How to Cure a Childs Stomach Ache

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Does your child have a sore tummy? Find out what to do here.

Steps

1. First you need to try to figure out why they have a stomach ache. Did they drink too much soda? Eat too much food? Do they have other symptoms?
   
2. Stomach aches can be very serious. If you find out the your child has swallowed a dangerous chemical or eaten something they shouldn't have, like a medicine tablet, call your local poison control center.
   
3. Does your child have other symptoms besides a sore stomach? Are they constipated, throwing up, or have a fever? Call the child's doctor or a local nurse line (most hospitals have a free nurse line) for advice.
   
4. If it is just a simple tummy ache, there are several things you can do.
   
5. You can give them an over the counter children's stomach ache remedy
   
6. Tell them to lie down on their side.
   
7. Have them drink a glass of water. 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).
   
8. You can 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)
   
9. You can distract them with a story or movie
   
10. Give them lots of hugs
    
11. Give them 1 piece of whole wheat bread no butter
    
12. Give them a warm bath
    
13. Warm a cloth in a microwave or a heating pad and put on your child's tummy.
    
14. Ask them if they need to go the the bathroom.
    
15. Giving a child Ginger ale, sprite, or any other thoroughly carbonated soda is good.
    
16. give them FRESH parsley
    

Tips

• Contact your doctor if you are not sure what to do
  
• Distracting the child is good so they won't be worried about it
  

Warnings

• Talk to your child and anyone else that he/she was with. Stomach aches can be serious, you need to find out as much background information as you can
  

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