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Smart help for your child's constipation

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Smart help for your child's constipation

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Preventing and treating constipation is important, even for kids. In this Health Smarts video, pediatrician Dr. Tanya Remer Altmann shares her favorite natural laxatives for kids, starting with sweet relief from plums, cherries, and grapes.

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