How To Cure Stomach Ache In Kids

It was a hard time soothing my little girl when she had a bad stomach ache. Couldn't stop her from crying. So just went through some sites and found very useful tips for all moms to cure stomach ache in kids.
Hope these tips will help you all.

• Try to figure out why they have a stomach ache : Did they drink too much soda or had too much food? Do they have other symptoms?
• Stomach aches can be serious! If you find out that your child has swallowed a dangerous chemical or eaten something they shouldn't have, like a medicine tablet, call your local poison control center.
• Does your child have other symptoms besides a sore stomach? Are they constipated, throwing up, or have a fever? 
• Take the child's temperature and call the child's doctor or a local nurse line (most hospitals have a free nurse line, but usually only say to go to the hospital or doctor's office.) for advice.
• If it is just a simple tummy ache, there are several things you can do:
• You can give them an over the counter children's stomach ache remedy.
• Tell them to lie down on their side. Encourage rest and sleeping.
• Have them drink a glass of water, but slowly. Stomach aches can occur when there is an acidity imbalance in the stomach due to the digestion of certain food/drinks and in certain combinations. Drinking lots of water will naturally dilute this imbalance (by comparison, over the counter stomach ache remedies work by neutralizing the acid in your stomach).
• Give them papaya, ginger or peppermint (in any form - fresh or dried, ingredient in foods, candy peppermints, or a chewable papaya pill found mostly at natural food stores)
• Distract them with a story or movie.
• Give them lots of hugs.
• Give them 1 piece of whole wheat bread or toast, no butter.
• Don't give them oily food and milk.
• Give them a warm bath.
• Warm a cloth in a microwave or a heating pad and put on your child's stomach.
• Ask them if they have to go the bathroom.
• Call the doctor if stomach ache doesn't get better in 24 hours.
• Get fresh, cool (but not cold) air.
• Rub some oil (not cooking oil) onto their stomach and leave it for a while.
• Lay down on your left side. Laying on your left side will cause the pain to go away because the acid or gas in the stomach is rising up and causing them to need to burp.
• Keep feet elevated. Doing that will help the pain go away.
• Make them a cup of tea, preferably chamomile
• Sometimes a sore stomach can be very serious so call a doctor if it hasn't cleared up in a 24 hours
• Some times your child may not be able to handle toast if not buy vegetable soup and put a scoop of mash in it if you can't buy soup go into a cafe and ask for it, and then if you want add wheat bread!
• Don't give them any soda. It will make the stomach ache worse.
• Distracting the child is good so they won't be worried about it. Also, if you are showing a movie, a drama is a good genre, because it allows the child to think about something else, thereby diverting their mind from the pain.
• Try to keep the room that your child is in cooled down.
• Convince him/her to lie down on the couch or in bed, let your child watch a movie or favorite tv show. Peppermint extract in water works well to soothe the stomach.
• Ask them if they had too much to eat, overeating can cause bloating or stomach aches.
• If the bug is going around your child may just have a different type of bug with big stomach pains!
• Don't panic or stress the child out.
• Lay down on your left side. Laying on your left side will cause the pain to go away because the acid or gas in the stomach is rising up and causing them to need to burp.
• Don't give them any oily foods and soda and or junk food.
• Give them some ginger ale and take them to the bathroom .