Constipation-description

Constipation Syndrome is characterized by slow transit, chairs strengthened with elimination difficult and incomplete. This is a problem common in children and often passing without worrying parents.

When children do not consume enough fiber in their diets or liquid vegetable and not done enough to create conditions conducive to movement of developing constipation.

Children often refuse to go to the bathroom in embarrassment to use a public toilet be ashamed to communicate the need to go to the bathroom, not wanting to interrupt the game and thus delay the evacuation of faeces, which results in water resumption in seat to strengthen it and subsequent removal difficult. In other cases the cause of constipation can be represented by administering certain drugs.

Symptoms of constipation include:

- Lack of transit for several days or removal of seats reduced quantitatively but with difficulty

- abdominal pain cramps form

- Loss of appetite, nausea and even vomiting

- Belly relaxed volume

- Weight loss - in children

- Low seats quantitative gleroase

- Rectal pain on defecation, they are eliminating the seat difficult and may cause the baby to avoid defecation thus entering a vicious circle

- Are visible efforts of defecation of children

Situations where you should appeal to medical advice are:

- When episodes of constipation lasts more than 3 weeks

- When the child becomes unable to operate normally

- When perianal skin lesions appear due to constipation

- Occurs when small fragments of mucosa through the anus or hemorrhoids

- Treatment depends on the child's age and the severity of this problem. Often enough change food and its enrichment plant fiber from fruits, vegetables, grains, higher levels of consumption of fluids and encourage children to exercise more.

In some cases where removal is difficult seat need to be doing an enema child - handle the introduction in the rectum of a quantity of liquid that hardened feces ease removal. Will then be given laxatives easy to prevent recurrence of episodes of constipation.

To facilitate evacuation chairs may also be useful to introduce Glycerin suppositories which will have a lubrication of the anal canal and rectum.

Misuse of laxatives is not recommended, their administration is recommended to do by the doctor.

Although these problems do not have to worry about the father in most cases resolve by itself or after the coming change in diet. When the child fails to vacate the seat by defecation.