What to eat for a 4-year-old with constipation

The most common gastrointestinal disease in children is constipation, mainly because the children are too young, their gastrointestinal functions have not yet fully developed, and their body's self-regulation ability is very poor. Therefore, if a child has symptoms of constipation, he or she should be treated internally and externally. When treating children's constipation, parents must be patient and not rush things. So what should a 4-year-old child with constipation eat? What do parents need to pay attention to?

A. Develop good eating and living habits

1. Make sure your child drinks enough water every day.

2. Encourage eating more fresh vegetables (spinach, celery, rapeseed, water spinach, cabbage), fruits (bananas, pears), and foods made from whole grains such as ordinary flour, corn, barley and other foods rich in fiber. Eat more vegetable juice, honey water, and vegetable porridge.

3. Develop the good habit of eating and sleeping on time. Form a regular human biological clock. This is beneficial to the normal function of children's gastric juice and helps digest food.

4. Avoid eating too much ice cream, cheese, refined rice, bananas, carrots, etc., because these foods can aggravate constipation in children.

5. Training bowel habits: Babies can be trained to have regular bowel movements from 3 to 4 months old. Because intestinal motility speeds up after eating, the urge to defecate often occurs, so it is generally advisable to let children defecate after eating. This will establish a conditioned reflex of defecation and achieve twice the result with half the effort.

B. Eat golden bifidobacteria factor

When children are constipated, probiotics will lack water and cannot reproduce. After consuming bifidobacterial factors, they can not only provide food for probiotics, but also maintain intestinal moisture and promote intestinal peristalsis. The nine strains are known as the "King of Bifidobacterium in the World". By highly selectively increasing bifidobacteria, they balance the intestinal microecology system, the largest microecology system in the human body, thereby playing a positive role in the host's nutrition, immunity, and the prevention and treatment of diseases. It is the guardian of the intestine, combining with intestinal mucosal cells to form a microbial barrier, inhibiting the growth of harmful bacteria, resisting the invasion of foreign pathogens, and enhancing human immunity.

If you want to relieve your child’s constipation symptoms, you can buy some fresh oranges, squeeze the juice, add some sugar to the orange juice, and let your child drink it. The symptoms of constipation will be relieved. To help children with bowel movements, you can break the soap into small soap bars, then wear rubber gloves and insert the soap bars into the child's anus, which can have a laxative effect.