How long should a dissipation take ?

[Anna908]

My daughter that is 5 is extremely impacted and i was wondering how long the process would take. I have heard from a friend that it only took a day for her child to be done but i also heard from a different friend that it took a week.

Also tmi warning how much poop would there be because she is not potty trained as i want to know if she could go to per school or not.

[Yippieyay81]

Hi! I think it really depends on how bad the backup of poo is tbh. I was worried when we hadn’t had a lot of action at day 7 of disimpaction as I had read & been told by gp that she would probably be disimpacted after a week. It ended up taking us 14 days with my 3 year old with Senna added on day 10. Maybe it might be worth a trip to the gp?

[Anna908 in reply to Yippieyay81]

Thanks, She is very backed up( doctor said that she looked just like the one on the right pic link infomediasolutions.medicali... ) and we are on day 4 of the dissimpaction and nothing has come out of her yet.

[Yippieyay81 in reply to Anna908]

Yes I think we got to day 5 before things really started if you know what I mean!

[Anna908 in reply to Yippieyay81]

Yea i do. But sadly she has not gone yet.

[Yippieyay81 in reply to Anna908]

Poor thing...very distressing for you both Fingers crossed you get results today 🤞🤞🤞

[Anna908 in reply to Yippieyay81]

She still did not go yet I

I booked a trip to the gp, we are going two days and if she dose not poop until we go it will be 6 weeks since she had last gone poop. I am worried because once i was constipated for 3 weeks and when i went it hurt so much,I cant think of the pain that she has to go thru. No wonder she was holding it in.

[jess8873]

For my 12 year old daughter that was severely impacted it took about 2 weeks. The first week and a bit was nothing but one day everything came out in one sitting. My daughter was in bad pain as it had been 4-5 weeks since she had last went. She got a fissure because the first piece was 3.5 inch's wide. Also she filled the toilet with poop so i would watch out if it all comes out in one sitting.

[Anna908 in reply to jess8873]

Thanks and i hope my daughter dose not fill the toilet up with poop : )