Prevention
1, the preparation of meals to be less, to develop a good habit of children must eat every meal finished
Children’s stomach capacity is small, rough, large or excessive food, are easy to make the child’s intestines and stomach blockage, causing indigestion. Therefore, when children eat, parents should prepare a small meal for children, usually about a third or a quarter of the amount of adults. In this way, the child will not have the feeling of never being able to finish eating, and will have a sense of accomplishment after eating.
2. Eat less and more meals and choose quality snacks carefully
Although children’s stomach capacity is small and they can not eat too much food each time, but their high energy and activity, almost every 3 to 4 hours, they need to supplement their diet. Therefore, the child’s diet should adhere to a small number of meals. Parents can divide their children’s daily nutritional needs into three main meals and two side meals to supply.
As for the side meals, you can choose some foods rich in nutrients, such as white fungus, almonds, honey and so on. These foods not only contain high quality protein and lipids, but also have the effect of softening and laxing the bowels, which is the best source of vitality for children. Parents can boil and chop white fungus to make a sweet soup for children to eat; can also grind almonds with some oats, raisins, water for children to drink; or honey poured on fruit or cake for children to eat.
3, clever supplement fiber
If children usually hate eating vegetables and fruits, they can eat more fungus, apricot mushrooms, seaweed, seaweed, dried fruit and other foods to increase their fiber intake, thus promoting their bowel movements.
According to Chinese medicine, the cause of children’s constipation is their dry and hot constitution. Therefore, children with constipation can usually eat more melon fruits, such as watermelon, melon, cantaloupe, etc., to eliminate the dry heat in their bodies.
If the child does not like the taste of such fruits, you can sprinkle some condensed milk, yogurt or ice cream on the fruit, so that the flavor of sweet milk over the melon flavor.
In addition, parents should often boil some mung bean and barley porridge for their children to eat, can also play a role in relieving heat and laxative.
4, appropriate exercise
Usually, parents should encourage their children to participate in sports. Because exercise can increase intestinal peristalsis, to promote bowel movements. Parents can also be in the child before going to bed, the belly button as the center of its clockwise gently massage its abdomen, which can not only promote the child’s intestinal peristalsis, but also help it sleep. In addition, an hour after the child eats, gently press the following two points, can also promote their bowel movements.
Foot San Li point: This point is located 3 inches from the lower edge of the patella and 1 inch from the lateral tibia. You can press continuously for 1 to 2 minutes.
Chi Gou point: This point is located 3 inches above the transverse stripe on the back of the wrist, between the ulna and the radius. Can be pressed continuously for 1 to 2 minutes.
5.Create good bowel habits
Not defecating on time is one of the causes of constipation in many children. 3-7 years old children, their abdominal and pelvic muscles are in the developmental stage, the function of the defecation reflex is not yet mature. They do not yet know that they should go to the bathroom when they have the urge to defecate, and often need to be reminded by their parents.
Therefore, parents can make one hour after breakfast a regular defecation time for their children. At first, parents can accompany their children to defecate for about 10 minutes each time, and gradually help children to develop the habit of going to the toilet regularly. Before going to the toilet, you can give your child a glass of juice or warm honey water to moisten his intestines.
6, pay attention to the child’s oral hygiene
Children’s oral hygiene is something that many parents tend to ignore. Children with bad teeth will become picky eaters, loss of appetite, indigestion. This will naturally affect bowel movements. Therefore, parents usually pay attention to let children brush their teeth properly after meals, but also regularly (every three months) to take it to the dentist’s office for a checkup.
If your child is often constipated and does not improve even after taking the above measures, or has symptoms such as severe abdominal pain, vomiting, or obvious symptoms of dehydration such as mental laziness and reduced urine output, you must send your child to the hospital as soon as possible so that the right medicine can be prescribed and your child can be relieved of the pain of the disease in time.
How to adjust
Diet regulation
To treat constipation in children, the main thing is to regulate the main care. Try to adjust the diet structure, diversify the diet, and let children eat more fruits, vegetables and other foods rich in coarse fiber. Finally, pay attention to hydration, drink a glass of honey water or cold boiled water every morning after waking up and half an hour before each meal on an empty stomach, which can play a role in laxative effect. For children who still have constipation after care, they can take appropriate medication.
According to experts, children’s constipation is mainly due to deficiency, treatment can take some laxative drugs, such as hemp intestinal pill. When children have dry and hard stools stuck to the rectum, you can use the method of enema infusion of some clear intestinal lotion, corkage and other temporary solutions.
Lifestyle conditioning
If children are found to be chronically constipated, then the real cause should be identified. At this time, the treatment of constipation in children should also pay attention to improving the diet is a priority. Control the consumption of cereals, cakes, cookies and other commercially available foods for children; induce them to drink more water; carrots, green vegetables, bamboo shoots, potatoes, corn, goodies and other fiber foods should be their common table fare.
In addition, it is also important to change the lifestyle habits. Cultivate the good habit of going to bed early and waking up early and defecating in the morning, after persisting for a period of time, constipation will be improved or cured. If the constipation is particularly serious, you can use laxatives under the guidance of a doctor, but do not use more laxatives for a long time, otherwise, constipation is not removed, adding new problems.