What reason is neonatal constipation

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Dry stool is constipation, refers to 2 to 3 days without defecation. Neonatal constipation is mostly functional. It is mainly caused by the weakness of digestive tract smooth muscle and the deficiency of digestive juice and enzymes. It should be noted that there is no defecation or only a small amount of yellow and white feces after birth, which is often the symptom of neonatal intestinal congenital malformation. Early diagnosis and timely surgical treatment should be made. Let's talk about the cause of neonatal constipation.

What reason is neonatal constipation

First, the influence of feeding factors. Artificial feeding or diet is too fine, too much protein intake of children often cause dry stool. Such as pure milk feeding, from birth half a month, normal stool, once a day, to the full moon, will be 2 to 3 days defecation. If the baby is not sick, normal feeding and weight gain, it can continue to feed after adding sucrose in the milk. If it is breast-feeding, the amount of breast milk is insufficient, and the baby is often in a state of semi starvation, the amount of stool is bound to decrease, and it will be every 2-3 days. At this time, the rate of neonatal weight gain will slow down, so infant formula should be added. If there is no disease, the child's stool and weight gain should return to normal. Therefore, newborns can be fed some fresh vegetable juice, fruit juice, every day can also be properly fed sesame oil, increase the effect of smooth intestine.

Second: infection. There is abscess around the anus of the newborn, which can also cause constipation. After examination, the newborn anus and anus around the swelling, tenderness and wave motion, should be sent to the hospital immediately, incision, discharge pus at the same time, take antibiotics.

Third: congenital malformation. In neonates with congenital anal atresia or anal stricture, there is no fetal discharge. Hirschsprung's disease, many days defecate, abdominal distension is obvious, after enema will discharge a lot of gas and feces. This kind of situation should be diagnosed to the hospital in time.

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Neonatal defecation mechanism is not mature, so it is unable to defecate regularly, and often has to accumulate more stool. The nerves in the rectal wall feel the expansion pressure, causing reflex defecation. This is the reason why some infants defecate once a few days. Stimulation with a thermometer can induce reflex, so it can also cause defecation. For children who eat mother's milk, because the absorption of mother's milk is more complete and the amount of stool is less, some babies will defecate once a few days instead, not necessarily at any time. Therefore, a few days of neonatal defecation is not necessarily constipation, to determine whether the neonatal constipation method is to observe the stool character, if the character is normal, a few days of defecation is normal.