baby.
What to do and how to do it?
So, lay the child on his back. With your free hand, take it by the heels and lift it up. You must first have a glycerin candle prepared. With a quick, precise movement, insert the candle into the child's anus about 2 cm.
The deeper you insert the glycerin suppository into the anus, the more effective the medicine will "work".
Otherwise, with insufficient introduction of the glycerin suppository into the anus, it (the suppository) will fall out and no therapeutic effect will be provided.
Parents need to make sure that the glycerin suppository does not come out of the anus immediately after it is inserted into it. To avoid this, you need to deeply insert the candle, and then firmly squeeze the child's buttocks for 5-1-0 minutes. After such procedures, the baby's anus should be lubricated with baby oil or cream.
Before using glycerin suppositories, be sure to consult your pediatrician.
Indications for the use of candles
Suppositories are a very effective drug that helps to get rid of fever in a child (for example, Viburcol suppositories) or glycerin suppositories that eliminate constipation in crumbs and help fight constipation and colic.
Glycerin candles are very cheap, therefore, it is not difficult to purchase them for a home medicine cabinet.
Suppositories for constipation
Constipation is common in newborn babies. Constipation should be understood as physiological stool retention for 1-2 days. Moreover, it is normal for a child from birth to 3 months to count the number of bowel movements from 2 to 4 per day, for babies 12 months old it is permissible from 1 to 2 times a day.
Constipation causes suffering to a small child - he cries, screams. Gas accumulates in the gastrointestinal tract due to constipation, and bowel movements become very difficult and extremely painful.
Constipation is most common in children under one year old.
The cause of constipation in children under one year old is an incompletely formed gastrointestinal tract. In babies at this age, the process of digesting food, absorbing it into the stomach and then removing toxic substances from the body is disturbed (more precisely, not formed).
Constipation reasons
Before putting a glycerin candle on your baby, you should find out the main causes of constipation in your child. You will not constantly put a glycerin candle for your child to poop?
So, the most common causes of constipation in children are:
- Switching from breast milk to artificial formula;
- The first teeth are at the crumbs;
- Infectious diseases;
- Lack of fiber in the main diet;
- Early introduction of complementary foods to the child;
- Poor nutrition, insufficient for the functioning of the child's gastrointestinal tract and his life in general;
- High temperature outside the window (in the heat, the chair can be disturbed for 3 days stably);
- Low mobility of the child;
- Premature birth, premature baby;
- Deficiency of the child's body weight, both at birth and in the first months of life;
- Lactose intolerance;
- Rickets.
Pediatricians strongly advise against introducing as a rule to solve the problem of constipation in a child with the help of laxatives, one of which is glycerin suppositories. The best place to start is by changing your diet. For example, switch from a regular mixture to a fermented milk mixture and introduce juices, vegetable // fruit purees into the diet (from 4-6 months).
No toddler likes to take medication. The pills, especially if they are bitter, instantly disgust children. When a child is prescribed several types of drugs at the same time, then the parents have a slight shock. It only saves that today a large number of drugs are produced in the form of suppositories (suppositories).
Preparation- Before you light a candle for a baby, try to inspire confidence in him. Play with your baby, make contact. It is best for someone to help mom during this manipulation (dad, grandmother, grandfather).
- Before placing the baby, it is necessary that it warms up to room temperature. To make this happen faster, you can lower it in warm water or warm it up a little in your hands, without removing it from the package.
- After the suppository heats up, immediately before manipulation, the mother needs to thoroughly wash her hands and only then remove it from the package.
In order to properly put a candle for a baby from or another problem, lay him on his back, and taking both legs, lift them up, as if pressing them to the tummy. With the right hand, quickly, with a confident movement, insert the candle with the pointed end into the rectum.
Older children are usually laid on their side with their legs bent at the knees and pressed against the stomach.
After carrying out such a manipulation, it is necessary that the child lie down for at least 5 minutes. Otherwise, the candle may come out back due to reflex contraction of the rectal sphincter. It will be ideal if the child lies down for 30 minutes after the manipulation. In practice, this is almost impossible to achieve.
Thus, it is not so difficult to put candles for babies. The main thing is to follow the sequence, and perform the actions in the order described above.
