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Infant Reflux Disease. Sometimes called gastroesophageal reflux ger the condition is rarely serious and becomes less common as a baby gets older. Swallowing or gulping after burping or feeding. Most babies should be placed on their backs to sleep even if they have reflux. Reflux occurs in healthy infants multiple times a day.
In babies with acid reflux food backs up in the baby s stomach and causes them to spit up. These infants are also called happy spitters. Acid reflux in infants can be treated with changes in feeding burping and sleeping position or in some cases medication or surgery. Irritability during feeding wet burps or hiccups abnormal arching and failure to gain weight can be an. Most babies should be placed on their backs to sleep even if they have reflux. Remember infant reflux is usually little cause for concern.
Symptoms of reflux in babies include.
Put baby to sleep on his or her back. Being unsettled during feeding. It s unusual for infant reflux to continue after age 18 months. Sometimes babies may have signs of reflux but will not bring up milk or be sick. Ger disease gerd occurs when reflux of the gastric contents causes symptoms that affect the quality of life or pathologic complications such as failure to thrive feeding or sleeping problems chronic respiratory disorders esophagitis hematemesis apnea and apparent life threatening events. Gastroesophageal reflux ger happens when an infant s lower esophageal sphincter is not fully developed and the muscle lets the stomach contents back up the esophagus.