When should you contact the doctor

If the breastfed infant has no defecation for 2 days, you should immediately consult a doctor!

If the child is older, you should seek medical help in the following cases:

• constipation accompanied by complaints of abdominal pain, abdominal distention, reduced appetite;
• in the child’s stool there have been seen blood;
• Child holds defecation for emotional reasons, especially on a pot;
• baby periodically observed encopresis, where the solid fecal accumulate in the rectum, and liquid faeces excreted as a result of involuntary loss of control over the child’s muscular rectum.

First of all you should visit the pediatrician, that he should determine the necessity of other specialists consultations (child neurologist, endocrinologist, surgeon).