What to do if the baby does not defecate for 6 days

If a baby has not had a bowel movement for six days, it depends on whether the child's bowel movements were regular before. If the child's bowel movements have always been regular but suddenly start to become irregular, it is likely that the symptom is caused by recent inflammation. The main factor that has not changed needs to be found, and then reasonable treatment and examination should be carried out to alleviate the problem of irregular bowel movements.

When your baby has difficulty defecating, you can apply some vegetable oil on your fingers and gently massage around the baby's anus for a while or use a cotton swab dipped in oil to insert into the anus.

Keep it for 2-3 minutes to help with bowel movements. These measures should not be used frequently to prevent suppressing the baby's defecation reflex and forming dependence.

If babies do not have bowel movements, it is easy to cause malnutrition, anal fissures, hemorrhoids and rectal prolapse, so early treatment and early prevention should be sought.

1. Change the dietary structure: Breastfeeding is advocated. Breastfeeding mothers should pay attention to a balanced diet and should not overeat high-protein foods such as eggs, beef, shrimp, crabs, etc. They should eat more vegetables and fruits as much as possible. When a breastfed baby suffers from constipation, you can add additional laxative foods, such as sweetened vegetable juice, orange juice, honey water, sweetened condensed milk, etc.

2. Artificially-fed babies are prone to constipation. You can reduce the amount of milk they drink appropriately and add complementary foods, such as adding sugar to milk, feeding them honey, pear juice, orange juice, tomato juice, vegetable juice, etc., to stimulate intestinal peristalsis and promote defecation. Young children can eat more vegetables, fruits, whole grains, sweet potatoes, etc.

4. Develop good bowel habits. It is recommended that children have a bowel movement once a day, preferably after dinner. Do not change your bowel movement time or reduce your bowel movement frequency at will unless absolutely necessary. For children with constipation, they can be asked to squat before defecation to increase abdominal pressure, or the abdomen can be massaged in a clockwise direction to promote intestinal peristalsis and achieve the purpose of defecation.

5. Traditional Chinese medicine has a good effect on children's constipation. Chinese medicine believes that this disease is caused by gastrointestinal heat, lack of fluid and dry intestines. The principle of treatment should be nourishing yin and clearing heat, moistening the intestines and promoting bowel movements. You can use 10 grams each of hemp seed, Trichosanthes seed, Achyranthes bidentata, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, and Scrophularia ningpoensis (reduce the amount for infants), decocted in water and drunk to treat constipation.