Is it constipation if your baby only has a bowel movement once every few days? Or is it a belly? Parents will certainly have such concerns, so today we come together to discuss the difference between the belly and constipation, and how to deal with. We often say save belly is not a disease, but a physiological phenomenon, is a baby intestinal development of a performance, often occurring in breastfeeding babies. When the child before and after the full moon to two months of a period of time, due to the baby’s digestive ability to improve, can be fully digested and absorbed breast milk. The food residue produced every day is very little, not enough to stimulate the rectum to form a bowel movement, ultimately leading to 2 to 3 days or 4 to 5 days once the stool, this phenomenon we call save belly. It is characterized by prolonged intervals between the baby’s bowel movements, but the bowel movement is smooth, not accompanied by the phenomenon of dry stools, because this is a physiological phenomenon of the baby’s growth process, so for the belly, parents do not have to do special intervention and treatment. Although constipation is also manifested as the prolongation of the interval between defecation, but in addition to the prolongation of defecation time, accompanied by hard stools, dry, difficult to discharge and other manifestations. Sometimes hard feces abrasion of the intestinal mucosa will also have blood or mucus outside the feces, large and hard fecal matter will also cause anal fissure, anal pain, so that the child’s appetite, abdominal distension, the left lower abdomen can be touched with fecal matter, which is very different and save the belly is very different. So what causes constipation in children? How to relieve it? Some parents may think that the baby appeared hard stool, dry, difficult to discharge the phenomenon is due to intestinal dehydration, then let the baby drink a little more water so that the phenomenon is not relieved? Then this method is actually feasible? In fact, the baby constipation, parents let the baby drink more water is not useful, because the water from the mouth to drink in the feces will not be discharged. Because the vast majority of the water through the mouth into the small intestine section that is absorbed, so drink more water is to relieve constipation phenomenon is not obvious help, but let the baby drink some plain water, its health is still favorable. So where does the water in feces mainly come from? The water in feces mainly comes from the root vegetables we eat, because they contain a lot of cellulose, cellulose through the intestinal bacteria will produce short-chain fatty acids and water, this part of the water is the main source of water in feces. Therefore, if you want to prevent the baby constipation, then we should do a reasonable dietary arrangements, usually more for the baby to prepare some fiber-rich vegetables to eat. Similarly, if the baby has constipation, then the fundamental relief method is to increase the intake of fiber. If the baby for a long time constipation or even accompanied by fissures caused by dry stools, the urgent need to relieve the phenomenon of dry stools, then parents can prepare for the baby lactulose (cellulose preparations) to take, but after all, it belongs to the preparation, which contains preservatives and additives and other ingredients, the baby too much intake of health is not good. Therefore, effective prevention and relief of constipation should still be based on a reasonable dietary arrangements.