Five-month-old baby seven or eight days without poop may be due to too little water, constipation, gastrointestinal function is weak caused by the water, massage the abdomen, medication to improve the symptoms of inability to pass stool.
1. Drinking too little water: baby drinking too little water may cause dry and hard stools, defecation out of the situation, you can give the baby more warm boiled water to accelerate the body’s metabolism, lubricate the intestinal tract, promote the baby defecation.
2. constipation: if the baby no symptoms, you can first observe, at the same time, parents can rub the palm of the hand hot gently massage the baby’s abdomen, promote the baby’s intestinal peristalsis, in order to promote the discharge of stool. You can also take oral lactulose oral solution and other laxatives to promote defecation, if the baby has abdominal pain, abdominal distension symptoms, can be used under the guidance of the doctor to improve constipation.
3. weaker gastrointestinal function: baby gastrointestinal function is weak will also lead to gastrointestinal peristalsis, defecation out of the situation, according to the doctor’s advice to use probiotic drugs to regulate the baby’s intestinal flora, such as bacillus subtilis bacillus, etc., but also can be taken orally, such as domperidone syrup, etc., to promote the restoration of power in the gastrointestinal tract, to help the baby defecation.
The baby did not poop for seven or eight days, it is recommended that parents take the baby to the hospital, under the advice of the doctor for appropriate treatment. The above medicines should be used according to the doctor’s advice.