Constipation is one of the common diseases of babies, and every time you see your baby’s red face, every mother’s heart is sad. So parents should know how to prevent constipation in babies. Let’s take a look at the methods to prevent constipation in babies.
Causes of constipation in babies
1.Insufficient diet
Babies eat too little, after digestion, liquid absorption residue less, resulting in less stool, thickening. When the amount of sugar in the milk is not enough intestinal peristalsis is weak, can make the stool dry. Insufficient diet for a longer period of time caused by malnutrition, abdominal muscle and intestinal muscle tone is reduced, or even atrophy, contraction force is weakened, forming a vicious circle, aggravating constipation.
2, improper food composition
The stool and food components are closely and intimately related. If the food contains a lot of protein, and not enough carbohydrate, intestinal flora secondary changes, intestinal content fermentation process less, stool easy to alkaline, dry; such as food containing more carbohydrate, intestinal fermentation bacteria, fermentation increased, acid production, stool easy to acid, more often and soft; such as eating fat and carbohydrate are high, the stool is moistened. If you eat a lot of calcified casein, feces contains more than the amount of dissolved calcium soap, feces, and easy to constipation. The carbohydrates in the rice flour, flour-based foods than cereals easy to constipation. Children’s partial diet, many children like to eat meat, eat less or do not eat vegetables, too little fiber in the food, also prone to constipation.
3, excessive water loss
A lot of sweating, vomiting, diarrhea, blood loss and fever can make water loss, compensatory caused by dry stools.
4.Drug influence
Taking calcium carbonate, aluminum hydroxide, atropine, prilupensin, morphine, phenelzine, bismuth carbonate and lead, arsenic, mercury, phosphorus and other metal poisoning can cause constipation. Long-term abuse of laxatives, so that the intestinal wall nerve sensory cell stress reduction, even if there is a sufficient amount of feces in the intestine, but also can not produce normal peristalsis and defecation reflex, thus leading to stubborn constipation.
Prevention of baby constipation must do 5 points
1, bowel movements regularly
After the baby is one year old, they can cultivate planting to enhance their defecation habits. For example, every morning or half an hour after meals, encourage babies to squat on the toilet for at least ten minutes, so they have enough time to defecate. At the same time, because some babies may not be able to defecate smoothly due to time or environmental changes, so you should fix your baby to defecate at home at a certain time as much as possible.
2. Smart fiber supplement
If your child hates eating vegetables and fruits, you can let him or her eat more fungus, apricot mushrooms, seaweed, seaweed, dried fruit and other foods to increase his or her fiber intake and thus promote his or her bowel movement.
3, more intake of fruits and vegetables
According to Chinese medicine, the reason for children’s constipation is their dry and hot constitution. Therefore, constipated children can eat more melon fruits, such as watermelon, melon, cantaloupe, etc., in order 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 fragrant sweet milk taste over the melon taste. 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, to take certain measures to ensure that the baby activity
Because of the lack of exercise in life is sometimes easy to lead to bowel movements. Therefore, parents must take measures to ensure that the baby has a certain amount of daily activity. For small babies who cannot walk or crawl independently yet, mom and dad should hug more, do simple exercises for the baby, or rub his tummy properly, instead of leaving the baby alone in the crib for a long time.
5.Improve the problem of partial food
If your baby doesn’t like fruits and vegetables, your mother can cut the food into various shapes to attract your baby and increase your appetite. If your baby still refuses to eat, you can also make juice from fruits and vegetables, but remember to mix them with vegetable scraps for your baby to drink, so that you can get the fiber. And pineapple, bananas or pears and other fruits with a better taste, will let the baby casual sloppy acceptance.