Hya I'm new to the site. My nearly 7 year old daughter has never been the best with her bowls. She has now started holding her poo in (we r on day 8 today) scared as it will hurt .we tried to reasure her and she has prunes ,fresh juice lactlose , things with fibre in and fibregell sachet. Still nothing .u can see her pottering around holding it. I'm thinkn now will have to see a dr. It's all mental with her .
Any advice would b greatful
Hi did you go to the specialist for medications? My hear goes to you at this difficult time. My specialist say lactulose is not effective for constipation my daughter of 5 years old was prescribed picosulphate and dulcoease. However as doctor say kids must have routine of sitting in toilet 2ce a day at least x 10 minutes and should not rely on medicine. I need to enforce this early morning n evening with a timer. Happy to link with you
My son is 6 he sometimes soils and leaks a bit of wee, our specialist told us he’s supposed to sit on the toilet 4 times a day, 20 mins after food and do it for a minute for every year of their life so he does 6 mins we have Alexa so I set her for our timer. He’s at school so he does it morning and night as Its out of my control while he’s at school. We have also been told to get him to blow up a balloon as that action helps the poo out. He never tells me he needs to go but as long as I make him sit on the toilet twice a day he usually does have a poo on 1 of these occasions most days. He’s also on 2 sachets of movicol each day. Hope things get better for you all. Xx
Thanks I ll need to take alexa too need to be more disciplined with sitting sessions
Hya yes was giving that a while ago . Goin to make appointment see dr can't go on like this every week it's awful.
You could try showing her my short blog which tells my own story in simple language. It is designed to discourage withholding, and emphasises that her poo will not disappear if she withholds it and will eventually come out in her pants.
theboywhopooedhispants.blog...
Thank you I will do we r goin hospital soon thanks will take a look
Just read it thank u I will show her later thanks for the reply
Hi there I’ve just read your post and I can’t help but feel for you as I’m going through something similar but my daughter doesn’t hold it in, I think you need to go to G.p especially as it’s day 8 as she may now be impacted which is what my daughter has andthe longer you leave this the worse it becomes, you could try movicol sachets and senna but definitely get to g.p first, hope this helps and hope things improve
Aww thank u we have been the hospital they gave her a pessiry but still held it in so had an enemena. Still went over hour holding till eventually she exploded. So sad she has movicol av to monitor it and goin Drs in 5 days prob get referred x
We had the same issue with our now 3 year old.
The only thing that works sure shot is castor oil two tspn. But pls check on the bottle if it is the kind to be taken internally.
She now goes once in two to three days...big change from once a week to 10 days.
But I dont let her go past day 3 now.
Castor oil tastes terrible so I have to give it to her with a medicine syringe and reward her with a sweet or something.
Also try flaxseed oil, as that can be given regularly, once in two days. Castor oil maybe once in two weeks only.
Aww thank u we have been the hospital they gave her a pessiry but still held it in so had an enemena. Still went over hour holding till eventually she exploded. So sad she has movicol av to monitor it and goin Drs in 5 days prob get referred x
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