Constipation in Infant and Baby
What is Constipation in Infant and Baby?
Fully breast-feeding baby have more time stools daily than milk feeding, the stool frequency of less once a day or 2 to 3 time. If less stool frequency, but its nature is good and children do not have any other discomfort, it can not be considered to be pathological. If the stool dry, less quantity and Dyschezia, although the day may have 2 or 3 times, but the total amount is less than usual one time, can be considered as constipation.
What are causes of constipation in Infant and Baby?
Children in different age groups have different constipation causes.
1. The vast majority of children born within 24 ~ 36 hours that should be discharged meconium, in the absence of meconium discharge, they should check for intestinal obstruction, including anal atresia and stenosis.
2. When the children have no enough food, can occur constipation, if at the same time there is no increase in body weight, and often hungry and crying, in the supplementary food, the stool can be normal.
3. In children due to drinking too little, especially in the summer, sweating, and intestinal water absorption, which can also be too dry stool constipation. With the increasing age of children, if defecation usually without the training and the establishment of regular bowel habits, constipation can also be an important factor.
4. If the usually irregular bowel habits, although the feeling of defecation, but because of too much fun or because of other things, and consciously intended to curb it, a long time, and allows enteral defecation reflex sensitivity decreased stool accumulation in the intestines, so that more water is absorbed, stool becomes drier and more difficult to make from stool.
5. Children too fine food, the lack of cellulose, not enough to stimulate the intestinal wall, constipation can also be formed.
Which hazards of constipation in Infant and Baby are there?
Not only for children with constipation rectum, anus caused by anal fissure, hemorrhoids, Rectocele, such as local damage, but often have a whole range of adverse effects on the body. Mainly hazards of constipation include the following.
1. constipation can affect the physical development of children. As a result of metabolic waste can not be promptly eliminated from the body, easily lead to Abdominal pain, bloating, loss of appetite. Malnutrition in children will enable long-term anorexia, growth retardation.
2. constipation can cause a variety of diseases. A large number of long accumulation of feces in the intestine, and its many toxins can be absorbed through the intestinal wall into the blood vessel and then the cycle, resulting in decreased immune function, and thus prone to acute tonsillitis, bronchitis, etc. respiratory infections.
3. constipation can affect mental development in children. Constipation, many toxic substances absorbed through the intestinal wall into the blood to reach the brain tissue, can stimulate the brain to receive and concurrent weakening impulse, not only affects children's memory, and the impact of logical thinking and creativity.
5. lead to constipation, enuresis children. As a result of long-term expansion of the ongoing oppression of the rectal bladder, resulting in reduced bladder capacity and bladder due to repeated stimulation, can cause contraction of the bladder can not control, you can have enuresis.
5. facial hinder constipation. Long-term constipation, stool in the role of the toxin in the body, can affect the facial skin metabolism, resulting in children with dark complexion, rough skin and easy to boil a long boil.
How is diagnosis and tests for constipation in Infant and Baby?
Whether the constipation in children, depending on the quality and quantity of stool, as well as any adverse effects on health, rather than to determine the frequency of stool. The number of children with normal bowel movements per day varies greatly. Fully breast-feeding baby food daily number of stools may be more; with milk and other milk substitutes, the stool frequency of less once a day or 2 to 3 time. Such as stool frequency of less, but its nature and in both normal and children do not have any other discomfort, it can not be considered to be pathological. If the stool dry and hard to emit less, although the day may have 2 or 3 times, but the total amount of time than usual even less, can be considered as constipation. At the same time, especially to reduce loss of appetite, abdominal swelling, they intended to frequent, the performance is even more constipation. If the children than the law of normal bowel habits, and more than two days puzzled by a sudden bowel movement, especially with abdominal pain, abdominal distention or vomiting, more attention should be paid to finding the causes of their constipation.
How is treatment for constipation in Infant and Baby?
1. diet adjustment. Constipation most of the children belonging to the first case, adjusting the diet to ease constipation after the majority. Constipation of infants fed milk, the milk can be increased to 8% of the amount of sugar and increase fruit, honey can be added more babies. Children with constipation should be reduced protein diet, an increase of cereal food, a long increase in vegetables, fruits and other food containing slag.
2, to develop regular bowel habits. The baby for more than three months can be trained on the bowel from time to time, children can eat in the morning or after sitting at urinals, and should develop a daily habit of regular defecation.
3, the appropriate use of enema. Do not often served laxative, digestive function because of imperfect children, and may lead to diarrhea after laxative.