Massage in the umbilical hernia

When parents find the child's umbilical hernia, you start to worry and to consult specialists who can recommend those or other tools to help deal with it - it can be a special plasters and bandages, but in the first place are always massage and gymnastics.

Massage for children up to four months

Massage in the umbilical hernia can be done only when the umbilical wound is completely healed, that is not earlier than in three weeks, but usually - when the child is a month. Prerequisite for the meeting: the child must be healthy.

The massage is performed in a warm room, prior to feeding, and should bring joy to a child, that is not allowed baby crying - this massage will bring more harm than good.

The child is placed on a hard surface - a steady changing table or a table covered with a blanket and diaper.

The following manipulations are carried out:

• Child rotated on its right side - in this situation persists for several seconds, then - on the left - twice for each side
• Gently lift the baby by the handles from the "supine" in a semi-erect position, then lowered - 6 times. In this exercise, you need to make sure that the head is not greatly deviated ago.
• Slow revolutions from the back to the belly of one and the other side for 2 times.
• Reflex creeping. The child lies on his stomach. Con at his feet, his hand, which he pushed away and "creeps" - 2 times.

Just massage:

• Gentle stroking umbilical region in a clockwise direction - five times.
• Collective movement from the periphery to the navel - thirty seconds.
• Massaging the abdominal oblique muscles without the use of force, very gently - five times.
• Light stroking from the navel to the periphery - five times.

The whole complex takes less than five minutes and is done three times a day, bringing joy to a child. Children under four months of massage can be carried out through the diaper and shirt so as not to injure the delicate skin.

Massage for children from five months to two years

Children of this age are mobile enough, so massage should be a game for them, which my mother gently and kindly spent with them three times a day, bringing pleasure. Massage is best done before feeding.

• Circular strokes umbilical region in a clockwise direction - ten - twenty times.
• Rubbing abdominal muscles - thirty seconds.
• Stroking clockwise - five times.
• Tingling around the navel - thirty seconds.
• Stroking clockwise - five times.
• "Rain" - fingertips Tapping around the navel - thirty seconds.
• Stroking clockwise - five times.
• "Twist" - the middle finger of his right hand placed in the navel, and the neighboring fingers arranged side by side, without changing the position of the fingers to produce twist - turning left and right, 10 times in both directions, without causing discomfort to the child.
• Stroking clockwise - 5 times.

Massage for children over two years

You can use a small amount of baby oil.

• The circular motion around the navel - 18 times
• Held twice in the left part of the abdomen of the child from top to bottom.
• Act gently on the left side of the abdomen upward and to the right - 2 times.
• We provide a gentle semicircle below left movement across the upper abdomen and right down.
• "Rain", quite pronounced tapping fingertips, first on the sides of the navel, and then the top and bottom.
• Circular motion umbilical region clockwise - 18 times.

If the hernia is still present, four - five years, it can be operated.

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