If your child has a decrease in the number of bowel movements and has difficulty in passing dry, hard stools, it means that your child is constipated. This short article may help you on how to help your child relieve the pain of constipation in a timely and effective manner. As parents, we must first determine whether your child’s constipation is functional or organic. If it is functional constipation, you can give your child a lactulose oral solution, usually taken once at breakfast, and choose the measurement of the medication according to the child’s age. There is also a kind of corkage we commonly use, the cap of the container is removed and coated with a small amount of grease, then slowly inserted into the anus, squeeze the liquid into the rectum and then properly pinch the baby’s little buttocks for a few minutes to prevent the corkage from flowing out quickly, which can generally achieve immediate laxative effect. For children whose constipation is not well treated by the above methods, they can also take oral polyethylene glycol electrolyte dispersion, which is also effective in treating constipation. If the child has constipation caused by organic diseases, we should first actively treat the primary disease. In the absence of improvement of the primary disease, the treatment of functional constipation should be followed. In order to prevent constipation, children must eat more vegetables and fruits, less greasy food, reasonable diet structure, more exercise, more clockwise massage of the abdomen, so as to avoid the occurrence of constipation, for children with gastrointestinal disorders, usually take some probiotics, for the prevention and treatment of constipation is also a good effect.