What to do if your baby is constipated with complementary foods

The baby to add supplemental food constipation may be related to the supplemental food added irrationally, low water intake, gastrointestinal digestive burden, etc., can be dealt with by improving the diet, increase water intake, the appropriate use of medication and other ways.
1. Supplementary food add irrational: if the wrong way to the baby to add supplemental food, such as the beginning of the addition of a large number of supplemental food, and more types, then the baby’s gastrointestinal tract can not be digested and absorbed all of a sudden, constipation. You can properly add some apple puree, dragon fruit puree, vegetable puree and other dietary fiber-rich complementary foods in the diet to promote the discharge of stool.
2. Drinking less water: to the baby to add complementary foods if the water is too little or no water can also lead to constipation, so add complementary foods to the baby to drink water, to ensure that the stools are smooth.
3. Gastrointestinal digestive burden: generally in the baby after 6 months to add complementary foods, but at this time the development of the baby’s digestive system is not yet perfect, add complementary foods will increase the burden on the digestive tract, there may be temporary constipation. This situation can be based on medical advice to the baby to take bifidobacterium bifidum quadruple live bacterial powder and other probiotics, and appropriate massage of the gastrointestinal department.
Baby constipation should be timely intervention, while the use of drugs need to follow the doctor’s instructions, if there are abnormalities should be timely medical treatment, so as to avoid serious consequences.