What to do if your 1 year old baby’s stools are dry and dark?

Dry and dark stools in 1 year old babies are mostly caused by constipation or intestinal bleeding. If constipation, need to be treated through diet and exercise as well as medication. If the gastrointestinal bleeding need to be timely stool routine test, if necessary, do enteroscopy. Baby constipation due to improper diet, you need to adjust the baby’s behavior and eating habits, eat more food containing dietary fiber, such as sweet potatoes, bananas, celery, is conducive to laxative, every day to the baby’s clockwise belly rubbing, so that the baby more running and jumping, can relieve constipation. If diet and exercise can not be well relieved, should be given with probiotics conditioning commonly used such as bifidobacteria or with lactulose, but long-term constipation can not be relieved when the need to consult a doctor in a timely manner to find out the cause. If there is a congenital malformation, such as megacolon, surgery should be performed. Darkening may also have intestinal bleeding and should be treated with colonoscopy.