Many children experience constipation, but most constipation is transient. For children who are not constipated, eating fruits or more vegetables may help relieve constipation. For those who are more constipated, you can consider using a corked solution to temporarily pass the stool, and then the constipation may also be relieved. The constipation in these children is transient and does not last long, so clinically it is not considered constipation in the true sense of the word, but at best a transient dry stool.
However, in some children, constipation is not like this. Their constipation can be as short as a month or as long as several years, with dry stools like goat poop, very difficult to pass, often with anal fissures and even bleeding. Children because of the difficulty of defecation, and fear of defecation, and finally evolved into afraid to defecate, over time, the stool more and more dry, stool bars thick as adults, serious often block the toilet. The child’s bowel interval is also getting longer and longer, starting once a day, and then three or four days once, and then more up to seven days, ten days. Such serious constipation, the treatment can be very troublesome.
When the child’s constipation has developed to such a serious degree, parents realize the need for treatment. The lack of attention and information about constipation in children throughout society has led to misconceptions among parents about many issues, including access to medical care. Let’s take a look at some of the cases below.
Case 1
Wang Moumou, female, 4 years old, with constipation for nearly six months. There seems to be no obvious cause for this child’s constipation. Initially, the stool was only slightly dry, so the parents thought that the child was on fire and gave her more water, but it seemed to have no effect, and the stool became drier and drier. Parents heard that dragon fruit, bananas, etc. can laxative, so they often let the child eat fruit, in a period of time, this method is really effective, eat fruit, stool is still considered smooth, eat on the stool, do not eat on the inconvenience. Later, the child constipation and gradually heavy up, dry stool can not pull out, parents had to take the child to the hospital to see, the doctor prescribed the child lactulose, and instructed the child to eat more coarse fiber vegetables, the child usually even rice to adults to coax feeding, let alone vegetables, simply do not eat. At first, the lactulose seemed to have some effect, but then the stools became bad again. In the past month, the child had extreme difficulty in defecating, so the parents used soap to stimulate the anus, and later they used a corked laxative to pass the stool. Until now, the bowel movement has always depended on the cork, and without it, there is no way to pass stool.
Analysis: This child’s constipation is not too heavy at first and should be treated as early as possible. There are many varieties of herbal medicines with laxative effect, and constipation can be treated at an early stage when the symptoms are mild, the effect is still quite good. But if it is delayed until later, when constipation is so heavy and defecation is so difficult, and then you want to treat it, its efficacy will become poorer and its treatment time will definitely be lengthened.
In addition, it is important to be aware of the dietary situation of constipated children. First of all, on the issue of laxative, there is no substitutability between fruits and vegetables, the main laxative ingredient in vegetables is crude fiber, therefore, fruits cannot replace vegetables. In addition, the child’s diet must be regular. The fact that such an old child has to be fed to eat indicates that there must be problems with the child’s digestive function. If the child can not eat independently, quietly and regularly, it is likely to cause a burden on the intestines and stomach, which may aggravate constipation. Therefore, it is recommended that parents must manage the diet of their constipated children.
Case 2
Kiki, female, 3 years old. Since birth, the child has had frequent diarrhea, which was only cured after seeing many doctors. However, in the past six months, the child started to have constipation again. Initially, the constipation seemed to be related to the cold, and it might also be related to taking cold medicine or antibiotics, but the parents did not understand what factors the constipation was related to. In the past six months, the stool became very dry, coarse and large, and it was extremely difficult to defecate, the volume of each defecation was very small, the color was brown or black, and basically there was no yellow stool, and there were often anal fissures and blood in the stool. Because of the painful defecation, the child began to fear defecation, crying and fussing before each defecation, even if he had the intention to defecate, he refused to do so. I had no choice but to use a corking solution. Once the cork plug really worked, the stool came down very smoothly. However, from then on, the child would not have a bowel movement without using the cork. Even when using the cork, it seems that the amount of stool is not as much as it was at the beginning. The most annoying thing is that the child is also afraid of the open plug, and every time she sees her parents taking the open plug, she cries like crazy and refuses to use it. The family for the child’s constipation, it is simply a broken brain.
Analysis: It’s really not uncommon to see children like this, with thin stools when they are small, and dry stools when they get older. Such a child, the intestinal tract is definitely a problem.
Look at this child’s constipation, the stool volume is small, the color is dark, indicating that each time the discharge is persistent stool. That is to say, the intestines are always accumulating the stool, and if these stools are not excreted in time, the toxins will be absorbed in the intestines, and the water in the stool will be absorbed continuously, and the stool will become drier and drier. The accumulation of a large amount of hangover in the intestines places a great burden on the intestines. As the stool accumulates in the intestines and is not expelled, the food inside the stomach cannot go down, which tends to affect the child’s appetite. In addition, too much stool accumulates and the stool sticks become dry and coarse, exceeding the excretory limit of the intestines, so the intestines are unable to push the stool, so it is difficult to pass the stool.
Children can not defecate on their own, then the only way is to use external forces to stimulate the intestinal tract to help defecation, such as the use of soap head, or drugs, or open plug, etc..
Is the use of corkage a good solution to constipation?
From the perspective of temporarily relieving your child’s bowel movement difficulties, corkage is really an effective medicine that can save dry stools for a while, and the effect is quite good. But there is a problem with using it for a long period of time, because the child is completely relying on the cork plug to stimulate the rectum and defecate, this kind of defecation is no longer painful for the child, defecation has become a very easy thing, no need to exert themselves. In the long run, children will gradually lose the awareness and ability to defecate on their own. In addition, with the long-term use of the open plug, the sensitivity of the intestinal tract to stimulation will also decrease, and later, the effect of the open plug will gradually become less effective, which will eventually induce more serious constipation. We can also see from the above case that the amount of bowel movement will slowly decrease after a long time of using the open plug, which is an example.
Warm tips.
1, children’s diet must be regular and well-structured.
2, fruit can not replace vegetables.
3, constipation should be treated as early as possible.
4.For the treatment of severe constipation, it is necessary to discharge the stool first, and then, regulate the intestine and stomach.
5.Therapy with Chinese medicine is recommended.