How can we help a baby with a
colic? Most of the time parents go with easy alternatives to treat baby’s colic
which is to administrate pharmaceutical product or have a car ride with music
on, but these are not the proper or correct way of treating a baby with colic.
The main reason of colic is that they have a microbial imbalance
in their gut. Babies obtain their intestinal flora by the consumption of breastmilk
which gives the very first and beneficial microbes that are Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus, but sometimes the flora of the baby have an imbalance.
The predominance of the lactate utilizing bacteria that are Veillonella ratti and Eubacterium hallii against the sulfate reducing
bacteria (SRB) cause the more production of H2 leading to baby colic. The best way to help a baby is to
change the milk or the formula with the addition of potential Lactobacillus as probiotic to have a
better and balance interaction of baby’s intestinal flora and get rid of the
colic. Is still unknown how babies generate the imbalance microbial gut, but
testing will be created in the near future.
Image taken from Pham et al. 2017
Citation: Pham VT, Lacroix C, Braegger CP, Chassard C. (2017).
Lactate-utilizing community is associated with gut microbiota dysbiosis in
colicky infants. Scientific Reports 7. e-pub ahead of print, doi:
10.1038/s41598-017-11509-1.
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