My baby is 6 month old. He is heavily constipated. His stool is very hard. The stool quantity is very low and hard. He almost cries during passing stool. This made him very fussy all the time and refusing to eat also. He is currently halving cerelac, breast milk, formula milk (dexolac), and rice and dal. What to do?
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Hi lybrate-user, you should stop formula milk. Continue breast feeding and give dal water, rice water, mung ka water. You should 1st start with one then every week you should add other things. 3 to 5 times in a day you should give complementary feed. Give more water based things so constipation would not be an issue. Do thyroid report if constipation is since birth. Â
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Add mashed vegetables and fruits, give little water in between. Â
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Give syp empty 2 ml od. Â
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It's a very common complain among parents for their babies, specially when the baby starts weaning (first foods). It can be due to many factors or causes which can be as simple as reaction of infant's bowel to newly introduced foods to as complex as anal fissures. Try to give a low fibre diet and just to be on the safe side get some investigations done which I have written below. 1. Usg abdomen just to rule out abnormalities in git (if any) and, 2. Thyroid function test. Â
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Give plenty of fluids. Give cadilose syp 5 ml twicw a day. Â
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After 6 month of age you can give water to drink. So increase the frequency of breast milk and givw water also as much as you can. Home made food like rice with milk (phirni, mash roti in daal, mash roti in milk, over all increase the intake of water content. Â
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Usually baby's tend to get constipated at the time of weaniny. Your baby's diet lacks in fibre. Gradually start mashed vegetables and fruits in the diet. And sufficient amount of water has to be given. Proper dilution of the formula is also necessary. If there is lot of pain while passing stools, or injury in the perianal region. The baby will have to be started on stool softener medications. Dosage depends on the baby's weight. Â
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Add sugar in milk that will solve constipation. Â
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If he has completed 6 months then avoid cerelac and dexolac. Give home based feeds 3 times a day along with breast milk .wait for a few days. Â
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Constipation is a issue that needs patient handling with medicines, diet changes and changes in child rearing practices. One to one consultation to understand exact issues would be needed.Â
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Homeopathy is a very effective for this problem n has very encouraging results. And homeopathic medicines are safe and do not have any side effects at all. Safety of the medicines is a major issue when you are to give any medicine to your childÂ
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