21/09/2022
[ LEVELS OF CONCLUSION IN CHILDREN AND SOLUTIONS ]
I. Acute Constipation
Defined as a condition of constipation that usually occurs within a short period of time (1 month) and can be easily remedied by conventional therapies through changes in daily living habits.
In acute constipation, people are divided into two different degrees:
1. Constipation level 1 (Constipation in children with mild degree)
Signal:
+ Babies only have a bowel movement every 3-4 days.
+ Hard stools in chains.
Baby has to push a lot when having a bowel movement.
Solution: When children have level 1 constipation, parents should not be too worried because this condition can be improved through changing the child's diet and activities.
+ Add more fiber to the child's daily diet: let the child eat more green vegetables such as spinach, amaranth ... or ripe fruits such as papaya, plum, orange, tangerine, ...
Give your baby enough water to drink during the day.
+ Probiotic supplement helps to balance the baby's intestinal microbial system.
+ Regularly let your baby exercise, participate in physical activities and sports to make the baby's digestive system work better.
2. Constipation level 2 (Constipation in children with moderate degree)
Signal:
+ Babies only have a bowel movement every 4-6 days.
+ Hard, small and fragmented stools like goat manure.
+ Sometimes the baby pushes red but still can't have a bowel movement
Solution: When children have level 1 constipation, parents should not be too worried because this condition can be improved through changing the child's diet and activities.
+ Add more fiber to the child's daily diet: let the child eat more green vegetables such as spinach, amaranth ... or ripe fruits such as papaya, plum, orange, tangerine, ...
Give your baby enough water to drink during the day.
+ Probiotic supplement helps to balance the baby's intestinal microbial system.
+ Regularly let your baby exercise, participate in physical activities and sports to make the baby's digestive system work better.
2. Constipation level 2 (Constipation in children with moderate degree)
Signal:
+ Babies only have a bowel movement every 4-6 days.
+ Hard, small and fragmented stools like goat manure.
+ Sometimes the baby pushes red but still can't have a bowel movement
Solution: At this stage, the cause of constipation in children is mainly due to dehydration of the child's stool because of a deficiency in the component that helps retain water in the stool (fiber) or because the baby is having a problem. Heat causes the body to lose water easily.
=> See also: Heat causes constipation in children.
Therefore, in addition to changing the child's diet and activities, parents also need to find solutions to make it easier for the baby to have a bowel movement through softening the stool in the child. Specifically:
Add enough water and fiber in your child's diet.
+ Encourage your baby to be active at different times of the day.
+ Practice for children the habit of going to the toilet every day at a fixed time.
+ At the time after eating about 30-60 minutes, the mother can rub the baby's belly clockwise 3-4 times to help the baby's digestive system work better.
+ Mother can cook water with some herbs to help clear heat and detoxify such as Hoa Hoe, Licorice (uses to remove heat in children and soften stools) for babies to use instead of daily drinking water. .
II. Chronic Constipation
When acute constipation is not treated in time, after a while, it will turn to the chronic stage. At this level, the baby often encounters some dangerous complications that the mother should pay attention to so that she can find timely solutions. Avoid causing serious consequences to the health and psychophysiology of the baby such as hemorrhoids, intestinal obstruction, a**l - re**al cancer, ...
Signal:
Baby has a bowel movement every 1-2 weeks
+ Hard, lumpy stools. Can form large and long clumps, sometimes with blood mixed in
+ The baby feels pain and has to cry every time he goes to the toilet
+ Prolonged constipation makes the baby anorexic, slow to gain weight, slow to develop
Solution: To help their baby have a bowel movement, some parents often look to solutions such as using an enemas or chemical laxatives. One common point of these solutions is that they are quick and convenient, but if used for a long time, they can cause some adverse complications that affect the treatment process and the development of children.