Aconite [Acon]
Much heat about the child’s head; child feverish, restless, sleepless, gnaws its first; stools hard and difficult.
Alumina [Alum]
Inertia of rectum; long-standing cases which resisted other drugs; abuse of farinaceous food; child has to make great effort to pass even a soft stool.
Antimonium-crud [Ant-c]
constipation with difficult hard stools, faeces too large; costiveness with incarcerated flatus; hard lumps of curd; useful after abuse of laxatives.
Apis-mell [Apis]
Constipation in meningeal affections of children; who are restless, scream our in sleep, scanty urination, and grasp the occiput where they feel the pain.
Bryonia [Bry]
Faeces hard, dry as if burnt and of a dark color, and so large as to give great pain in passing; dry lips and mouth; alternation of constipation with diarrhoea.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
Hard, undigested, chalky stools of a light color; poorly developed bones; dry scald head.
Chamomilla [Cham]
Constipation during dentition; excessive dryness of faeces; crumbling during stool, from inactivity of anus.
Causticum [Caust]
TIMID CHILDREN; AFRAID TO GO TO BED ALONE; abdomen swollen and hard; knotty stool, like sheep’s dung, with red face from straining; nocturnal enuresis.
Graphites [Graph]
Mucus coated stools of uncommon, size and very large; humid eruption on body, especially behind ears, oozing out a transparent gluey discharge.
Hepar [Hep]
Constipation, stools hard and dry, especially with eruption in bend of elbows or in the popliteal space; faeces, not hard, expelled with difficulty.
Hydrastis [Hydr]
Colic with constipation; excoriation on or about the anus.
Kreosotum [Kreos]
CONSTIPATION IN EMACIATED CHILDREN, during dentition; stools hard, dark, day, only passed after a terrible effort, during which child struggles and screams as if it would go into a fit.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
Child cries before and while urinating, as well as during and after stool, which is difficult, dry and hard, much flatulence; red sand on diaper; severe pain in back before urinating or defaecating.
Magnesia-mur [Mag-m]
Stools crumbling as they pass the verge of the anus (Chamomilla); knotty like sheep’s dung (Causticum); abdomen distended; frequent desire to stool.
Natrum-mur [Nat-m]
Chronic diarrhoea of children; greenish, bloody, watery stool, often chafing; irregular stools; sometimes two or three days, then constipation.
Nitric-acid [Nit-ac]
Pain of evacuation great during and and after passage, as though the little sufferer and fissura ani; moisture about anus; (<) in warm weather.
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
CHILD IS BROUGHT UP TOO EARLY ON ANIMAL FOOD, or the nurse takes too much coffee and lives too high; stools difficult, or small, frequent and painful, with much colic. Antiperistaltic action of
intestines.
Opium [Op]
Stools in round, hard, black balls; total inertia of bowels.
Platina [Plat]
Stools only after great effort, so that the faeces must be extracted by manual operation; faeces composed of small, hard, black pieces (Alumina, dry and pale).
Plumbum [Plb]
Stools composed of conglomerated hard, black balls; with urging and terrible pain from constriction or spasm of anus.
Podophyllum [Podo]
OBSTINATE CONSTIPATION FOLLOWING DIARRHOEA in artificially brought-up children; stools very hard, of a clay color, streaked green, very sticky and tenacious; excessively offensive; rolling of head, with moaning during sleep; eyes half open.
Psorinum [Psor]
Obstinate constipation of children after failure of usual drugs; painful straining with colic, (>) by passing foetid flatus.
Sepia [Sep]
Stools very difficult to discharge, hard, knotty, mixed, or covered with mucus; they seem to remain in the lower part of rectum and to require the assistance of the nurse for their removal (Platina).
Silicea [Sil]
Stools are with difficulty forced to the very verge of the anus, when they slip back again; rectum inactive; spine weak; the child’s head and face perspire copiously directly upon its falling asleep.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Intertrigo, pimply eruptions, soreness of anus, so that it screams at every attempt to evacuate the bowels, from excoriations of anus and adjacent parts. Failure or well- indicated drugs.
Veratrum-alb [Verat]
Faeces cannot be passed, from inertia of rectum, but a healthy stool can be procured at any time by an injection; pallor and cold sweat from the exertion, with exhaustion after stool; general depression of vitality.