What are the causes of constipation in children? For children, most of them have functional constipation. First of all, from the perspective of children who eat milk, generally children who eat mother’s milk are less constipated, while children who eat milk are prone to constipation. This means that constipation is called “food stagnation and internal heat” in Chinese medicine, and children with food stagnation and internal heat will become constipated. They are characterized by having stools once every few days and a thick tongue coating, and such children are upset and cry and have trouble sleeping at night. This is the case for children who eat milk and are prone to constipation. Older children start eating around 1 year old. I found that the incidence of constipation is very high in children between the ages of 1 and 5 years old, so why is it more likely to happen at this time? This is mainly in the 1 year old to 5 years old children to transition from eating milk to eating food, food contains fiber to promote defecation, some children greedy milk always want to eat milk, milk to eat more easily cause constipation. Some children love milk, love to eat, love to eat meat, do not love to eat vegetables, do not love to eat vegetables children easily cause constipation. Chinese medicine says that if you don’t like to eat vegetables, you will easily get on fire, and if you get on fire, you will be constipated. The older children also have constipation, of course, adults, adults, the elderly also have. Older children also have a habit of eating more meat and less vegetables, and these children are prone to constipation. There are also some stubborn constipation, often once every 5 or 6 days, this is called habitual constipation. So children of all ages have symptoms of constipation. Is it necessary to use medicine to treat constipation in children? Nowadays, the treatment for constipation in children is usually medication plus basic therapy, many parents are worried about their children’s problems, at this time we will use a milder drug called lactulose, basic therapy includes three kinds, the first is a reasonable diet with a sufficient amount of water, for infants and young children constipation is the best way to regulate the diet, such as infants in addition to drinking milk can also add juice, tomato juice, and so on. Children should mainly eat more supplementary food, coarse grains, eat more vegetables, the second is the child defecation habit training, many times it is because the child did not develop such habits from childhood, which led to the occurrence of constipation, the third is to increase the amount of activity, to ensure that the child has an hour of activity, if the child is small there is no way, the parents can press the child’s abdomen, massage, which is also effective. Of course, some parents will also seek Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine is mainly through the elimination of food and stagnation, Tongli attack therapy, to regulate the gastrointestinal function has the effect of curing the root. How to identify whether a child is constipated? First of all, we have to understand that for infants and young children, they should have to have stool every day. The stool of mother’s milk is better, it can be 2 or 3 times a day, the number of times may be more than adults, mainly depending on the nature of the stool, if the digestion is very good and delicate, between the lumps are normal. However, sometimes the stool may be a bit dry, for infants, the real formed stool is still relatively small, usually soft stool, are thin paste. This is normal, the normal is to poop every day, if the child does not poop for three days is certainly constipation. Sometimes every other day a stool, once in a while is okay, if always every other day a stool is also considered constipation, no stool for 3 days must be treated by a doctor. If there is no stool for 5 or 6 days is not normal, the stool is not excreted, there are a lot of toxins in it, for the child’s appetite and so on are affected, constipation should be solved in a timely manner. What are the dangers of pediatric constipation? The hazards of constipation have several aspects: First, the stool is not solved for a long time, it is easy to cause abdominal distension and abdominal pain, and even affect the appetite of children, kidney development will also be affected, resulting in stunted development of children. Second, the stool is too dry is very easy to appear anal fissures, the situation of blood in the stool, so that children produce psychological barriers, and over time will also appear hemorrhoids, of course, this case is relatively rare.