Causes and treatment of constipation in children from 1-12 months old

Constipation is quite common in young status from 1-12 months old and is very easy to detect due to the follow the child's bowel frequency. Children can suffer from constipation if older bowels below 2 times/day for infantsunder 3 times a week with her mother breast-fed, under 2 times/week for older children.

Causes of constipation in infants

Constipation signs are dry and solid than normal causing the child's bowel trouble and older suffer from irritation and bleeding while bowel. If the stool on hold which are not eliminated from the body causing abdominal pain and children eat. Depending on the age and diet of which there are many different causes of causes of constipation in babies.

Babies sucking mother's not enough

Experts recommend that parents should parent feeding completely for at least during the first 6 months of life. Breast milk more nutrients and fiber the soluble components of good support for baby's intestinal tract. However many parents pause as though suckling mother completely in the first 6 months of life but she was constipated.

Many parents also said that because his milk too hot should lead to the phenomenon of children. But in fact, by the way the breastfeeding mom's not properly led children with apples. The mother should breastfeed the baby needed milk intake enough. The fix is simply to suck a whole lot more about the number of times and each time suck.

In mother's milk contains the hormone Motilin increase peristalsis of the baby, the baby's movement more easily. So the goal of the newborns is fairly easy because breast milk easier to digest than other foods.

Children with lack of water

Diet affects so many children. The digestive system of young children should be very easy to be affected. Children can suffer constipation due to a lack of water. The body of the child affected by weather or temperature is affected by the side effects of antibiotics.

Also the diet of the child or the mother's little water, too much protein, low in fiber and vegetables or drinking milk too can cause children with tón apples, even if the mother has been apples for breastfeeding are also more prone to constipation. Use of milk also usually capable of constipation due to higher milk in addition to difficult to digest than breast milk.

Due to injury to the gastrointestinal entity

Although the phenomenon hurt gastrointestinal entity very rare, accounting for only about 5% of causes of constipation, but it also affects the young. In addition the birth defects as the colon being distended (Hipschsprung disease), hypothyroidism (Myxoedeme disease) will cause the child has constipation of very early, from shortly after birth.

When constipation, children often feel pain during bowel movements, anal cracked or spasms cause the children to shy away from in the subconscious, makes waste on hold longer than in the gut. Baby body will absorb water from the stool more solid stool and make bad constipation of the baby weighs more. It really is a vicious cycle.

The consequences of constipation in infants

Although no immediate danger but the constipation if not treated promptly can lead to more serious consequences like eating indigestion, vomiting reflux, anorexia, retardation, stunted, and malnutrition.

Fix constipation in babies

If mom mother breast-fed also constipation then the need to treat constipation for moms by: at this time, I need to drink more water about 2.5 to 3lít of water a day. In addition parents should eat more green vegetables and ripe fruits have properties that accept colon as above, can eat more yogurt daily.

If the child has weaned out need to select for the type of milk has added fiber.

The case with the child under age 1 you can impact outside the abdominal massage for children according to the frame of the colon from right to left on October 3-4 times the distance between the 2 packed to stimulate increased peristalsis. With older children, the active strengthening the abdominal wall and rounded anal muscles by running children Frolic, exercise, regular sports.

In addition, parents should also file for older bowel in time defined, select the time at which the child is not hurried, often should choose after meals because at this active peristalsis, increases should avoid getting older or potty seat pedestals ugly too long.=

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