Baby Constipation
Baby constipation symptoms
Your baby got constipation if she/he has the following symptoms.
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Your baby has fewer bowel movement
than usual,or even no bowel movement for 3-4 days.
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Even if there is bowel movement,
the dejecta is dry and hard,and of grain shape.
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Some babies even have crack and
blooding on anus.
Causes of baby constipation:
--Diet Factors:
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Eat too less,or didn't eat enough
sugar. These will lead less dregs after digesting and so less bowel movement.
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Improper infant milk powder
brewing
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No enough water intake
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Breeding changing from human milk
to cow's milk/infant powder
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Changing different brands infant
powder
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Begining to add subsidiary
foodstuffs
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Containing too high protein in diet,so
the dejecta becomes alkalescence and dryness, causing less bowel movement
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Containing too much Calcium diet,thus
cause constipation. There is more calcium in cow's milk than in human milk. So
cow's milk
feeding is easier to get constipation than human milk feeding.
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Baby losing too much water because
of activity increase or high temperature.
--Habit Factor:
--Disease Factor: Diseases such as
rickets,innutrition, hypothyroidis, anus crack, inflammation around
anus,Hirschsprung,etc.
Baby constipation cure,remedies
What to do for baby constipation?
Don't worry, if your infant got
constipation take the following treatments.
--Diet adjustion
Most baby constipation is caused by
diet. So Most infant constipation will be relieved after diet adjustion.
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Increase water intake. Ask baby to
drink some warm boiled water or glucose.
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For cow's milk breeding babies,
increase sugar to 8% in milk, and increase fruit juice.
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When baby can eat subsidiary
foodstuffs,reduce protein intake,increase fruits and vegetables containing
high dietary. Make mashed fruit,mashed vegetable,or cook solid food into
mushy stuff.
--Bowel movement habit training
3-month-old or above babies can be
trained to regular bowel movement. 1-year-old babies can be tained to squat
toilet at a fixed time. Ask babies to go bowel movement after meals.
--At last, the important is,see
a pediatric doctor if your infant have special diseases.
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