Question
Twenty days ago, the child experienced bloody stools. After treatment in the hospital and discharge, the condition recurred, and the child underwent another round of anti-inflammatory treatment, but there is still a small amount of bloody stools.
Answer
To help your baby alleviate the discomfort caused by constipation, it is essential to find the cause of the child’s constipation so that targeted solutions can be implemented. The most common cause is inadequate diet, such as not introducing complementary foods in a timely manner or insufficient sugar content in milk, which can lead to insufficient residue after digestion. This can result in constipation in children. Additionally, improper dietary composition for children is also a contributing factor to constipation. High protein and calcium content in food often makes stools alkaline and dry, leading to constipation. Moreover, the lack of a regular bowel habit, or failure to train for regular bowel movements, or interference when the child has a bowel movement desire but cannot defecate in time, causing stool to stay in the large intestine for too long, can all lead to constipation in children. If the child has a disease in the anal area or rectum, they may consciously or unconsciously inhibit defecation due to fear of pain during defecation, which can also cause constipation. Therefore, it is especially important to remind parents to carefully check for any abnormalities around the child’s anus so that early diagnosis and treatment can be initiated.