Children’s constipation, pooping once every few days may be caused by improper diet, lack of exercise and congenital megacolon, etc., which can be treated by adjusting the diet, taking oral medication as prescribed by the doctor and surgery.
1. Improper diet: If children do not have enough water or have an unbalanced diet every day, it may lead to slowing down of intestinal peristalsis, thus resulting in constipation and pooping once every few days. At this time, you need to give children appropriate consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables, and at the same time appropriate supplementation of water, can play a role in relieving constipation.
2. Lack of exercise: If the children’s exercise is small, so that the power of gastrointestinal peristalsis is relatively poor, may also make the children appear constipated, a few days to poop the situation. Can increase the amount of exercise, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis to help defecation, if the symptoms are more serious can follow the doctor’s instructions oral lactulose and other laxatives, improve the symptoms of constipation.
3. Congenital megacolon: mainly due to heredity, neural crest cell migration disorders, etc., so that the distal end of the colon intestinal tubes continue to spasm, fecal stagnation in the proximal colon, thus appearing constipation, the phenomenon of a few days to poop. It can be treated with surgical methods, such as colostomy.
When children have constipation and poop once every few days, it is recommended that they go to a regular hospital for treatment. The above medicines should be used according to the doctor’s prescription.