Liners for children's pants

[Blue_planet]

My 5 year old boy is in the process of getting more comfortable at home doing poos on the toilet. And 8/10 times it is on the toilet. However, at school in a busy environment of 60 children and toilets away from classroom most of the time if he needs a poo at school he does it in his pants. The school have asked if he could wear some sort of liner in his pants to catch the poo on so it can be easily removed and make changing easier and not take as long. Has anyone come across any such liners. They would need to stick in place as he does go to the toilet to do wees fine so would be pulling his pants up and down for that. I don' t want anything too bulky, just a thin removeanle insert/liner.

[SallyandPaul]

The only thing that i found were tena lights,they are very thin and absorbent

[Blue_planet in reply to SallyandPaul]

Thank you. I will have along at those.

[Blue_planet in reply to SallyandPaul]

Has your child worn them?

[SallyandPaul in reply to Blue_planet]

Yes she has for many years. They arent perfect and dont catch it all but i never found anything better unless you use a proper pullup. For a year now she has not used them because she uses an irrigation system that flushes out the poo. She is 12 now and uses this most days, it has reduced the accidents hugely but has not solved the issues that have been ongoing since she was three!!

[StellaA]

Are you talking about some light soiling or a full bowel movement in his pants?

If it's the later I don't know if a panty liner like the tenas would do much, you used to get liners for cloth nappies that where for stopping poo from sticking inside the fabric, but you had to pin them in place.

If it's just to make changes easier would pullups not be an option?

[Blue_planet]

I don't really want to go back to pull ups as I think using them for too long was the start of all the problems really. Plus he is continent of urine day and night and is doing quite well with pooing on toilet at home. The bowel movements he does in pants are sometimes just a bit of soiling and sometimes a little bigger but nothing too big. So a panty liner may be enough to not have to change his whole pants every time ( which involves removing trousers and shoes at school to do it) . Thank you for the advice. Anything is helpful

[eiluj68]

We used to use a product called Dry Like Me which was a liner made specifically for children. However they stopped being available at least a year ago, so we had to look for an alternative as our son has the same issue. We discovered that ALDI’s sell a women’s panty liner brand called Lunex and this works perfectly. It’s also much much cheaper! The liners come in different lengths and we find that the longer length fits best. However it’s not always easy to find that size so we have been known to use 2 overlapping standard size liners sometimes. Sainsbury’s also sell their own brand of long liners which work, though they don’t curve in the middle as much as the ALDI ones so the fit isn’t perfect, but we have used them successfully.

[Littlemunch]

I remembered seeing something like a pad in asda a long time ago. Just did a quick search and found these "Dry Like Me toilet training pads"

[eiluj68 in reply to Littlemunch]

Yes we used to use those but they’re discontinued. Found Aldi’s lunex liners work equally good for a fraction of the price 🙂

[Littlemunch in reply to eiluj68]

That's a shame

[Mck3]

We use the tena men's shields the level 0 ones and just put them at the back of his pants, fit well

[Roxyrox]

We use tenna minis as not too bulky, but will try the Aldi ones thanks for tip ! X

[KAW111]

I have been using a Boots version of Tena pads for my son as he refuses a pull up, as we reduce from disimpaction. However the local Bladder and Bowel Service has now offered some on prescription so might be worth asking school nurse / gp to refer? Just waiting for some samples to arrive in the post so I can't say specifically what they are yet.

[Gooner2016]

We’re in exactly the same position and my boy is the same age. Let me know if you have tried any of the recommendations below and if anything helps?