Children with constipation should try to adjust their diet structure and diversify their diet, so that children can eat more foods rich in crude fiber such as fruits and vegetables.
Functional constipation is basically divided into the following reasons:
1. Intestinal flora imbalance: The nature of stool is closely related to the food composition that the baby ingests. For example, food contains a lot of protein, but the carbohydrate is insufficient, the intestinal flora is a secondary change, the fermentation process of intestinal contents is less, and the stool is easy to be alkaline and dry; For example, food contains more carbohydrates, intestinal fermentation bacteria increase, fermentation increases, acid production is more, stool is easy to be acidic, and the number of times is soft. This situation is mostly caused by parents not paying attention to their children's scientific diet, or children's picky eaters and anorexia.
2. Intestinal dysfunction: Irregular life, or parents failing to cultivate correct defecation habits for their baby, will lead to no conditioned reflex of defecation, which will lead to constipation of the baby. There are also some congenital intestinal diseases, such as Hirschsprung's disease, anal fissure and anal stenosis's disease, which can also lead to constipation. It is worth noting that when the baby's constipation symptoms are mild, long-term use of enema such as kaiselu, or because the teacher is not considerate at school, the baby will be constipated for a long time because of muscle weakness and intestinal wall dysfunction. In addition, sympathetic nerve dysfunction, weakness or paralysis of abdominal muscles often cause constipation in infants. [ 1]
3. Spleen and stomach weakness: This is the most common cause of baby constipation, mainly manifested as baby food accumulation, anorexia and getting angry. Usually parents will regard this constipation as getting angry and choose some food or medicine for their baby. However, the parents who remove the fire from the baby will find that there are only two results in removing the fire to treat constipation: one is that constipation remains the same, and the other is that constipation has been repeated for a while. This situation is because parents don't understand that getting angry is the cause of constipation, and getting angry is caused by the deficiency of spleen and stomach yin and qi. If the problem of spleen and stomach weakness is not solved, baby constipation will naturally recur.