INDEX
1.- CONSTIPATION NATURAL TREATMENT - BABIES
2.- CONSTIPATION IN THE PREGNANCY

1.-CONSTIPATION NATURAL TREATMENT -  BABIES

Hard stools of the babies or the child who spaced 3 or more days. Constipation, also known as constipation is defined as retention of the fecal matters, which translates clinically by a decrease in the number of the evacuations, as well as an increase in the consistency of the stool. Intestinal processes of babies depend to a great extent on their feeding, on average, a babyunder 6 months should evacuate at least once a day at least. From the two years, children can take one to two bowel movements per day. In summary, intestinal rate in childhood varies with the age and each child. Constipation is commonly caused by an accumulation of hard, dry stool in the descending colon, that gives rise to a painful evacuation producing a permanent distension of the rectal blister. This distension diminishes the perception of the receivers and disappears the desire to evacuate. A vicious circle is triggered therefore that prolongs the situation.

CONSTIPATION MUST TO A POOR FIBER DIET
Symptoms
• Abdominal pain.
• Difficulty to defecate.
• Hard faeces.
• Sporadic and painful evacuations.
Remember the consistency of the faeces is more important than the frequency of the evacuations.

Treatment
• The doctor surely will prescribe a rich fiber diet and fruits. In addition, he    will propose a routine of physical exercises.
• Also he can suggest the introduction of a liquid petroleum jelly teaspoon    or another mixed mineral emulsion in foods.
• Like last instance, he can recommend supositorio of petroleum jelly in    small children; or a laxative or enema in children majors. But only as a    last resort.

Natural treatment
• Alfalfa: Their attributes are verified, that in the market are alfalfa tablets, because a daily ingestion of this one, or the one that the    specialist prescribes, it prevents the constipation. Also it can eat alfalfa buds. The alfalfa by its content of cellulose (high) stimulates and    accelerates the intestinal evacuation. If the person does not wish east effect on her organism, can boil it. In these conditions the proteins and    the minerals take advantage, but vitamins are lost.

• Apple: To eat apples in the morning bordered and oxidized first thing.
• Asparagus: To express asparagus and to take a pair from spoonfuls of its juice to the day.
• Barley: To toast the barley and to reduce it to dust. To take in uninformed, one or two cups, with or without sugar to the pleasure.
• Carrot: He is laxative. To consume carrots habitually.
• Cherimoya: To eat cherimoyas by its vitamin content C.
• Choclo: It is very good for eating choclo in the meals. The jumped one of choclo with tomatos must be essential.

• Diet: To have them to diet (fruits, vegetables, cereals, salads and    juices) with abundant liquid.
• Fig: He is laxative. To boil 3 water figs during a quarter of an hour. To let    rest, drink the liquid and eat figs to the following morning.
• Fruits: The dried fruits, like fig, can be a great ally.
• Grape:  To eat the whole grape or the grape happens, without rejecting the skin.
• Handle: To ingest handle juice. To eat mature handle in uninformed.
• Infusion:  To prepare an infusion of mallow, green green anise, and manzanilla in the middle liter of water. With the liquid 2 are prepared or 3    of the daily takings of drink adding the same amount of dust milk that receives in each taking.
• Integrals: It replaces white breads by integral cereal breads.
• Juice: To give juice him with grapes you happen and to avoid those of guava.
• Mandarin: It stimulates the intestinal motilidad. To consume the white pulp that there is underneath the skin and between gores of the    mandarin and that does not agree to reject.
• Liquorice: To realise the same with liquorice infusions.
• Milky: To consume generally milky.
• Oats: It facilitates the intestinal transit and it avoids the constipation. To consume oats in abundance.
• Oranges: To consume orange juice.
• Parsley: To make a small ball with fresh leaves of parsley and to grease it with a little olive oil. With the small ball to stimulate the anus of drinks,    the effect is almost immediate.
• Peach trees: In case of greater children, to consume fresh peach trees between meals since they act like laxatives.
• Plum: Juice of compotes of plums, is taken every day. It is a laxative. To consume plums of habitual way, beginning little by little until the    intestine is accustomed especially during the mornings. Very effective    you drink in them.
• Plums: To consume juice compote of plums.
• Pumpkins: They contain abundant fiber. To consume pumpkins daily.
• Spinach: To consume spinach since he is rich in fiber and he is easily digerible. Also to take broth from boiled spinach.
• Tooth of Leon: Infusions by root of lion tooth, with teaspoons sufficient and exercised their laxative activity.
• Vegetables: Preferable of leaves like the beets.
• Yogurt: to include yogurt.

Recommendations
• To massage the part superior of the abdomen with circular movements, could favor its secretions and in this way to eliminate the constipation.
• If the baby is constipated and uncomfortable, we can ease lie face up and moving his leg as the pedals of the bicycle.
• In the smaller facilitating physical activity and movement.
• To have much well-taken care of when the boy begins to eat outside the house like in the day-care center or the school.

