What food is most effective for children with constipation

Constipation is a common phenomenon in children. Parents should pay attention to helping their children relieve it correctly. They can make some foods for their children to relieve constipation, such as making bananas, applesauce, or nut and orange peel porridge, which can achieve the effect of moisturizing the intestines and promoting bowel movements.

1. Banana apple puree method: Scrape bananas and apples into puree. Steam it in a pot for 3 minutes, take it out and let it cool before feeding it to your baby. Efficacy: Bananas and apples contain a certain amount of fructose, sugar alcohol and soluble dietary fiber. These substances can not only increase the stimulation of food on intestinal peristalsis, but also prevent the water in the baby's stool from being excessively absorbed by the intestines. Therefore, it is an effective dietary supplement for constipation. Tips: The baby’s stomach is not suitable for eating too much raw fruit. The acidic components in raw fruit are highly irritating and can cause diarrhea and spleen and stomach disorders in the baby. It should be heated appropriately before feeding to the baby.

2. Method of nut and tangerine peel porridge: cut the tangerine peel into shreds, mash almonds, pine nuts and sesame seeds, and fry them together with the tangerine peel; remove the residue and take the juice, then add the polished rice, cook the porridge, add sugar, and sprinkle a small amount of fried nut powder on the porridge for seasoning. Efficacy: Nuts and orange peels can clear the lungs and reduce phlegm, moisten the intestines and promote bowel movements. Tips: Suitable for babies with dry lungs, blocked intestines, bloating in the chest and abdomen, and constipation.

3. How to make sweet potato porridge: Wash and cut the sweet potatoes into pieces, put them into a pot together with rice, add appropriate amount of water and cook into a thick porridge, add sugar, and let children eat it warm in the morning and evening. Efficacy: Sweet potatoes are sweet and mild in nature and non-toxic. It has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, replenishing deficiency, and invigorating qi. Tips: The fiber in sweet potatoes can absorb a lot of water in the intestines, increase the volume of stool, and relieve constipation as effectively as drugs. 4. Preparation of Tremella and orange juice: 10-15 grams of Tremella and 20 ml of fresh orange juice. Wash and soak the white fungus until soft, put it in a bowl and steam it in a pot. Add orange juice and mix. Drink it all at once with the residue and juice. Take 1 dose daily for several days. Efficacy: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Tremella can clear heat from the lungs and nourish lung yin. It is suitable for lung heat gastritis, as well as constipation. Tips: Orange juice can moisten the intestines and promote bowel movements, and it can help with digestion.