What to eat for eight-month-old baby constipation

Defecation is a physiological phenomenon, through which waste and toxins in the human body are excreted. Generally speaking, healthy adults have at least one bowel movement a day, and eight-month-old babies usually have 1-2 bowel movements a day. If your baby is eating and drinking normally but has not had a bowel movement for several days, he or she is constipated. Baby constipation can cause a variety of diseases, so parents must pay great attention to it. So, what should an eight-month-old baby eat if he is constipated?

1. Intestinal moisturizing food

If the baby's constipation is caused by breast milk or formula feeding, you can add appropriate laxative foods, such as orange juice, red date juice, cabbage juice, etc.

2. Add complementary food

If a baby is constipated during the weaning period, you can add complementary foods. In addition to highly nutritious eggs, lean meat, liver and fish, you should also add vegetables, fruits and porridge with high fiber content, such as spinach, rapeseed, cabbage, celery, bananas, pears, etc.

3. Cereals and grains

When older children are constipated, you can add some whole grains to their diet, such as standard flour, potatoes, corn, barley, etc. Oily foods and cold boiled water can also help prevent and treat constipation. 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.

If your baby is constipated, you should pay attention to giving your baby more fresh vegetables and fruits in the complementary food, such as (bananas for lubricating the intestines and defecation). Vegetables and fruits can also be made into vegetable juice and fruit juice for your baby to drink. You should give your baby more warm boiled water, about 400ML a day. You can also add milk companion, Qinghuobao, etc. If the baby is breastfed, the mother's diet should also be adjusted. Eat less high-protein and high-fat foods, eat a light diet, and avoid spicy foods.

1. Recommended recipe 1: Egg custard

Beat the eggs in a bowl, add a small amount of cold boiled water, stir evenly, put it into rice or steam it in a steamer for about ten minutes until it becomes a soup-like texture and then it can be eaten.

2. Recommended recipe 2: Vegetable rice paste

Prepare appropriate amount of green vegetables and rice noodles. First, cook the tender leaves of green vegetables, then grind them into a paste and filter out the larger veins; then use warm water to brew rice noodles (you can also use milk); mix the vegetable paste into the rice noodles, stir well and it is ready to eat.

3. Recommended recipe 3: Lean meat porridge

Prepare appropriate amounts of rice, lean meat and pork ribs soup. First, boil a pot of pork ribs soup; then chop the lean meat into a paste and steam it in a steamer for about ten minutes; then cook the rice until it is soft. Finally, mix the minced meat, soft rice and an appropriate amount of pork ribs soup and cook it into porridge for consumption.