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Disorders of the Bowels in Infants.
Disorders of the Bowels in Infants:
The bowel complaints of infancy constitute a large part of the
disorders requiring the attention of a medical adviser. Indeed, the
alimentary canal of the child may be regarded in general as an
index to its general condition, since any departure from health is
soon signalized by the derangement of this most susceptible portion of the individual. It should be understood that a certain
amount of latitude in the frequency and character of the intestinal
evacuations is consistent with a healthy condition. It may be
stated in general terms that during the first year of life the child
should have two movements of the bowels in twenty-four hours,
and during the second and subsequent years at least one during
the same period. Yet just as certain variations and peculiarities
are observed among different individuals in adult life, so a certain
amount of departure from the usual rule is not inconsistent with
the natural condition of the infant, and it should be always remembered, and cannot be too emphatically insisted upon, that a
derangement of the bowels is, in the majority of cases in infancy,
not a disease of the intestine, but a symptom of an unnatural
condition elsewhere ; and the first indication is always to seek the
cause of the difficulty - to ascertain the unnatural conditions to
which the child may have been in any way exposed. The indiscriminate use of drugs in the treatment of bowel complaints is
often productive of harm ; first, because the attention is thereby
directed and confined exclusively to the bowels, while the true
cause of the difficulty often lies elsewhere ; and, second, because
the disordered action of the bowels is often merely a safety-valve
for the relief of some other condition, and the effort to check that
disorder may favor the continuance of the primary difficulty.
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