Infant constipation is a common health issue among a growing amount of infants. As a result, parents have to understand what infant constipation is by definition - when the child finds it difficult to poop when it should. This is a scary thing and if you know the potential harm, you should be scared too for the life of the baby. Here is when you'd want to use these baby constipation remedies:
When children have constipation, you'll notice various trends in them. They'll find it hard to poop. They will strain a lot just to pass out feces and they may cry a lot as a result of the discomfort they are feeling.
Infant constipation can be caused by many factors. The largest factor is the switching from breast milk to formula or the changing of formulas without consulting with their pediatrician first. However if a child has inadequate fluid in her body system, it is likely to develop constipation because of the body's tendency to absorb fluid from the food material traveling along the digestive tract. You should also note that infants must pass their first stool within 24 hours after birth. If the child doesn’t do this after 48 hours, then it is possible that there is a more dangerous malady affecting the infant and causing it not to be able to poop. You would have to consult the pediatrician for diagnosis.
Since constipation is not limited to just adults alone, infants have them too. Over ninety percent of all diseases and malfunctions of a child’s body (as with adults) stem from the unclean intestinal tract, constipation, with infrequent or difficult evacuation of the feces, retention of the feces, and lack of coordination in the nerve and muscle functions of the colon and bowel”. So, you see that constipation is not in the exclusive preserve of the adults alone.
Hence to sustain an optimal bodily function in your child, you'll need to ensure that your child passes it's stools when due. Give your child enough fluids to intake. Do not switch abruptly from breast milk to formula or from one formula to another without consulting a pediatrician.
Popular myths such as the use of glycerin suppositories should be shunned as even doctors do not advise it. It is better to have a small amount of water inserted in the infant's colon using an infant bulb syringe. Also, karo syrup for infant constipation is not in any way good for a baby's health as it contains sugar which is extremely unhealthy for babies.
Mineral oil too which is made up of hydrocarbons is highly dissuaded as it has no nutritional value in the body of the child but only interferes with the absorption of vitamins in the body.
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