Hi There, Im wondering if anyone can help, my 4.5 year old daughter has been on movicol for 3 years and has been constipated since birth and with holding for years I suspect.
She has just started reception and she has been having 4 - 5 accidents per day the last couple of days (we've sent her in pull ups until we can figure out whats going on) The school are ok so far and we have to meet with them tomorrow to formulate a plan of action. If anybody has been dealing with this long term with school age children, can you tell me what we can do for the best to help resolve the problem please, its so stressful and im really worried about the long term psychological and physical damage that's already been caused!
Things we have been trying over the last 3 weeks;
Toilet sits;
- She has only recently started sitting on the toilet to 'try' as she was terrified and hysterical if we asked her to. We are doing it after breakfast and after tea, however she just sits there and I don't think she's 'pushing' or 'trying' as such. She has managed to poo a bit a few times very hit and miss and its always in a pull up. How do I know if she is pushing or actually able to push and knows what im talking about!
- We are praising the trying and rewarding heavily for effort but she doesn't seem that motivated, is this because she just has no control and cant 'try'
- is this pattern of bits of poo 5 x a day always over flow, so she has no control and knowledge that it has happened? This is what I suspect.
The week before she started school we realised that she must be constipated again as she was having lots of little accidents, not knowing anything about them and didn't seem to know when she needed a poo, so we tried to clear her out with movicol which we thought had worked well, but I think she may be constipated again now 3 weeks later - is this possible?
Im wondering if she needs to add in another med to help her push or in your experience do you think when cleared out and on right maintenance dose of movicol this will right itself?
Thanks so much in advance!