Why do children have constipation?
Constipation is an ordinary trouble for children. Annoying as it may be, do your best to keep it in point of view. With your tolerance and support, your child will eventually found regular bowel routine. You might expect thoughts about your child‘s utensils to end with the last diaper. But successful toilet training doesn’t prevent occasional difficulty with bowel schedule. Constipation is among the most common.
Most babies have at least several bowels schedule a day. By age 3, however, most kids are down to about one bowel movement a day — or even less. In children, signs and symptoms of constipation may include:
1. No bowel schedule for several days.
2. Bowel schedule those are hard, dry and difficult to pass.
3. Nausea, vomiting or weight loss.
4. Abdominal pain.
5. Traces of liquid or clay-like stool in the child‘s underwear — a sign that stool is backed up in the rectum.
6. Bright red blood on the surface of hard stool.
Constipation usually goes away on its own. Start by making sure your child gets enough fiber. Fiber is immense and holds water in the bench making it softer and easier to pass. Eating more fruits, raw vegetables, bran, and whole-grain breads and cereals — and limiting milk and other dairy products — can help. Drinking plenty of water can help, too. So can normal physical activity.











I agree! Children constipate because of the foods they eat. As parents, we should make sure that our kids get the right nutrition through healthy foods. It’s also important to give them plenty of water to avoid constipation.