What if the kid ate a penny and hasn’t pooped in two days?

Children who do not have a bowel movement after eating a coin can have a manipulative massage, eat rough fiber foods or go to the hospital. Usually after a child swallows a coin, it can be discharged within 2 to 3 days, the longest will not exceed 5 days. Coin belongs to the hard indigestible foreign body, if after swallowing the coin 2 days without defecation, you can appropriate abdominal manipulation massage, can also be supplemented by eating spinach, celery and other fiber-rich vegetables or fresh fruits, to promote intestinal peristalsis, try to the coin from the digestive tract discharged. However, if abdominal pain or bloating occurs, it is important to go to the hospital in a timely manner. Hard and indigestible coins into the gastrointestinal tract is likely to cause intestinal obstruction, abdominal pain and bloating suggests that there may be damage in the gastrointestinal tract, this time to go to the hospital in a timely manner. If a child swallows a coin and the symptoms of no bowel movement are not relieved, or accompanied by other symptoms, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner, to do imaging tests to determine the location of the coin, to determine whether or not an intestinal obstruction has occurred, and under the guidance of the doctor to carry out treatment.