What to do if your child can't poop?

Not only adults will suffer from constipation, many children are also prone to constipation, because children usually love to eat snacks, all kinds of spicy strips and biscuits, coupled with not paying attention to drinking water can cause children to become constipated. In order to prevent this phenomenon, in addition to proper water supplementation, certain effective treatments must be given to prevent frequent constipation.

Diet

The most important thing in treating constipation in children is to focus on conditioning and nursing. Try to adjust the dietary structure, diversify the diet, and let children eat more fruits, vegetables and other foods rich in crude fiber.

Taste. Finally, pay attention to replenishing water. Drink a glass of honey water or cold boiled water on an empty stomach half an hour after getting up in the morning and before each meal. This can help moisturize the intestines and promote bowel movements. For children who still have constipation after adjustment, appropriate medication can be used for treatment.

According to experts, most children's constipation is caused by deficiency syndrome. They can take some probiotics for treatment, such as Changyi probiotics, to completely solve the baby's constipation problem.

Lifestyle adjustment

If a child is found to be constipated for a long time, the real reason should be found out. At this time, attention should also be paid to treating children's constipation, and improving diet is a key point. Control the intake of commercially available children's foods such as cereals, cakes, and biscuits; encourage them to drink more water; fiber foods such as carrots, green vegetables, bamboo shoots, potatoes, corn, etc. should be their common table dishes. In addition, changing your lifestyle habits is also important. Cultivate good habits of going to bed early and getting up early and defecating in the morning. After persisting for a period of time, constipation will improve or be cured. If the constipation is particularly severe, you can use laxatives under the guidance of a doctor, but you must not use laxatives frequently or for a long time on your own. Otherwise, the constipation will not be cured and new symptoms will be added.

How to judge

If a child does not have a bowel movement for four days or more, and when he does, his stool is quite hard, then it should be considered that the child has constipation.

According to statistics, 19.8% of urban children (under 12 years old) in my country suffer from constipation, which means that about one in every five children is afflicted with constipation.

Not necessarily get angry

Whether you have bowel movements only once every few days or every day, judging from the characteristics of your stool, it may be considered constipation. Constipation is a very common disease among children. Some children do not have a bowel movement within a few days after they are one month old, and this is often seen in outpatient clinics. Constipation is mainly treated with Chinese medicine. This conditioning actually starts from the spleen and stomach, because I believe that constipation is caused by spleen and stomach disharmony and gastrointestinal dysfunction, rather than the general saying that constipation is caused by getting angry. Because I have seen this repeatedly in clinical practice, after patients come, some parents say that their children have gotten angry and they give them some fire-reducing medicine. My treatment of constipation is different from the general view. I am against the use of heat-clearing and fire-reducing medicines, but instead start from the perspective of regulating the spleen and stomach.

Is the child suffering from heat? Even though he is constipated, his tongue is not that red. If it is light red, the tongue coating is generally white, sometimes very thin, sometimes slightly thicker. In this case, it is definitely not suffering from heat. If he is suffering from heat, the tongue itself is very red and the tongue coating is very white. Judging from this point, it is definitely not suffering from heat. Therefore, the use of anti-heat medicine may not have any effect at the time, but the more you use it, the less effective it will be, because anti-heat medicine will damage the spleen and stomach.

Eat more fruits and vegetables, drink more water, go to the toilet regularly to avoid constipation

The increase in constipation in children is related to the dry weather. Dry weather can easily deplete body fluids, leading to dry intestines. In addition, most children drink little water, which will inevitably affect the normal peristalsis of the intestines and cause difficulty in defecation. In fact, children are prone to constipation all year round, not just in the dry season. This is mainly due to their unhealthy lifestyles such as being picky eaters, having partial eating habits, and not developing good bowel habits.

Nowadays, most children prefer high-protein foods such as lean meat and milk, or sweets such as beverages and candies, and do not like to eat vegetables and fruits. If you eat too much refined food and too little crude fiber in your diet, it will inhibit intestinal peristalsis and affect bowel movements over time.

In addition, many children, due to their love of play and greed, hold their bowel movements when they want to, causing the rectum to gradually lose its normal sensitivity to the pressure stimulation of feces. In addition, the feces stay in the body for too long, the water is repeatedly absorbed, the stool becomes drier and drier, and it becomes more difficult to excrete.