A 2.5-year-old baby has dry and pellet-like stools, struggles with bowel movements, and what to eat

Patient's question:

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Doctor's answer:

Constipation is one of the contributing factors to anal fissures.
1. Dietary Adjustment: For acute fresh anal fissures, adjusting the diet to soften the stool and maintaining good personal hygiene can alleviate symptoms and promote healing of the fissure. Increase your intake of vegetables and fruits, drink more water, and correct constipation.
2. Sitz Bath: Use warm saline or traditional Chinese medicine for sitz baths, with a temperature of 40℃–50℃ (2–3 times daily, each session lasting 20–30 minutes). Warm water sitz baths can relax the anal sphincter, improve local blood circulation, promote inflammation absorption, reduce pain, and clean the area to facilitate wound healing. After the bath, you can insert hemorrhoid suppositories and apply anti-inflammatory and analgesic medications externally to alleviate symptoms.
3. Oral Medications: Take oral laxatives such as psyllium husk, lactulose, or mineral oil to soften and lubricate the stool, making bowel movements easier.