CONSTIPATION IN THE PREGNANCY

The constipation/cold is very common between the pregnant women, especially at the end of the gestation, as a result of the reduced gastrointestinal motilidad and of the delay of intestinal casting that produces the pressure of the uterus. Effective medicines in the constipation/cold recommended by the medical gynecologist are mainly the laxatives that act favoring the elimination of lees. The constipation appears frequently in pregnant women, since the fetus occupies a space in the belly where previously the intestine lodged. The capacity of mobility of the intestine is diminished and the excretion of lees becomes difficult. The first measurement to fight has it to be to follow a rich fiber diet, increasing the rations of fruit and vegetables in the daily menu. Also it is helpful to eliminate medicines that can cause constipation (P. ex., antacid with aluminum. In case not outside sufficient, the laxatives are indicated medicines. The laxatives can be differentiated by their mechanism of action.
A poor fiber diet can increase the own constipation of the gestational period. This problem must to the hormonal changes and, in particular, to the increase of the progesterone that, when relaxing the muscles of the intestinal walls, causes that the foods happen more slowly through the digestive system. Thus much is absorbed more water of the deposition in Columbus, hardening it. At the end of the pregnancy and due to the increase of the size of the uterus, it is normal that the woman is constipated, since the intestine is more compressing and produces less mobility. Also it is possible that the iron supplements that recommend the doctors in the pregnancy generally bring about constipation. As preventive measure is advisable to make exercises, drink water and take fresh fruit, as well as rich fiber foods. One is not due to take laxatives without before consulting the doctor.

Natural treatment:

Alfalfa: Their attributes are verified, that in the market are alfalfa tablets, because a daily ingestion of this one, or the one that the specialist prescribes, it prevents the constipation. Also it can eat alfalfa buds. The alfalfa by its content of cellulose (high) stimulates and accelerates the intestinal evacuation. If the person does not wish east effect on her organism, can boil it. In these conditions the proteins and the minerals take advantage, but vitamins are lost.

Apple: To eat apples in the morning bordered and oxidized first thing.

Asparagus: To express asparagus and to take a pair from spoonfuls of its juice to the day.

Barley: To toast the barley and to reduce it to dust. To take in uninformed, one or two cups, with or without sugar to the pleasure.

Camomile: To take 1 - 2 daily cups, to avoid take great doses. It reduces the cold. To abstain to take in great doses since it can be detrimental.
Celery: Able to increase the movements intestinal to help those people who suffer of constipation and to neutralize the excess of bacteria. To consume celery in salads with other vegetables.

Cherimoya: To eat cherimoyas by its vitamin content C.

Eggplants: To consume in salads or soups. There are no contraindications.

Figs: He is laxative. To boil 3 water figs during a quarter of an hour. To let rest, drink the liquid and eat figs to the following morning.

Garlic: To include in the food, coverall in the soups garlic. Also to eat in uninformed up to 5 crude garlic.

Grape: To eat the whole grape or the grape happens, without rejecting the skin.

Corn hair: It is very good for eating corn in the meals. The jumped one of corn with tomatoes must be essential.

Mango: Strengthens the capillaries and prevents rupture of small veins. Decoction during 20 minutes of a pair of semi-dry leaves of handle to the sun during 14 hours, cut in small pieces in a liter of water. To let repose during 60 minutes and take a pair from glasses to the day during 3 days. To take a rest during one week and to repeat the previous treatment.

Linseed: To take 1 to 2 teaspoons from seed Linseed, with a great water glass per day. It is possible to be left soaking the seed during the night in cold water.

Oats: It facilitates the intestinal transit and it avoids the constipation. To consume oats in abundance.
Onion, celery and lemon: To put to boil during half an hour with onion, celery and lemon, soon to take to discretion several times to the day.
Peach trees: To consume fresh peach trees between meals since they act like laxatives.
Plums: To peel a kilo of plums and to clear the bone to them. To cook these plums in 4 or 5 liters of white wine during about 20 minutes. To macerate the plums during 5 days. To leak and to keep in a fresh place. From as much in as much a small glass can be taken from this liquid that is ideal, as much to lift the spirit, like seating those internal that have tendency to originate depositions habitually too soft, beginning little by little until the intestine is accustomed.
Pumpkins: They contain abundant fiber. To consume pumpkins daily. It favors the intestinal transit. To boil an average handful and of leaves of pumpkin by liter of water during 10 minutes. To let rest during half an hour. To take four cups to the day.
Spinach: Eat spinach because it is rich in fiber and is easily digestible. Also take stock of boiled spinach.
Mandarin: It stimulates the intestinal motilidad. To consume the white pulp that there is underneath the skin and between gores of the mandarin and that does not agree to reject.