A 2 month old child has constipation: what to do?

1 Symptoms of the disease

In medicine constipation is considered difficult or irregular, untimely or incomplete emptying of the intestine. To understand all the subtleties of constipation treatment, it is necessary to understand how and for what a person empties the intestines. Not all the amount of food eaten by our body is absorbed, some part remains in the intestines, so it should be cleaned regularly. The digested food turns into feces and enters the rectum, where it accumulates, and gradually the volume of accumulation increases, it begins to press on the walls of the rectum, which causes the urge to defecate.

The nutrition of a child in two months is either breastfeeding or dairymixture. To receive a fiber the baby still can not, as, according to the recommendations of the World Health Organization, the lure is introduced no earlier than 6 months. Namely, cellulose helps prevent constipation, because it is not fully absorbed by the human body( examples of fiber are vegetables, fruits and cereals).Therefore, many new mothers and face a lack of stool.

Talk about problems associated with constipation in a two-month-old baby( especially breastfeeding), then when the lack of a daily chair worries him.

This can be manifested:

• in pronounced restless behavior;
• is crying;
• in attempts to push and groan( with the face blushing);
• in bloating;
• in the absence of gases;
• in dense calcified feces.

If the baby is ejaculated once every 3-4 days and does not show signs of a painful condition and discomfort, then this is considered the norm. This is due to the fact that the digestibility of breast milk is very high. If infants rarely empty the intestines, this indicates that the food they receive is of high quality and suitable for them.

2 Methods of treatment

Starting to treat constipation in a child, you must first find out what's the reason. It is necessary to show observation and show the baby to the child's doctor.

The most common way to deal with constipation in a two-month-old baby can be without resorting to medications. It is necessary to organize the life and nutrition of the baby so that he receives enough water that the room in which he is located is ventilated and with humid air, so that he walks in the open air every day, so that it is not overheated, not wrapped unnecessarily, dopaivaliwater, if it is required( especially artificial children).

Regular bowel massages( stroking clockwise), bowel movements, balanced nutrition of the mother( for children on the GW) help to improve bowel function.

If all this does not help, and it is urgently needed to save the baby from the pain, pediatricians are allowed to resort to the following methods:

1. Candles with glycerin. Introduced rectally, about 1/3 of the suppository. Store candles in the refrigerator, before insertion, remove and hold at room temperature for about 5 minutes, the anus of the baby can be smeared with petroleum jelly. Candles act by dilution of feces, the result should be expected within an hour, but it can manifest itself instantly.
2. Microclysters Microlax. This remedy is approved for use by both pregnant women and children from birth. The spout of microclysters is half inserted into the anus of the baby and squeezed out all the contents of the tube. Fecal masses are liquefied and come out within 15 minutes along with traces of the drug. The drug may be addictive.
3. Enema. A syringe with boiled water 37 ° C or with saline solution is injected into the anal opening to a depth of 1.5 -2 cm and the whole content is slowly injected. The feet of the baby should be maintained. At the end of the procedure, it is advisable to ensure that the entire volume of the injected liquid is removed. The syringe should be chosen with a rubber or silicone tip, and before applying it, lubricate it with cream or cosmetic vaseline.
4. Laxatives. A variant of a laxative for a child can be syrups containing lactulose. For example Dufalac. The doctor can prescribe drops Hilak forte, Bifidumbacterin forte and other means, but the application is possible only with the consent of the doctor!
5. Mechanical stimulators. This can be a gas pipe or a cream-wadded cotton swab. At a distance of not more than 2 cm they are inserted into the anus of the baby and gently rotated. With this method, you should be very careful, since it is very easy to damage the thin walls of the baby's intestines.

Cleansers and laxatives wash away the beneficial microflora, can irritate the intestines and cause addiction, so the application should be minimized. Better try to eliminate the cause, not the consequence.

Until recently, such methods of treating constipation as a piece of laundry soap embedded in the anus, or an attempt to irritate the large intestine with a thermometer tip were acceptable in everyday life. These methods have nothing to do with treatment, they can only harm and be dangerous to health.

3 Prevention of problems with

chair One of the main causes of constipation is a lack of fluid in the baby's body. This leads to the fact that the feces become thick, their movement along the intestine is complicated. Try to protect the baby from thirst and excessive sweating. If the child is artificial, it must be doped with clean boiled water. Breast milk also contains water, but in order to do without dopaivany, you must be sure that the moisture in the child's body is spent properly. He should not spend it on cooling the body if it was wrapped in a room with a temperature of 26-28 ° C.

The baby should live in comfort conditions:

• temperature - 18 ° C;
• humidity - 50%;
• the room is regularly ventilated;
• daily wet cleaning;
• daily walks in the fresh air( duration varies depending on temperature).

To the means of preventing constipation at this age can be attributed and the correct exercise( laying on the stomach), daily massage and a diet for mothers( with GV).

4 How to eliminate the causes of irregular stools as they grow up?

When a child is a month, 2 or 3, the problem of constipation is a frequent occurrence, since the gastrointestinal tract is not fully formed, and the mother is not yet accustomed to correctly and quickly understand the infant and create the necessary conditions for him.

As a child grows up, at 6 months, the child can already get the necessary amount of fiber in his daily diet, this changes the regularity and consistency of the stool. It is important to introduce correct and timely lure.

Approaching the age of 1 year, the baby will be able to commit defecation on the pot. In this situation, it may cause trouble for psychological constipation if the pot was chosen incorrectly or become uncomfortable for the child. Try to exclude such scenario of events.

In kindergarten and school, a child faces the need to visit a public toilet, which is often dirty and unpleasant. This leads to the fact that children suffer, harming their own health. Try to teach the child to go to the toilet in a certain mode, in the morning or evening, when he is at home.

A child up to 6 months of age, regardless of whether he is breastfeeding or with a dry, adapted mixture, has the right to feces of any color, consistency and frequency, if this does not cause him discomfort. Constipation is never the only symptom of a dangerous illness. If it is one of the symptoms, then it will be accompanied by developmental lag, abdominal tenderness, difficulty with swallowing, etc.

Try to create comfortable conditions for the baby, and the problem of constipation will bypass you, but for an emergency it is necessary to keep special candles in your home medicine cabinet.