A few months ago a mother of four children ranging from the age of seven to fourteen complained that all her four children were suffering from constipation for some time. They have been coming to the clinic and have been advised to take more fibre like cereals, more fruit and vegetables and plenty of fluid but it seemed to no avail as the problem kept on recurring.
The children's stool were hard and they really had problem defecating according to the mother. I noticed that stool softeners had been prescribed on a number of occasions but the problem persisted. I asked whether the parents were also constipated for which the mother answered in the negative.
Interestingly all four have a similar problem. It must be something that they eat. So I asked the mother what was the children's favourite food that they eat most of the time at home.
The mother said that the children loved sausages. She fried them the sausages day and night. And if she did not do so the children themselves will fry and help themselves. They loved sausages and eat them like their staple food.
Now that piqued my curiosity. What is sausage? Sausage is defined as ground meat mixed with fat, salt and other seasoning,preservatives and sometimes fillers. You can actually make your own sausage if you know the recipe and have all the time in the world to do it.
Most people buy them ready-made from the supermarkets and I suppose they can be rather tasty given the right amount of salt and other seasoning and no wonder the children in question got hooked on this "easy food". But eating them everyday is a bit too much as being a processed food there could be too much of certain items such as pectin or thickening causing their stool to be hard.
To cut the story short, I told the pregnant mother to stop buying and serving the children with sausages for a few weeks and see the effect on their bowel and comfort of life.
True enough after a few weeks of no-sausage meals the children stopped having constipation!
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The children's stool were hard and they really had problem defecating according to the mother. I noticed that stool softeners had been prescribed on a number of occasions but the problem persisted. I asked whether the parents were also constipated for which the mother answered in the negative.
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| Fried sausages taken everyday for lunch and dinner |
The mother said that the children loved sausages. She fried them the sausages day and night. And if she did not do so the children themselves will fry and help themselves. They loved sausages and eat them like their staple food.
Now that piqued my curiosity. What is sausage? Sausage is defined as ground meat mixed with fat, salt and other seasoning,preservatives and sometimes fillers. You can actually make your own sausage if you know the recipe and have all the time in the world to do it.
Most people buy them ready-made from the supermarkets and I suppose they can be rather tasty given the right amount of salt and other seasoning and no wonder the children in question got hooked on this "easy food". But eating them everyday is a bit too much as being a processed food there could be too much of certain items such as pectin or thickening causing their stool to be hard.
To cut the story short, I told the pregnant mother to stop buying and serving the children with sausages for a few weeks and see the effect on their bowel and comfort of life.
True enough after a few weeks of no-sausage meals the children stopped having constipation!
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