Where does the child cry most?

Researchers have concluded that the most crying babies live in countries like England, Italy, Canada, and the Netherlands. And the children with the least fuss are in countries like Denmark, Germany and Japan.

The research team from the University of Warwick, UK, explained how children cry and children who cry less live. Research results have been published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

The common cause of prolonged crying in babies is abdominal pain . But abdominal pain is a symptom of a disease that rarely occurs and usually disappears after 4 months. The cause and limited number of treatments for colic in children are what worries many parents.

The number of babies crying due to abdominal pain is based on Wessel criteria: babies begin abdominal pain within the first three weeks, the pain lasts about three hours a day and mainly occurs in the first three months children's life. And in response to pain, babies often cry.

The common cause of prolonged crying in babies is abdominal pain.

The Wessel criterion was formed in the 1950s. The field of child care in the past 50 years has undergone significant changes, requiring new standards to measure abnormal crying levels in children.

The researchers analyzed the data of nearly 8,700 newborns from different countries such as Germany, Denmark, Japan, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom and have statistics on children in different countries. crying for 1 day.

The results showed that, on average, babies spend almost 2 hours a day crying in the first 2 weeks. From the 6th week, the baby cries at most 2 hours 15 minutes / day, then decreases to 1 hour and 10 minutes in the 12th week / day.

The study also showed that in some countries babies only cry for 30 minutes a day, in other countries it can be up to 5 hours / day.

The duration of crying is proportional to how often the child experiences abdominal pain. In the UK, 20% of babies have colic in the age of 1-2 weeks, in Canada is 34.1% of children aged 3-4 weeks, in Italy is 20.9% of children aged 8-9 weeks . The lowest level was recorded in Denmark (5.5% of children aged 3-4 weeks) and in Germany (6.7% of children aged 3-4 weeks).

Researchers have not identified the cause of the difference. They change based on narrowing social inequalities to greater parental responsibility for caring for children and from other genetic factors.

The duration of crying is proportional to how often the child experiences abdominal pain.

Professor Dieter Wolke, the study's lead author, concluded: "Infants are clearly differentiated based on how much they cry in the first weeks of life. We can learn many new things when understand cultures - where children cry less, that can be affected by parental care or other relevant factors, such as genetics, new criteria of this rule will help doctors explain to parents when a baby cries at a normal rate and has nothing to worry about or need to look more closely ".

However, there is a fact that children who eat breastmilk have more frequent abdominal pain than children who eat full milk or mixed meals.

According to scientists, future research will help identify the causes of children with less abdominal pain in some countries. This information can make the lives of millions of families around the world a lot easier.