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Constipation and gas with 2 months old
My baby is a preterm baby, born at 33 weeks 5 days with birth weight 1.786kgs . She is 2 months old now and is mostly on formula . She earlier had hard stool issues with Nestle prenan due to which we shifted to Similac Advance 1after she crossed 2.5 kgs of weight. But now , she is constipated with the same too. Please help.
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Dr. J Prabhakar Rao
Pediatrician
32 yrs exp
Ghaziabad
Ensure correct ratio of water and formula,brand is irrelevant.
Give feeds at a gap of at least 3 hours.
You can try mixing 1 tsf of sugar to 100 ml of reconstituted formula.
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