What are the causes of constipation in children

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After the child is born, it is in the healthy growth, so reasonable nutrition collocation is necessary, but daily parents due to improper feeding, coupled with irregular life or not on time defecation of normal training, and then cause children to appear serious constipation. So, what are the factors that cause constipation in children?

What are the causes of constipation in children

1. Constipation caused by improper food composition. Constipation may be caused by improper food composition. If the food contains a lot of protein, but the carbohydrate is insufficient, the intestinal flora will change, the intestinal fermentation process is less, and the stool is easy to appear alkaline and become dry. If the food contains more carbohydrates, the number of intestinal fermentation bacteria will increase, and the fermentation effect will also increase. The feces are more acidic, so the frequency of defecation will increase and soft. If you eat high fat and carbohydrates, your stool will be more moist. Therefore, in daily life, if children eat a lot of calcium casein, it will lead to feces containing a large amount of insoluble calcium soap, feces increase and easy constipation. Children are partial to food, do not like to eat vegetables, like to eat meat, but also prone to constipation because of too little cellulose.

2. Constipation caused by insufficient diet. In the breast milk or dairy products that the baby drinks, if the sugar content in the milk is insufficient, it will lead to weak gastrointestinal peristalsis and dry stool. If the diet is insufficient for a long time, it may cause malnutrition, low tension of abdominal and intestinal muscles, or even atrophy, leading to the weakening of contractility, forming a vicious circle and aggravating constipation.

3. Constipation caused by intestinal dysfunction. Irregular life or lack of regular defecation training will lead to the failure of defecation conditioned reflex, and then lead to constipation. Preschool children may have no defecation in the morning, and they can't defecate at any time during class time. Often holding their stool is also one of the common causes of constipation. And some commonly used cathartic or enema, lack of physical activity, also easily lead to constipation.

matters needing attention

Now we all know the specific pathogenic factors of constipation in children. We hope that parents and friends should pay active attention to it in daily life, especially the reasonable diet and feeding mentioned above, and strengthen the habit of defecation. As long as we never start from small details, children will not have constipation.