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

Children's spleen and stomach are delicate, so babies can only drink breast milk when they are just born, and then gradually add some complementary foods, such as rice porridge, vegetable porridge, fruit porridge, or egg custard. Children have weak spleen and stomach and can only eat liquid food or soft, easily digestible food. Therefore, you should pay close attention to your baby's bowel movements to see if the baby has diarrhea or constipation.

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.

2. Regulate the baby's diet

If the baby is breastfed, the constipation caused by insufficient breast milk often leads to symptoms such as failure to gain weight and crying after eating. For this type of constipation, the symptoms will be relieved as long as the amount of milk is increased; if the baby is fed with milk powder, constipation is more likely to occur, which is mostly because the casein content in 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. For babies under 3 to 4 months old, you can add some milk cake to the milk. 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 the above methods are still ineffective, you can use enema to relieve constipation. 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. The effect is very good, but this method should not be used frequently.

4. If there is digestive tract malformation or genetic metabolic disease

Seek medical attention promptly and ask a specialist to treat it.

1. Inappropriate food ingredients

Constipation is closely related to the composition of food. For example, if the food contains too much protein and insufficient sugar, intestinal fermentation will be relatively reduced, affecting fermentation, making the stool alkaline and dry, leading to constipation. Food (such as milk powder) contains a large amount of casein, and the feces contain a large amount of insoluble calcium soap, which causes an increase in feces and easy constipation.

2. Long-term inadequate diet

When children eat too little, there is less residue in the intestines after digestion and the stool decreases; insufficient sugar in milk causes dry stools; insufficient diet for a long time leads to malnutrition, which makes the abdominal and intestinal muscles weak, lack of tension, and weak peristalsis, leading to stubborn constipation.

3. Bowel function problems

Due to irregular life and bowel movements, the defecation reflex is weakened or not formed; the intestinal muscles are relaxed and constipation occurs. Certain drugs or diseases that can weaken the intestinal wall muscle tone and cause dysfunction, as well as abnormal sympathetic nerve function, can cause constipation.

4. Abnormal development of the digestive tract

Congenital imperforate anus, congenital megacolon.

5. Genetic metabolic diseases: congenital hypothyroidism, congenital idiocy.