As a result of a particular food, whether in the form of breast feeding, artificial or mixed, newborn or baby can suffer from constipation.

Baby Constipation

1. Breastfeeding

The feces of infants vary completely from one another in form, color, consistency and frequency. The breast-fed tend to have loose stools and frequent in the first weeks of life. Subsequently, their emissions can be spaced several days elapse between them. It is normal to do so. It is not constipation and should not be given laxatives.

Its cause is that the digestive process of breast milk leaves very little residue, requiring several days to accumulate enough for disposal stool, stools, on the other hand, remain soft. The lactose is digested in small quantities, reaches the end of digestion without having undergone any alterations, making the stools more fluid because they retain water.

2. Bottle feeding

The bottle-fed baby stool usually has more consistent. In the first weeks, the standard is to evacuate from 4-6 times a day. Within a few months the stools tend to be reduced to 1 or 2 a day.

With this kind of diet is more frequent constipation and stool consistency can be achieved. They may even occasionally because fresh bleeding whose origin is in fissures of the anal canal, which becomes visible on the surface of the deposition. It does not matter if his appearance is small and occasional.

3. Varied diet

When children start walking, constipation can be caused by incorrect diet that leaves little waste, as excess milk, yogurt, cookies and / or rejection of vegetables and fruits.

This is may reflect a voluntary refusal to make the deposition because the child refuses to sit on the potty.