Milk powder is only food for infants and young children, and cannot be used to treat constipation and other diseases. Constipation in infants and young children is categorized into organic constipation and functional constipation.
1. Organic constipation: refers to infants and young children due to systemic diseases or intestinal diseases caused by the difficulty of defecation, its incidence is not high, can be caused by congenital megacolon, congenital hypothyroidism and intestinal nerve dysplasia and other diseases. In this case, the cause of the disease should be clarified under the guidance of the doctor, and the choice of milk powder should be adjusted according to different diseases and different stages of treatment, so please follow the doctor’s instructions.
2. Functional constipation: after eliminating organic constipation, it is common for infants and young children to have defecation dysfunction, which is manifested by a decrease in the frequency of defecation or dry and hard feces. At this time, according to the age of infants and young children to choose formula, containing palm oil, lactose more milk powder do not choose, easy to aggravate constipation. The milk powder feeding should pay attention to a small amount of times, between meals more hydration.
If the symptoms of constipation in infants and young children are not relieved or accompanied by other symptoms, they should go to the hospital in a timely manner, to identify the causes and then give targeted treatment.