Effect of Reflexology on Infantile Colic. | Semantic Scholar (2025)

CST appears to be effective and safe for infantile colic by reducing the number of crying hours, the colic severity and increasing the total hours of sleep.

Reflexology treatment seems to be a safe and effective way to treat infants with colic when conducted by a health care professional with reflexology training and experience.

Assessing the level of maternal awareness towards infantile colic in Saudi Arabia found that postnatal maternal depression can occur as a result of infantile colic thereby psychological conflicts occur regarding the maternal role and inconsistent interaction styles with babies.

It was concluded that foot reflexology applied to neonates was effective both in reducing pain during and after the suctioning and in increasing comfort during andAfter the suctions.

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Reflexology before vaccine reduced the pain level experienced after vaccination, and future research needs to explore different interventional practices.

The authors suggest that acupuncture for infantile colic should be restricted to clinical trials, and find no statistically significant or clinically relevant effect in this randomized controlled trial.

The authors suggest that blinding validation questions, and the answers to these questions, should be reported in no-treatment controlled trials of acupuncture on infants, where the parents are blinded assessors of symptom reduction.

Minimal acupuncture shortened the duration and reduced the intensity of crying in infants with colic and was favouring the acupuncture group in the time which passed from inclusion until the infant no longer met the criteria for colic.

Four treatments with light needling on one point in the hand may alleviate crying and pain related behaviour without any noted side effects.

In a recent prospective single blind controlled study on the effects of minimal acupuncture in infantile colic, it was found that light needling at LI4 significantly reduced the rated crying intensity as compared with the control group.

Chiropractic spinal manipulation is no more effective than placebo in the treatment of infantile colic, emphasising the need for placebo controlled and blinded studies when investigating alternative methods to treat unpredictable conditions.

This study adds the rich description that was missing from the previous two qualitative studies of infant colic and adds fathers' perspectives of the experience of living with a colicky infant through indepth interviews.

Hydlysed formula was the most effective in reducing the duration of crying when compared with the other intervention groups, and massage intervention yielded the least symptomatic improvement among all the interventions.

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