What to do if your baby doesn’t poop for a few days

Newborn babies usually have 2-5 bowel movements a day, and 1-2 bowel movements a day after 2-3 months, so normally babies should have at least 1 bowel movement a day. If the baby appeared defecation abnormalities, such as in the number of bowel movements to reduce the accompanied by difficulty in defecation, stool dryness, may be constipation for infants; such as only a reduction in the number of bowel movements, but the quality of the stool is normal, may be for the accumulation of belly, for the baby’s development in the process of the normal phenomenon, parents do not have to worry too much. First, the clinical manifestations and causes of baby constipation Baby constipation manifests itself in abnormal defecation, that is, the number of defecation is reduced, defecation difficulties, dirty stool, dry stool, defecation time interval is longer (more than 2 days), irregular. There is also bloating and abdominal pain, which can be relieved by defecation or passing gas. The causes may be too little food intake, fire, and failure to develop the habit of regular bowel movements. In addition, organic factors, such as congenital megacolon and megacolon analogous margin disease, anal stenosis and other diseases, can also cause baby constipation. Second, the baby constipation how to do The baby constipation relief methods are as follows: 1, primary treatment: active treatment of congenital megacolon and megacolon analogous edge disease, anal stenosis and other diseases; 2, family care: improve the dietary structure, more supplemental water and fiber-containing food, pay attention to the diet of light, easy to digest, and at the same time, to develop a good habit of defecation; 3, the treatment of enemas: severe constipation can be given to the first saline, 3, enema treatment: severe constipation can be given saline, paraffin oil, magnesium sulfate mixed in the ratio of 3:2:1 retained enema; 4, drug therapy: laxatives can be used to maintain regular defecation, common osmotic laxatives (lactulose), gastric lavage (polyethylene glycol) and so on.