One of the manifestations of baby constipation is the reduction of defecation times, and the other is the difficulty of defecation. Children are "the body of pure yang", and their yang belongs to juvenile yang, so they should not use "fire-destroying" drugs or therapeutic prescriptions easily, and should not interfere excessively to damage their chances of survival. However, all drugs with heat-clearing and detoxicating effects are often cold, which is easy to damage children's young yang. Because children's spleen is often insufficient, it will lead to spleen and stomach deficiency.
There are also differences between excess and deficiency when getting angry. Parents think that children should first look at the symptoms when they get angry. Deficiency fire generally shows that the baby's hands and feet are hot, dry mouth is not thirsty, sleeping and tumbling at night, sweating obviously at night, thin body, less red tongue and less fur, and dry stool; Real fire often causes dry mouth, bad breath, red lips, red face, increased gum, thick and hard stool, or fever, red tongue or crimson tongue with yellow fur. Both of these two kinds of "excessive internal heat" can produce sheep dung and egg-like stools, and the feces are hard.
In daily life, parents can give their baby a proper amount of probiotics, adjust the intestinal flora, or drink more water. If the baby doesn't like drinking water, freshly squeezed juice and vegetable juice are rich in dietary fiber and vitamins, which is a good choice. At the same time, it is recommended to eat some coarse grains, such as corn, brown rice, oats, black rice and so on. It is also necessary to change the diet structure and have a comprehensive diet; Change your eating habits and give priority to vegetables. After the baby's dinner is settled in kindergarten, you can eat some fruits when you get home, and don't eat with your family again, so as not to cause food accumulation.
It is also particularly important to develop the habit of defecation. Fixed defecation time may be chosen half an hour after meals. At the same time, we should pay attention to more exercise, physical exercise and outdoor activities. Kneading your stomach clockwise before going to bed and getting up early can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and assist defecation.
Dry weather is also one of the causes of baby constipation. If the stool remains unsolved for several days, you can stimulate the anus with kaisai dew or a small soapy head that is lubricated. If parents can't tell the cause of Baba dryness, it's best to take the baby to the hospital for professional conditioning. Both oral Chinese medicine and external therapy are good choices to help the child solve the problem.
In terms of food and nutrition, people with excessive deficiency fire often use the method of nourishing yin to reduce fire. You can give your baby some sweet and cool products such as Chinese cabbage, fungus, tremella, lily, Sydney, lotus root and tofu to nourish yin and reduce fire, and avoid spicy and irritating things that hurt blood. Those who are really hot can eat some products that can clear away heat and reduce fire, such as watermelon, bitter gourd, mung bean and cucumber, or eat some foods that can promote defecation, such as bananas, pitaya, kiwi fruit, spinach, celery, sweet potatoes, black sesame seeds and walnuts. If children don't like fruit, they can make fruit salad to attract attention, and then eat less sweets, fried, barbecue and other foods.
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(Author Gong Jiping, Beijing Tongzhou District Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, practicing physician)