constipated

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"You could run into the extremes of eating too much, where if you're not drinking enough water to hydrate and exceed the amount of soluble and insoluble fiber, you can get constipated," Lee said.

From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2026

When Leonidas was just a month old, he was fussy and often constipated.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

Here are some of the ways to prevent a child from becoming constipated:

From BBC • Sep. 3, 2025

Lou is stuck and emotionally constipated, and needs to act and basically can’t, won’t, whatever.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2024

After that he was constipated for seventeen months.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols