What to do if your toddler is often constipated

When young children are often constipated, adjust their diet to include more vegetables and fruits that contain dietary fiber, such as leeks and dragon fruit, bananas and groundnuts. Eat more foods with high pectin content, such as carrots and cabbage, and add the right amount of olive oil to the dishes you make for your child, both to supplement nutrition and to lubricate the intestines. The baby should not eat too fine food, but also drink more water, especially in the morning after waking up to drink a glass of warm water, to keep the intestinal tract clean and smooth, to strengthen the baby’s abdominal muscle activities, such as simple squatting, twisting the waist muscles, can also be given to the baby clockwise massage abdomen, help gastrointestinal digestion, facilitate defecation, adjust the diet invalid, can be oral treatment of pediatric constipation drugs such as lactulose. If the baby is very difficult to defecate, you can temporarily use the laxative, but not often, so as not to form a dependence, to train the baby to develop the habit of regular bowel movements. If your baby has severe constipation, especially long-term constipation after birth, you should pay attention to congenital megacolon, and should go to the hospital for further examination and treatment after a clear diagnosis.