Etiología y tratamiento del cólico del lactante: Revisión bibliográfica

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Infant Colic (IC) is a habitual disorder in the first months of life of the newborn child. The babies have one inconsolable weeping on evening - night approximately at the same hour every day at least in one week and are for everything else healthy, the weeping accompanies on other signs as the reddening, flatulence and shake movements of legs. Although the IC is a common disturbance the etiology he does not understand himself completely nor the possible guidelines of treatment. DESCRIPTION: there was realized a bibliographical review of documents of scientific companies, systematic reviews and scientific studies. The articles have been selected looking that were centred on the etiology as on the treatment of the IC excluding those who were not relevant CONCLUSIONS: The selected articles seem to indicate that there isn’t only a scientific reason defined for the IC though yes there are different studied hypotheses. It is difficult to study the IC since the authors have used such subjective information as the observations of the time of weeping for the keepers. They are necessary specific results, quantifiable and objective. The auto-limited nature of the colic has prevented the use of the invasive investigations. Bearing in mind the favourable course of the IC, the range of forms in which it demonstrates and the variability of the time of weeping, there must be adopted a therapeutic sure approach and the directives might be useful adapted. Nevertheless, still there is a need of the major one the investigation and the modification of the current resources.