Baby colics: from pathogenesis to treatment
Ruzhentsova T.A.

«Central Research Institute of Epidemiology» of The Federal Service on Customers’ Rights Protection and Human Well-being Surveillance, Moscow

Baby colics are the most common cause of the parents’ appeals to pediatricians in the first year of a child’s life. In most cases, colic appear on the 2–4th week of the baby’s life and ends by the end of the 4–5th month. The article presents basic information about the pathogenesis of baby colic. It emphasizes the influence of various factors characteristic of children in the first months of life: the immaturity of the digestive and nervous systems, as well as the instability and imbalance of micro-flora as the cause of their development. In some children, the predominant cause of colic is improper feeding with fast sucking, aerophagia, overfeeding, forcible feeding or incorrect dilution of the formula. Questions of diagnostics and differential diagnostics with careful exception of organic pathology requiring special therapy or surgical interventions are considered. The possible methods of treatment and the reasons for the frequent ineffectiveness of various therapeutic approaches are described. The indications for the appointment of simethicone (Bobotic) in drops as an effective drug of the first choice for stopping infant colic, regardless of the prevailing link of pathogenesis, are justified.

Key words: meteorism, infant, colic, simethicone, Bobotic.
For citation: Ruzhentsova T.A. Baby colics: from pathogenesis to treatment // RMJ. 2018. № 5(II). P. 82–85.