1 How to recognize infirmity in infants?

First of all, you need to know how many times a day a baby has defecation, what color and consistency its stool. How is emptying - long, fast, is there any pain in this. The parent of the baby should know all this. From his attention should not slip away anything.

The older the child becomes, the less bowel movements per day he performs. So, in the first weeks of her life the baby can emptied 5 to 10 times in 24 hours. By the year he will be emptied only once a day. And this is the physiological norm for the child.

It does not count as a violation if the infusion of infants occurs once a day. If the feces of the baby are soft, like a thick porridge, this is also not a violation. Kale becomes like a sausage only for one-year-old children. The color of the stool varies depending on the diet: from yellow to light brown. Feces go out without pain and pain. If these indicators take place, it means that the baby is okay.

When the child has adiarrhea, almost everything changes. The stool becomes hard, defecation occurs less frequently than once in 24 hours. The color becomes dark. The baby can see that it hurts during defecation, the stomach is swollen. Here you can not get lost, but you should remember how to help the child with constipation. By the way, there is an opinion that the baby is not afraid of breastfeeding. This is not so, constipation in children occurs not only because of the lack of mother's milk.

2 Causes of problems

There are many reasons for the appearance of constipation in a baby, the main ones are offered here:

1. A rare, but still valid, cause is the anatomical defect of the large intestine. Was described by Dr. Gishprung. Until now, this reason for the appearance of adiarrea in a newborn is controversial, however, scientists are not in a hurry to remove it from the accounts.
2. Constipation in newborns often happens through the mother's fault, of course, if breastfeeding takes place. The fact is that the mother's nutrition is directly related to the work of the intestine of her child. In this regard, so that the child does not suffer from constipation, the mother must refuse white bread, meat, nuts, bananas, rice, coffee, black tea.
3. If the newborn is not given enough drinking, then it is possible the appearance of adiarrea. Especially it concerns children on artificial feeding.
4. Constipation in the baby will be necessary if it is too early to introduce a bait in the diet. Experts recommend starting to feed an infant not earlier than 6 months. Until this time, the child is quite correctly and normally develops only on mother's milk.
5. If you sharply transfer the baby from the usual feeding to a new mixture or from the mother's milk to an artificial mixture. You can not do this abruptly and immediately, this will necessarily cause constipation.
6. Low intake of fiber or fiber. That is, the child must necessarily eat vegetable or fruit purees. If, however, the child consumes little liquid, then the disk will be required.
7. Children often get sick, and they, like adults, prescribe an antibiotic. He successfully fights against a disease, for example with purulent otitis or pneumonia. But the side effect of an antibiotic is a disco. It is clear that it is better to cure pneumonia, and if there is constipation due to an antibiotic, then it will help him get rid of constipation.
8. Despite the fact that the kid does not understand much of the year, he takes a break from his mother very sharply, for example, if she fell ill. Against the background of these experiences, the baby can begin adiarrea.
9. There is still such a phenomenon, which is sometimes called a hunger constipation. This happens in a situation where the mother has too little milk, and everything that the child ate, absorbed by his body almost without a trace. Thus, the baby simply does not have feces. So in essence it is not constipation.

The reasons given here for constipation are called functional. That is, constipation is due to violations of the intestine, and not because of diseases. Specialists can determine this form of constipation by the feces of a child.

3 Species of the phenomenon

Constipation in a child can be of three types: functional described above, can still be spastic and atonic. Atonic constipation is characterized by a low tone of the intestine. The density of the first portion of feces exceeds the norm. The size is also more than normal and causes the child pain. The following portions of the stool are of a normal consistency and color.

Spasm of the intestine can cause spastic constipation. With such a disco, the child defecates with feces resembling pellets. Feces are dry, almost spherical and very dense. When defecating, the child experiences pain, in addition to this, he is abdominal distention. The difference between these constipations should be known, this will help parents to properly help the infant with adiarrea.

4 Methods of treatment

How to help a child with constipation? Before you start taking any measures to eliminate constipation, you need to understand the cause of its occurrence. Sometimes for this purpose it is just necessary to normalize the baby's nutrition, and the problem will pass by itself.

If constipation occurs against the background of taking antibiotics, you need to give the baby Bifidobactrin. It is a remedy with living bacteria that will put the baby's intestinal flora in order. Or it is possible to give the baby Acipol - the remedy is also called to put in order the level of beneficial bacteria in the intestine.

If constipation is spastic, make a light tummy massage. These are simple circular strokes. Do not manipulate counter-clockwise! Sometimes it is enough to just press the baby to the chest. The closeness and warmth of the mother acts soothingly on the baby.

Atonic constipation is treated with exercise. For example, bending the knees to the stomach and straightening them, then you can put the baby on your stomach. These simple procedures will lead to the fact that the baby's intestines will work correctly. If constipation occurs for the rare reason described in the first paragraph - the curvature of the rectum, then surgery is likely to be a surgical operation.

5 Medication Therapy

How to help a newborn with constipation medically? Very careful. Conventional laxatives for a child are strictly contraindicated. Even, it would seem, an innocent enema for a baby is not recommended. The fact is that it is possible to seriously disrupt the intestinal microflora with any laxatives, regardless of whether the infant is breastfeeding or artificial.

The only harmless, from this point of view of complications, is Dufalac - syrup for children. It contains lactulose. This syrup can be given to the baby and the nursing mother. It does not violate the natural microflora of the intestine and acts very gently. I do not get used to it.

Children older than six months can be given another means of Forlaks, also has a relatively mild effect in the absence of consequences for the intestines. I do not get used to it.

A baby with a constipation can make a glycerin candle, but you still need to find out the origin of constipation. The candle should not be a panacea.

6 Conclusion and conclusions

For any constipation, consult a physician.

Only a competent specialist will say what to give the child in the case of adiarrea. One should not blindly believe in the miracles of folk medicine and use questionable ways of treating constipation.

For example, there is an ancient way to treat constipation with a soap enema. You should know that soap is made from alkali. And alkali adversely affects the baby's microflora. You can consciously make your child an enema with alkali? Constipation after this, he certainly will not, but the consequences of such an enema can be much worse. In addition, when this method was invented, the soap was loose and from natural products - bone meal and fat. Modern soap in addition to dyes and flavors also contains a lot of chemical elements, to put it mildly, not very useful for the child.

Another popular way of fighting is to irritate the anus with a stick or some other subtle object. In this case, the likelihood of damaging your child's skin with a foreign object is incredibly high, and even during defecation, the child will experience pain. In addition, it will not cure constipation. It just speeds up the defecation process. And if you do not cure constipation, how much time do you have to irritate the baby's anus with a stick?

So if the child has constipation, what to do to you, the doctor will tell, and not the grandmother of the medicine man. Still, a person does not have a medieval level of development. Be attentive to your child, watch him and your health.