Day 6 disimpaction

[Hay37]

Hi, so my daughter has been poooing thick watery poo if that makes sense. What should the desired outcome be?

[Yaleamanda]

You need to work upto the maximum dose for their age until you reach watery stools with no lumps consistently for a few days before you start reducing the doses down extremely slowly ie one dose every few days until you reach a suitable maintenance dose to remain on.

[Hay37 in reply to Yaleamanda]

on the Eric website it says if your child had the maximum does then do have the maximum maintenance dose which would be 4 for her age. What shall I do? So sorry for all the questions?

[Yaleamanda in reply to Hay37]

I would stick to working upto the maximum dose for their age until you reach watery stools with no lumps consistently for a few days before you start reducing the doses down extremely slowly ie one dose every few days until you reach a suitable maintenance dose to remain on.

[Beccaell in reply to Hay37]

when I spoke to the Eric advisor she said you can go straight to max maintenance dose after you reach rusty tea stage. No need to slowly reduce doses. There is a very helpful podcast on disimpaction on the Eric website - suggest you listen to it if you haven’t already.

[Yaleamanda in reply to Beccaell]

If you reduce too quickly you run the risk of not knowing what the true maintenance dose should, plus the bowel will just go into spasm. Slowly reducing is by far the best method.

[Beccaell in reply to Yaleamanda]

Eric medical experts say differently. I recommend you have a chat with them about it.

[Yaleamanda in reply to Beccaell]

I have thanks. Why so rude?? Have a nice day!

[Beccaell in reply to Yaleamanda]

Not at all meaning to be rude so please don’t get the wrong idea. Only repeating medical advice we were given. Have a great day too. X

[Yaleamanda in reply to Beccaell]

Sorry, just having a crappy day, pardon the pun.

[Beccaell in reply to Yaleamanda]

No worries. It’s a stressful topic for sure. Hope you are ok. X

[Yaleamanda in reply to Beccaell]

Yeah I am OK x

[Beccaell]

Keep going - you need to reach the stage where it looks like rusty water with no lumps. You’ll know when you see it as it looks very different. We reached that stage on day #10 with our 5 year old.