What to do if children have dry stools

For children, once they have dry stools, it is particularly easy to cause constipation. However, constipation always makes children feel particularly painful when defecating. If it is not relieved in time, it will have a certain impact on the child’s health. If constipation persists for a long time, it will also affect the child’s absorption of nutrients from food. Therefore, it must attract the attention of parents. For the healthy growth of children, let’s understand what to do if children have dry stools?

What to do if children have dry stools

1. First of all, you need to adjust your diet: children with constipation should drink more boiled water, because boiled water can easily pass through the biological membrane. Babies under 6 months old should drink more vegetable and fruit juice; babies over 6 months old can eat vegetable puree, chopped vegetables, and fruit puree, and babies over 1 year old can also add a small amount of yogurt every day; young children with constipation should reduce protein in the diet, increase whole grains such as sweet potatoes, and frequently increase vegetables, fruits and other foods containing plant fiber, especially after excessive intake of high-protein, high-calorie foods, they should drink water and eat fruits and vegetables in time. If babies under 1 year old do not have enough breast milk, they should try to supplement with formula milk instead of fresh milk.

2. Mechanical stimulation: Use a sterilized cotton swab coated with lubricating oil or cooking oil and insert it into the outer end of the child's anus to induce defecation through mechanical stimulation;

3. Helpless move: Do not use enema or soap heads frequently to relieve constipation, because once it becomes a habit, the normal "defecation reflex" disappears, making constipation more difficult to correct. Never take laxatives frequently, because children's digestive function is not perfect and taking laxatives may cause diarrhea.

4. Gently massage the abdomen: Massage the abdomen clockwise with the navel as the center, twice a day, 5-10 minutes each time, with gentle movements;

5. Increase normal intestinal flora: Oral medications suitable for treating constipation for infants and young children include Mami Love, Zhengchangsheng, Jinshuangqi tablets, Biostime, Simotang oral liquid, etc. However, please follow your doctor's advice on specific usage and dosage.

Constipation diet:

Heat-induced constipation

Dry and hard stool, dry mouth, bad breath, flushed face, abdominal distension and pain, short yellow urine, red tongue, yellow and dry tongue coating, and slippery and rapid pulse.

Treatment method: Clear heat and moisten the intestines.

(1) Water chestnut and jellyfish soup: 60 grams of water chestnut and 50 grams of jellyfish. Boil in water and drink.

(2) Cook bananas with rock sugar: 2 bananas, appropriate amount of rock sugar, add water and cook into soup.

(3) Spinach soup: 150 grams of spinach, appropriate amount of sesame oil. Cook the spinach, add salt to taste, and mix with sesame oil.

(4) Honey and sugarcane juice: Mix half a cup of honey and half a cup of sugarcane juice, and drink it on an empty stomach every morning and evening.

(5) Jellyfish juice: Peel the jellyfish, mash it and squeeze out the juice, add appropriate amount of honey. Take with cool boiled water.

(6) Rhubarb soaked in water: Put 3-5 grams of rhubarb into a cup, soak it in boiling water (about half a cup) for 15 minutes, add a little honey and drink. Suitable for severe heat knots. But it is not suitable for long-term use.

Qi deficiency constipation

The stool is not necessarily dry and hard. Although there is a desire to defecate, the patient is unable to struggle and if he struggles, he will sweat and feel short of breath. His face will become pale, he will feel tired and lazy to speak, his tongue will be pale, his tongue coating will be white, and his pulse will be weak.

Treatment method: Invigorate Qi and moisten the lower part.

(1) Sweet potatoes dipped in honey: 0.5 pound of sweet potatoes and an appropriate amount of honey. Wash and cook the sweet potatoes, dip them in honey and eat them regularly.

(2) Milk and glutinous rice porridge: 150 grams of milk, 50 grams of rice, and appropriate amount of white sugar. Cook the rice into porridge, add milk and sugar, cook for a while, and eat on an empty stomach.

(3) Almond sesame porridge: 10 grams of almonds, 20 grams of black sesame seeds, 50 grams of rice, and appropriate amount of rock sugar. Add water to the first three ingredients and cook into porridge, then add rock sugar and drink after it is dissolved.

(4) Lotus root and rice porridge: 250 g lotus root, 30 g rice. Wash and chop the lotus root, cook it in boiling rice porridge, add oil and salt, and eat it on an empty stomach in the morning.

(5) Astragalus and Polygonatum odoratum stewed with rabbit meat: 15 grams of astragalus, 12 grams of polygonatum odoratum, and appropriate amount of rabbit meat. Add water and cook, then season with salt and serve.

The above is an introduction to what to do if children have dry stools. After understanding it, we know that there are many reasons for this phenomenon. First of all, we must also adjust the children’s daily diet in time in life, give the children more boiled water, and also give the children more light food and fruits in their diet. This can have a good alleviating effect on children’s dry stools.