What should a three-year-old baby eat if he is constipated?

The physical fitness of a three-year-old baby is still relatively low. If you are not careful, it will cause some inevitable side effects. This has a very bad impact. You must pay attention to regulating their bodies. If constipation occurs, you must start with the diet. Most of the time, it is a symptom caused by your child’s bad eating habits. In this case, you need to let them eat more light food and stop eating hard food.

1. Alleviate the patient's psychological anxiety and fear, provide comfort and encouragement, and build confidence in recovery.

2. Drink more boiled water. You can drink a cup of warm boiled water every morning to moisten the intestines. If there are no contraindications, drink at least 2000ml of fluid per day. Eat more foods rich in fiber, such as wheat, beans, vegetables, fruits, etc.

3. Observe the patient's bowel movements, the nature and amount of stool, and actively look for the cause of constipation.

4. Instruct the patient to do appropriate activities, such as abdominal massage, sit-ups to train the abdominal muscles and levator ani muscles, etc.

5. Develop the habit of regular bowel movements. Even if you don’t feel like defecation, you should insist on going to the toilet regularly and squatting for 10 to 20 minutes. Over time, you will develop the habit of regular bowel movements.

Other symptomatic treatments, such as local (abdominal) heat compresses, use of laxatives, enemas, suppositories, and manual defecation can assist in defecation. [1]

(I) Treatment of organic constipation: Treat the primary disease.

(II) Treatment of non-organic constipation

1. Use strict non-surgical treatment first

(1) Improve your lifestyle to make it compatible with the physiology of gastrointestinal transit and defecation movements. Increase dietary fiber intake and water intake, develop good bowel habits, and increase exercise.

(2) Adjusting the psychological state helps to establish normal defecation reflex.

(3) Treating the primary disease and concomitant diseases is beneficial to the treatment of constipation.

(4) Avoid drug factors as much as possible to reduce constipation that may be caused by various types of drugs.

(5) Drug treatment should be selected according to the pathophysiology that causes constipation. For slow-transit constipation, intestinal motility drugs should be used, and bulk-forming laxatives, lubricating laxatives, and stimulant laxatives should be selected appropriately. The misuse of laxatives should be avoided.

(6) Biofeedback therapy to correct improper and ineffective bowel movements.

(7) Treatment with traditional Chinese medicine.

After a period of strict non-surgical treatment with little effect, various special examinations show clear pathological anatomy and definite functional abnormalities, surgical treatment can be considered. The surgical indications should be carefully determined and the appropriate surgical procedure should be selected according to the lesions. When multiple lesions exist at the same time, surgery should be performed to resolve the main lesion causing constipation, but also to resolve the secondary or secondary lesions at the same time.