When the need to light a candle for a baby for the first time arises, parents begin to get nervous, worrying about the baby's condition. Whether it will hurt him how to enter correctly, whether it is harmless - these and other questions haunt mothers and fathers. But in fact, everything is much simpler, it is important to follow some rules for using candles for infants and then nothing will threaten the baby's health.
Rules for using candles
Regardless of what kind of ailment (temperature, constipation) candles are used, it is important to adhere to the rules. To make the procedure more comfortable, safer and more effective will help compliance with basic requirements on the use of candles:
- It is necessary to store candles in the refrigerator, otherwise they will melt and cannot be used.
- You need to remove the candle from the package right before the procedure. You should not do this in advance, because germs can get on it.
- Before the procedure, hands should be washed with soap and dried.
- It is recommended to use candles after consulting a doctor.
Suppositories for constipation
If the baby's stool has become less frequent and the feces are rougher, but the child continues to go to the toilet on his own, you should not use heavy artillery. It is preferable to use teas based on fennel, foods that promote bowel movement.
If the baby hasn't been shit for 2-3 days, it's time to use candles. They should be used not for prevention, but for the treatment of a specific problem. You should not get carried away with such a remedy, so that the intestines do not get used to it to outside help. An overdose can lead to difficulties with stool in the future and then the baby will no longer be able to poop on its own without laxatives.
Suppositories for temperature
The baby's temperature is less than 38 degrees - not a reason for knocking down. The only task of parents is to create comfortable conditions for the child: moist and cool air, plenty of drink, dry clothes. It is necessary to enable the immune system to fight the virus on its own. If the temperature has exceeded 38 degrees, you can use candles.
Before carrying out the procedure, you need to cheer, distract the baby. You cannot light a candle to a screaming, tense child. In this case, with each new attempt, the baby will fall into hysterics, which will complicate the entry of the candle and facilitate its exit.
A child in a good mood, most likely, will not notice that a candle has been placed for him, the main thing is to do everything quickly and accurately.
- We put the baby on his back and distract him with a toy, songs, and conversations.
- Raise the legs and press them to the stomach.
- For convenience, you can lubricate the anus baby cream, this will make the process easier.
- Remove the candle with clean hands and lightly pinch the sharp edge with two fingers. This way we heat it up, it becomes soft and the typing process is simplified.
- We insert the candle into the anus quickly and accurately. When she disappears, we squeeze the baby's ass lightly with our hands and hold for a while to avoid her slipping back. At this stage, it is also important to keep your baby amused so that he is relaxed and does not fidget.
- In a few minutes, if the child is not capricious, we dress him.
Video instruction: how to put candles for a baby?
How often can you use glycerin candles?
Glycerin-based suppositories can be put on a baby no more than once every three days, no more than one piece. Increase the dosage only after consulting a doctor. If the first suppository triggered a bowel movement, then there is no need to continue treatment.
Sea buckthorn candles will also help against constipation, Glycelax no more than one candle per day.
Suppositories Nurofen for babies
The course of treatment with Nurofen suppositories as an antipyretic is 3 days (anesthetic - 5). Babies are allowed to use 1 candle 3-4 times a day. The interval between procedures is at least 6 hours.
At the first signs of temperature normalization or a drop below 38 degrees, treatment with them should be discontinued.
Often, high fever in infants is accompanied by diarrhea. In this case using candles is impractical, since it will only provoke the next emptying of the intestines and will be excreted along with the feces. Also, candles Vibrucol, Efferalgan, Tsefekod will help with temperature.
What to do if allergies, itching or irritation develop after using suppositories?
If, after the introduction of the candle, the baby began to cry and does not stop for a long time, perhaps he is worried about the burning sensation in the anus, provoked by the candle. Or, after a few days, you notice red spots on the baby's body - an allergy.
In these cases, the rectal treatment must be stopped and seek medical attention. As a rule, experts prescribe Suparstein in a dosage suitable for the age of the baby.
Sometimes, the use of candles for babies is not only the only, but also the most effective option. You should not refuse such treatment for fear of harming the child. It is necessary to observe the expiration dates of medicines, wash your hands before each procedure, and distract the child with conversations. You need to use candles to solve the problem, not for prevention.