Yesterday, a mother asked me in a private letter: My baby is one year old and three months old, and she has constipation at both ends in three days. Shit is like squeezing toothpaste, like sheep dung balls. Everything has been tried, eating pitaya, eating probiotics and drinking more water have no obvious effect. These two days are the best, and the baby is constipated again. Every time she works hard, she can't pull it out. Her face was red and sweaty. As a parent, it hurts in her eyes Doctor, do you have any good conditioning methods?

Constipation is a common phenomenon in childhood. Although the symptoms are similar, the causes are different.

Some babies have constipation in the family. For example, parents are prone to constipation, children are born with less rectal nerves and slow gastrointestinal peristalsis.

There is also a lack of dietary fiber due to refined food intake, that is, eating less high-fiber vegetables and fruits.

Another is because children eat a small amount, eat very little, and then they don't like sports very much, which will also aggravate constipation.

Many parents give their children probiotics and drink plenty of water as soon as they see their children constipation, and then they don't care whether their children are good or not. As a result, their children could not be cured for two days.

In fact, I hope everyone can establish an idea here: constipation is not a disease, but an unhealthy living habit and eating habit, which needs to be adjusted slowly, not immediately after taking a few drugs.

However, unfortunately, many parents always think that this is a disease. When they commit crimes, they take medicine, eat probiotics, eat lactulose, and even use kaisai dew to solve it. Over time, the child's symptoms have not been alleviated, but constipation has become more and more frequent. Drugs that used to be effective are becoming less and less useful.

Having said that, how can we improve children's constipation?

According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, qi deficiency and spleen deficiency in children are the fundamental reasons for repeated constipation. The key to quickly and safely solve constipation in children lies in invigorating spleen and benefiting qi.

Here are some dietotherapy methods for constipation, which are very common ingredients. Parents can do it for their children several times, which is both nutritious and healthy.

1. Yogurt purple sweet potato sauce. Take purple potato 100g and 200ml yogurt. Peel the purple potato and cut into pieces, add appropriate amount of water to boil until it is rotten, and add yogurt when taking out of the pot and mix well.

This dessert can relax the bowels, help digestion, taste sweet and sour, and meet children's tastes.

2. Sweet potato pine nut porridge. Take sweet potato 100g, pine nuts 20g, millet 50g, millet 30g and honey 10ml.

This kind of porridge can not only repair the spleen and stomach, but also moisten the intestines to relieve constipation, which has a good effect on children's intestinal dryness and constipation.

3. American ginseng stewed rock sugar. Take 3-6 grams of American ginseng and 5 grams of rock sugar. Slice American ginseng, put it in a cup with rock sugar at the same time, add 70 ml of water and stew for one hour, only drink sugar water.

The beverage can benefit qi, promote fluid production, moisten intestines and relieve constipation, and has a good curative effect on constipation of qi deficiency type.