Tips for Constipation in Babies & Toddlers
- lots and lots of fluids, but don’t give them too much milk or squash as these can cause constipation
- orange/prune juice
- cycling legs (get little uns to lie down and bend their legs and knees to the chest. We do it to row row row your boat)
- a warm bath
- apple juice
- warm water with some brown sugar in it
- rub/massage their tummies
- linseeds (for toddlers). Add them to anything they eat from cereal to soups and casserole and even pasta. You can buy them ground as well as whole from all supermarkets and health shops
- Prunes blended with two pieces of tinned peaches into a puree
- Movicol or Lactulose (also called Duphalac)
- Anything with skin on will help, e.g. beans, apricots, potatoes
- Prunes mashed in porridge
- Linseed or oatbran disguised in weetabix or porridge is good
PLEASE add to this list!
This is from the NHS on Constipation :
If your child doesn't empty their bowels at least three times a week and their stools (poo) are often hard and difficult to pass, they may be constipated. Their stools may look like little pellets. Soiled pants can be another sign of constipation, as soft stools (diarrhoea) may leak around the hard constipated stools.
Causes of constipation:
Too much milk and too little fibre can cause constipation. It may also suggest that your child is worried or anxious about something. If your child is constipated, they may find it painful to pass stools. This creates a vicious circle: the more it hurts, the more they hold back, the more constipated they get and the more it hurts. Even if passing a stool isn’t painful, once a child is really constipated they’ll stop wanting to go to the toilet altogether.
--Mad Margaret (talk) 
22:27, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
