Symptoms and treatment of intestinal obstruction in children

The symptoms of intestinal obstruction in children are abdominal pain, vomiting, abdominal distension, and cessation of defecation and gas evacuation, and the treatment is mainly surgical. 1. Abdominal pain: Elderly children will feel abdominal pain with relatively uncertain location, while infants will show crying and restlessness with painful expression. 2. Vomiting: high obstruction vomiting appears earlier, the vomit is gastric and duodenal contents, low obstruction vomiting appears later, at first it is gastric contents, then fecal matter. 3. Abdominal distension: high obstruction is not obvious, while low obstruction is often characterized by full abdominal distension. 4. Cessation of defecation and evacuation: complete intestinal obstruction is characterized by cessation of defecation and evacuation. 5. Others: if the intestinal obstruction is long, there is a possibility of perforation of the digestive tract, at this time there can be pressure pain, rebound pain, muscle tension and other signs of peritoneal irritation. The treatment of intestinal obstruction is based on surgical treatment to relieve the obstruction, and the surgical methods include intestinal adhesion release, intestinal resection anastomosis, intestinal short-circuit anastomosis, etc., which need to be combined with the cause of the disease and the baby’s condition by the surgeon to choose. If there is a child with intestinal obstruction, it is recommended to consult a doctor in time and treat it actively to avoid more serious complications.