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Hello doctor ! hope you are fine my son having an age of two and a half years having a problem of constipation after every week. and thus when he passes the stool its size is big and hard .we are giving him freash milk of cow and buffalo?what we do?
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Milk: Milk is constipating. Please have our son evaluated by a children's medical specialist, a Pediatrician. His diet may be doing him harm, but there may be other causes. See a Pediatrician and have him properly evaluated. Stop trying to do this on your own. Get help.
Answered 11/13/2020
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