Constipation accompanied by the development of a child’s chronic lethargy, weakness, loss of appetite to the damage of the processes of digestion and enhancing absorption of harmful substances from the stool.
When the accumulation of stool in the lumen of the gut is disturbed nutrition of the mucosa.
Chronic defecation delay leads to violation of intestinal microflora, increasing the number of pathogenic and reduce the normal microflora.
There is a malabsorption of vitamins and trace elements, which leads to other violations of exchange in cells and tissues of the body, gradually developing iron deficiency.
There also can develop inflammation in the intestine (colitis), increase intestinal motility, which is accompanied by abdominal pain, to expand the diameter of intestine, which would have increased to more constipation.
