How long after a tummy bug to hold off on movicol? - ERIC

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How long after a tummy bug to hold off on movicol?

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My child has a mild tummy bug of some kind - runny stools (not a movicol thing, a "toddlers lick everything and put it in their mouth" thing!). I've stopped her movicol but how long after its over do I wait to out her back on her maintaining dose? Thanks.

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