The key to ending colic

Melbourne researchers have found that a low-Fodmap diet can reduce colic in babies.

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4th February, 2012

After listening to your baby’s high-pitched screaming and crying for several hours a day, day after day, week after week, it must come as little comfort when your doctor confirms your baby has infantile colic. Perhaps even less impressive is the range of solutions offered to soothe your baby’s pain – because there are few treatment options and no definitive fix. Exactly what causes colic in somewhere between 5% and 25% of newborn babies in the first few months of their lives is unknown. And although there is light at the end of the tunnel – colic typically resolves itself by four ...

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