How to relieve infant constipation

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In daily life, many children will have constipation, which will cause abdominal pain and seriously affect the health of children. Usually, we need to pay attention to this situation. In daily life, parents should understand the symptoms as soon as possible and help children treat reasonably. Then, what are the methods to solve children's constipation? Let's learn about it.

How to relieve infant constipation

First: food therapy: first of all to find the cause of infantile constipation, if the Department of breast-feeding, insufficient breast milk caused by constipation, often do not gain weight, crying after eating and so on. For this kind of constipation, as long as you increase the amount of milk, the symptoms of constipation will be relieved immediately. Milk fed infants are more likely to have constipation, which is mostly due to the excessive casein content in milk, which makes the stool dry and hard. In this case, the amount of milk can be reduced and the amount of sugar can be increased, that is, the sugar content of milk can be increased from 5-8% to 10-12%, and the juice can be increased appropriately. Infants less than 3-4 months old can add some milk cake to their milk. Because the carbohydrate in the milk cake ferments partially in the intestine, it can stimulate the peristalsis of the intestine and help to defecate. For infants over 4-5 months old, supplementary food can be added appropriately. It is better to chop spinach, cabbage, green vegetables, shepherd's purse, etc. and cook them in rice porridge to make various delicious porridge for babies. Vegetables contain a lot of cellulose and other food residues, which can promote intestinal peristalsis and achieve the purpose of defecation. In addition, complementary foods contain a large number of B vitamins, which can promote the recovery of intestinal muscle tension and is very helpful for defecation. Infants with constipation after the above diet adjustment effect is still poor, can give the baby drink honey water, that is, often take honey water or put honey into milk feeding, the effect is better. You can also eat some plantain, which can play the role of moistening intestines and defecating in a short time.

Second: training defecation habits: infants from 3 to 4 months can train regular defecation. As the intestinal peristalsis is accelerated after eating, it is often easy to defecate. Therefore, it is generally advisable to let children defecate after eating, so as to establish the conditioned reflex of defecation, which can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Third: drug treatment: infantile constipation by the above method is still ineffective, you can use kaisailu defecation. Kaisailu mainly contains glycerin and sorbitol, which can stimulate the intestines and play the role of defecation. Attention should be paid when using it. After injecting kaisailu into the anus, parents should clamp both sides of the buttocks with their hands, keep kaisailu liquid in the intestines for a while, and then let the child defecate. The effect is good. In the family, the soap head can also be inserted into the anus of the child, which also has the effect of defecation.

matters needing attention

Castor oil is also a good product for defecation. It can be used in infants with constipation, 5-10 ml each time. The effect of defecation is remarkable. It can also be replaced by soybean oil, but it must be boiled and cooled before eating. 5-10 ml each time.