Rice cereal causes constipation

Lil General was introduced to his first solid food - Cerelac's Stage 1 Rice cereal yesterday. His bowel movements have since reduced considerably and he has been straining a lot causing him extreme discomfort and wanting him not to feed anything. Earlier, when there was constipation he used to bite the bottle that would help him relieve himself. I'm slowly weaning him away from the bottle for fear of infection, so that has aggravated the problem.

Seeing the little kid strain so much, I decided to give him dried grape water mixed with saunf. It did wonders. Within a an hour of having it, he had a good bowel movement and the boy is happy and playing again.

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Home remedy to treat constipation in infants

Constipation is a commom problem if the baby is on supplement food and not on mother's milk. External foods like Lactogen, Nusobee etc can lead to gassiness and constipation causig extreme incovinience to kids. My granny's advice is to give 3 balck currants boiled in water with little saunf. Drain this water and feed this water to the baby. You might want to check with your Doctor however as Doctors advice against giving commercial gripe water these days.