What to do if your one and a half year old baby has hard stools

One and a half year old babies are prone to dry stools because they have little exercise and weak gastrointestinal motility. Even if you have regular bowel movements and the frequency is normal, once a day, but the stool is dry and hard, defecation is still difficult. In addition, some parents do not make reasonable arrangements for their children's diet. Eating more fruits and vegetables or not feeding their children enough water can also cause dry and hard stools in babies.

Parents can give their children fruit laxative tablets or use enema to induce diarrhea, and ask them to drink more boiled water, eat more light and easily digestible food, and avoid spicy and irritating food and greasy fried food. Take your children to do proper exercise to keep them in a good mood and have an optimistic attitude towards life. To prevent children from getting angry, you can eat more melon foods, such as winter melon, watermelon, melon, loofah, bitter melon, etc.; ensure that children eat enough vegetables and fruits, especially dark green vegetables, in moderation every day. You can also give your children some Chinese herbal teas, such as honeysuckle tea, bamboo leaf tea, reed root tea, etc. If the baby has got a fever, the diet must be light, with more vegetables and fruits. You can also give the baby some milk companion or Qinghuobao, avoid fried, greasy, spicy and irritating foods, and increase the child's water intake appropriately. Also, the clothes you give your baby should be appropriate and not too thick. You can massage your baby's belly every day, gently pushing and kneading in a clockwise direction. It can speed up the baby's intestinal peristalsis and promote defecation.

There are many methods and medicines to solve the problem of dry and hard stools in babies, but it is still necessary to gradually improve and adjust daily living and eating habits. After all, it will be very troublesome if it becomes a physical habit in the future. Therefore, as a parent, don’t just breastfeed your child, as this can easily cause your child to get a sore throat. You can drink more water and eat some fruits and vegetables.