Symptoms Of Constipation In Kids
Some of the symptoms of constipation are: blood on the surface of hard stool, your child fears that having a bowel movement will hurt, abdominal pain, and traces or liquid or clay-like stool in your child's underwear.
"The first step in constipation is being aware. Sometimes parents are really either unaware that their child is constipated or they don't recognize the signs appropriately. Prevention is the best thing for constipation, you want to avoid getting to the point where you're so constipated you wind up in an emergency room," says Jennifer Couceyro, Advanced Registered Nurses Practitioner with Baptist Children's Hospital.