Constipation is a symptom that may be subject to any child from birth. The correction of certain patterns in your diet helps to clear the condition.
Constipation
1. What is Constipation?
Constipation is a change in the frequency and stool consistency, with slowing of intestinal transit, which manifests as a difficulty in spontaneous and regular evacuation of stool from the large intestine.
The stools are hard and difficult issue them, required for an infant or child a real effort to expel.
2. What complications can have?
Moreover, in addition to the discomfort associated with bowel movements, may give other problems, such as intestinal gas retention type and pains colic.
Sometimes the stools are composed of small compact balls and stones, as bother to go through the year, the child refuse to expel them.
As a result of this phenomenon tends to retain the small stool in the bowel for longer than usual. This facilitates the subsequent tightening, so establishing a dynamic that is difficult to break.
3. Why does constipation occur?
The cause of constipation is diverse and depends on several factors such as age, Type feeding and other determinants.
These causes of constipation include:
- Simple, as an inadequate supply of water. Sometimes moms give much milk instead of water to complete the baby’s fluid intake thinking, and rightly so, that they eat more, but should take into account that the contribution of water is essential for the child and get the proper concentration of nutrients in the body. This is solved with the greater intake of water, alone or with chamomile. In hard water areas will be convenient to use mineral water.
- Or as complex as disorders of bowel movements, intestinal peristalsis the call-by neurological problems, immaturity of the nerves and the intestinal plexus.
4. Treatment
Babies: The initial treatment is the administration of orange juice fasting. No matter the age, because the baby can tolerate it well.
Infants: You can try the mother to make fiber-rich foods, vegetables and fruits, as through breast milk can remove substances that can act as laxatives for the infant. A teaspoon of honey before feedings can work.
If the infant making porridge, slight changes can be made using milk with added soluble fiber (carob seed flour) and / or oat-based cereal in place of the cereals that normally take.
Although it has low gluten content, it is recommended that oats be used only after six months. If the patient suffer from constipation taking codeine products, it is advisable to suspend the medication.
Dietary measures such: Will be a priority in the management of constipation, both in infants and in older children. We talk about diets rich in fiber-vegetables, legumes, cereals, whole grains and fruits-astringent food restriction, a limitation on the amount of cow’s milk, all of which can give good results.
Pharmacotherapy: Apply if it does not respond to dietary measures. Hygroscopic substance called agar, plums, apple syrup or gentle laxatives may be administered under medical advice.
In cases of distress and avoidance of bowling called fecal- impact also can be used similar glycerin suppositories, enemas soapy solution that is sold in pharmacies.
If no solution is reached … If constipation is stubborn and rebellious after applying the above measures, it is advisable to consult formally with the pediatrician. Measures may be necessary psycho-pedagogical type to correct bowel habits and constipation investigate whether there could be some underlying problem. Any occasion is good to consult your doctor before using laxatives medications.
