What to do if your five-month-old baby doesn't poop

When babies are five months old, they are very cute. Mothers also take good care of their babies, fearing that they lack nutrition. Therefore, many mothers add complementary foods to their children. If children eat too much, they will suffer from constipation and indigestion. Let's talk about what to do if a five-month-old baby does not poop.

1. Food therapy: The first thing to do for infant constipation is to find out the cause. If the baby is breastfed and the constipation is caused by insufficient breast milk, the baby often suffers from weight loss, crying after eating, etc. For this type of constipation, the symptoms of constipation will be relieved as long as the amount of milk is increased. Babies who are fed with cow's milk are more prone to constipation, mostly because the casein content in cow's milk is too high, which makes the stool dry and hard. In this case, you can reduce the amount of milk and increase the amount of sugar, that is, increase the sugar content of milk from the original 5-8% to 10-12%, and increase the amount of juice appropriately. For babies under 3 to 4 months old, you can add some milk cake to the milk. Because the carbohydrates in the milk cake can stimulate intestinal peristalsis and help defecation after being partially fermented in the intestines. For babies over 4 to 5 months old, complementary foods can be added appropriately. It is best to chop spinach, cabbage, greens, shepherd's purse, etc., put them into rice porridge and cook them together to make a variety of delicious vegetable porridge for the baby.

2. 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.

3. Drug treatment: If the above methods do not work for infant constipation, enema can be used to relieve constipation. Enemas mainly contain glycerin and sorbitol, which can stimulate the intestines and have a laxative effect. Please note when using it. After the enema is injected into the anus, parents should clamp the buttocks on both sides with their hands to allow the enema liquid to remain in the intestines for a while, and then let the child defecate, so that the effect will be better.

4. Constipation conditioning recipe: Banana puree Main ingredients: 70 grams of bananas Seasoning: 10 grams of white sugar 5 grams of lemon juice Preparation: Wash the bananas, peel off the white silk, cut the bananas into small pieces, put them into a blender, add white sugar, a few drops of lemon juice, stir into even banana puree, pour into a small bowl, and then feed.

Preparation tips: Choose ripe bananas and wash them thoroughly; raw bananas have a bitter taste and cannot be fed to babies. How to eat: Breakfast, lunch, dinner Dish evaluation: This dish belongs to the baby recipe, and it has the function of regulating constipation and enteritis. Recipe nutrition: Banana: Bananas are high in nutrition and low in calories, making them a very good nutritious food. It contains protein, sugar, starch, pectin, various vitamins, and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, and iron. Bananas have the effects of moistening the intestines and promoting bowel movements, moistening the lungs and relieving coughs, clearing away heat and detoxifying, aiding digestion and nourishing the body.

What should I do if my five-month-old baby doesn’t poop? If your baby has constipation, you must consider the situation comprehensively, find out the reasons causing the condition, and then take the correct approach to help the baby. I hope this knowledge can help all mothers and solve this problem for their baby.