GASTRITIS
Incoördinations of the stomach alone are less frequent in infancy than are those of the intestines. Usually the stomach and intestines are involved at the same time and it becomes impossible to differentiate the two. The greater part of digestion during infancy takes place in the intestinal tract, the stomach acting more as a receptacle for the milk from which food passes slowly into the intestinal tract to be properly digested. In an infant one month old the stomach will be empty one and one-half hours after nursing; in bottle-fed babies it will take a little longer. From two to eight months of age the time is about two hours for breast-fed babies and from two and a half to three hours for those taking cow’s milk.