7 year old on day 12 of withholding

[K8tet1]

Hiya.

This is my first post and I'm so glad I found this site earlier today. My 7 year old son is on day 12 of not being able to go for a poo. I'm 90% that he is withholding because he is so scared of the pain, he has just told me he hates the toilet, we saw the Dr's on Friday and have gone from 2,3,4 and now 5 sachets of movicol. I'm at a loss of what to do and where to turn, I was on the phone to 111 at 6am today who advised to go to A&E which we did, their advice was carry on with movicol. He is now what I think is called soiling we have very wet poo leaking so I'm guessing we are now getting somewhere. He is still eating but not normal quantities and I've been constantly nagging him to drunk which he is doing. Today he has missed school because of the discomfort and I imagine will be off again tomorrow.

Anyone have any advice or anything I'm just at my wits end 😢

[Luella19]

Bless you how awful for you both. You may need to up the movicol dose even more. Phone Eric tomorrow for advise on dosage. Keep him off school if you can. You need to get to the stage where his poo will be softened and he can no longer withhold, sounds cruel but it needs to come out as you know.

Eric will advise on how long to keep up high dose of movicol. Usually until you get gravy consistency then start to slowly lower dose. A maintenance dose is required after to keep everything soft and try and get him to know that pooing won’t hurt. All of this is easier said than done when dealing with a 7 year old. My daughter is 7!

Try giving him ice lollies, melon, jelly, anything with lots of fluid.

Sudocrem on his bum as may get sore. Hot baths, tummy rubs.

You are not alone, so many people on this forum will indeed what you are going through x

[fuzzalert]

You poor thing, your poor child!

Sounds like he’s at the solid blocked stage and what needs doing is “disimapction”

As previous messenger said seek advice about the amount of sachets to go up to as it differs between children but my son was 7 last Christmas and even though he was going every day an x ray showed his whole colon was blocked Think we got up to 10 sachets/day before thing eased off but because he was under urology consultant for overactive bladder he wanted to get constipation issue sorted and for initial disimpaction he recommended mini child size suppositories. Again speak to GP or we found our pharmacist very helpful advising which size but they’re fine to use as a one off and we used baby oil and put our son on his side with knees up gave him an electronic device for distraction. It didn’t hurt him and things started working within 5-10mins

And yes put sudocrem on afterwards!

It maybe worth consodereing keeping him off for a day or two whilst you carry out this process

Hope that helps a bit?!!

Cheer, Amy