#AskTheExpert My son's stool is like dark hard balls (image attached) for the last 2 months. Sometimes, he pushed too hard to poop like in constipation but sometimes he poops normally. Why it is so? Is there anything to worry about? What to do in this case?

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whenever such type of hard stools are present that means that the child is having constipation
Your child is having constipation for which kindly give plenty of water to drink and fibre diet made from cereals pulses vegetables and fruits. Specially give papaya banana oats fennel seeds water it will help in decreasing constipation and even after that the problem continues kindly meet your doctor for constipation medicine. it is important for you to know that the problem of constipation will improve with increasing age of the child. You may increase or decrease the dosage of constipation medicine if needed according to the consistency of the stool