Talk about something that sooner or later concerned your children. Yes, you guessed it - this is constipation in the baby. With an unpleasant problem that is rather painful for children, the baby in most cases behaves very restlessly - it’s understandable that the intestines are loaded and the tummy naturally hurts, most often the baby farts a lot and rarely cries. Even when sitting on a high chair. Let's remember ourselves when our adults have a stomach ache, but that's not so bad, we can drink some kind of “magic” pill and we are freed from these terrible spasms. The problem is that we cannot give the baby medicines, since they are contraindicated for him.

Constipation in the chest. Solution of the problem.

Quite often, babies develop constipation. Why this happens and what constipation is in general, I will tell you further. What is constipation in the chest? According to medical and pediatric concepts, constipation is a complete delay in children's stool from 2 to 2.5 days. The norm for the “most” small is somewhere around 0-3 months, they should walk “in a big way” about 2-4 times a day, and a one-year-old child about 1-2 times a day. Most often, constipation affects the tiniest children under half a year. And all due to the fact that the gastrointestinal tract has not yet been fully formed due to age.

The causes of constipation are influenced by many different facts and causes, for example:

• transfer from breastfeeding to regular "adult" food;
• the child is teething;
• some kind of illness

But in healthy children, constipation should pass quickly.

CONSTIPATION in newborns on "natural" mother's milk:

In such a situation, constipation may be associated with the child's diet, but since he eats mother's milk, these are already shortcomings in the menu of a nursing mother. You should review your diet and exclude those foods that lead to gas formation in the intestines of you, and therefore the child . When a child's diet is monogamous, that is, it consists of one product - as if it were breast milk or an adapted infant formula, most likely the baby does not have enough plant foods, namely fiber.

If your baby is older, then introducing the first vegetable or fruit food will help you to improve your baby's stool and cure constipation accordingly. In order to find out the real cause of constipation in a baby, you need to contact a pediatrician. We strongly recommend that you do not try to self-medicate, and trying to shove some kind of drug intended for an adult, you can just make it worse. Then it is necessary to treat not only constipation, but also poisoning. So without adventures, remember that your child's health is at stake.

How can you help your child with constipation?

First of all, treatment should be complex, since one thing will obviously not help. Choose from a few but simple ones. For example, a change in diet (the exclusion of foods that strengthen), taking laxative components. I gave a weak infusion of hay grass. And he helped me after a caesarean section, when I had similar problems. And you know it helped a lot. There are also several ways to help the baby locally, for example: What should you do when your bunny is suffering?

1. to massage the tummy with light stroking movements in the direction of the clock;
2. play with the baby, helping the baby to move more, this will help the baby to release gases;
3. also help the good old-fashioned laying out on the tummy, preferably more often.

gases

Constipation is mostly most often accompanied by hated gas, which, as you know, are accompanied by colic, which in turn causes pain that brings considerable pain to the baby. For the treatment of constipation, the same remedies that help you get rid of colic are often suitable. Suitable, for example, dill water or ready-made children's tea with fennel. If constipation continues for several days, then you should think about enemas for cleaning purposes. Now I will tell you how to properly make a cleansing enema and save your baby from the torment. For this you need: vegetable oil, water, baby enema and baby cream. To begin with, we sterilize the vegetable oil and at the same time heat the water. I advise you to read the article when conjunctivitis appears in a child.

It is IMPORTANT that the water does not exceed room temperature, as too warm water will simply be absorbed into the walls of the rectum and will not give any result. We take some water and mix it with oil in equal proportions, we collect our enema solution. Lubricate the tip of our enema with baby cream and insert it into the anus and slowly inject the contents. We are waiting for a couple of minutes about op ready!

I advise you to use this method of purification as a last resort and as rarely as possible, the same applies to the gas outlet tube. These seemingly insanely useful things can harm your baby, namely, their frequent use can be addictive. That is, after frequent enemas, it will simply be difficult for your miracle to go to the toilet on your own, well, with a vent tube and a thermometer “method,” the same story, the baby will not be able to get rid of the gas by himself, as it is said in a natural way. Therefore, I repeat all the radical methods last, our task is to help, not harm!

Well, that's all, now you know what parents should do if the baby has constipation. If you still have any additions - write them in the comments, and I will always answer you.