Bowel advise needed

[Clairelongden]

My son is two and I'm really struggling to help him he goes 8 to 12 days without opening just odd overflow smear.he has 10mg lactalose a day and up to 4 sachets of fibregel.he now prescribed 2.5 of sodium picosulfate but still doesn't go when he hadn't been for 10 days gave supposotory two days in a row that didn't take effect and doctor surprised his stomach felt ok he opened next day .it's not nice seeing him get on his kneesuncomfortable .he loves stew pears soft figs prunes he has healthiest diet I know just problem he doesn't like water or pop just milk so have to use syringe to pretend it's medicine .what more can I do please ideas?

[Yaleamanda]

Lactulose is pretty ineffective, try switching to movicol and look into disimpacting him. Feeling for an impaction is very unreliable.

[Clairelongden in reply to Yaleamanda]

Thank you i will ask for his prescription to be altered as it really isn't working

[Aethawk]

We found movicol and lactulose did not work for us as when disimpaction. what my grandson needed was enemas and then once clear, we used picosulphate daily to keep the bowel muscles moving. Using movicol orlactulose type meds just made it run out of him as liquid.

[MummyRose92 in reply to Aethawk]

How was he with the enema. My son is nearly 3 and I just can't get 8 sachets a day of movicol in him. No matter how hard I try. I think he needs an enema. Only up to 6 sachets but its all watery poo coming out. Gp just said stick with it. Get the movicol in him. It's just not that easy. Hope your grandson is well x