If an infant has constipation, it is important to pay attention to dietary adjustment at this time. If the child can eat complementary foods, it is advisable to give the child some fruit and vegetable juices, which can help clear heat and fire, promote digestion. If the child is breastfed, the mother should also pay attention to her diet, avoid eating greasy and easy-to-cause fire foods, and massage the abdomen regularly to promote digestion.

1. Baby Heat Accumulation Constipation:

The characteristics are dry and hard stools like sheep dung, difficulty in defecation, which may be accompanied by symptoms such as abdominal pain, halitosis, and feverish sensation in the palms and soles of the hands and feet. Treatment should be to clear heat and moisten the intestines.

(1)Vegetable Juice Soup: Boil fresh spinach or cabbage and drink the soup.

(2)Radish Juice: Grind red radish into a paste to extract juice (or use a juicer), add an appropriate amount of sugar, cook for 2-3 minutes, and take warm.

(3)Rheum and Egg Yolk Soup: 5-10 grams of rhubarb leaves, 1 egg yolk, a little spinach. Beat the egg yolk in a bowl and set aside. Decoct the rhubarb leaves, remove the dregs and take the juice, add the egg yolk and spinach, boil and serve.

(4)100 grams of soybean skin, decocted in water, take 3 times a day.

2. Baby Deficiency Constipation:

The characteristics are constipation during defecation, difficulty in defecation, or stools become dry first and then loose, accompanied by symptoms such as emaciation, fatigue, lack of strength, and loss of appetite.

(1)Leek Juice: Mash the leek leaves to extract 1 small cup of juice, take with warm water, 1 time in the morning and 1 time in the evening.

(2)Fresh potatoes peeled and chopped, mashed with boiling water, wrapped in gauze, squeezed for juice, take 1-2 spoons on an empty stomach in the morning, for about half a month continuously.

(3)10-20 grams of radish seeds, fried yellow and ground into fine powder, add sugar, dissolve in boiling water, take 1-2 times a day.

(4)15 grams of black sesame seeds, crushed, decocted in water, taken on an empty stomach. Or 10-20 grams of black sesame seeds, roasted, crushed, and mixed into steamed buns or bread, 1-2 times a day.

(5)Boiled sweet potato for eating.

(6)Almond Porridge: 10-20 grams of almonds, 50 grams of yam, 20 grams of walnut meat. Clean and peel the first three ingredients, crush and mix well, add an appropriate amount of water, boil, and take frequently.