What to do if a nine-year-old child is constipated

A friend's child is almost nine years old. For some reason, he has been constipated recently. He used to go to the toilet once a day to defecate, but recently it takes several days or even a week. The child feels very uncomfortable, and the parents are very anxious. Seeing her like this, they feel anxious for her and hope to find a way to help her solve this big problem, so they asked some more experienced people for advice.

Treating constipation

Local stimulation of the rectum or anus. Dip your fingers in soapy water and massage your baby's anus. This method can effectively stimulate the baby's anus, relax the anal sphincter and facilitate defecation.

Get an abdominal massage. If your baby is constipated, you can use both palms to gently massage the baby's abdomen, including the stomach and intestines, clockwise or counterclockwise one hour after a meal. This can promote the baby's gastrointestinal motility and relieve constipation symptoms.

The massage method is to place the palm of your hand or four fingers together on the baby's belly button and massage clockwise for a few minutes to make the intestines move and accelerate the discharge of feces.

Increase the amount of fruit juice appropriately, such as orange juice, kiwi juice, apple juice, dragon fruit juice, etc., because after the sugar is partially fermented in the intestine, it can stimulate intestinal peristalsis and help defecation. Eat more crude fiber vegetables. For example, celery puree can enhance gastrointestinal motility and help the normal excretion of stool when eaten by babies.

Although laxative drugs are effective quickly, they are not a good way to "cure the root cause". It can easily cause gastrointestinal dysfunction and diarrhea in babies.

Drink more water. Only by drinking more water can babies relieve the condition of dry and hard stools and excrete stools more smoothly.

Eat a banana every day. Bananas can effectively relieve the symptoms of dry and hard stools and have a certain effect on treating constipation.

I hope the above methods can help her, and I hope this problem can be solved as soon as possible so that the child doesn’t suffer so much. However, eating habits still need to be changed. It is probably because of the recent holidays that the eating habits have been a bit messy. The parents didn’t pay attention and the child probably ate too many fried and irritating foods, and then drank beverages instead of water. Therefore, we should pay more attention to the child’s eating habits in normal times, so as to avoid this situation from happening again.