What causes constipation with bleeding?
Patient: hi doctor, i have a 6 month old baby girl.in a day she is mostly on breast milk and ragi.Two weeks back i started on stage 1 ceralac. for the past 5 days her stool is very hard she does the process with lot of effort. one day she had even bleeding while putting stool.what can be done so that like before her stool is loose. Doctor: Hi.... she might be having this constipation because of ragi in her diet. Ragi is very rich in calcium which predisposes to constipation. I suggest you reduce the ragi and her diet and also include papaya and banana in her diet. I do not suggest using laxatives at this tender age as it might cause severe diarrhoea or it can become habit. I also suggest you restrict the milk intake to maximum 400 ml per day till this constipation is relieved.Regards - Dr. Sumanth