Experiences with

Cosmocol

Back on maintenance dose of cosmocol for 3 days so far. He's been getting nauseous in a morning when he wakes up and his tummy is making lots of noises. Just worried, is this normal?

Can cosmocol cause high temperatures? We're keeping an eye on it for now and if gets higher will seek medical help but has this happened to anyone else?

I take cosmocol every day (one sachet lasts me all day with the final drink from it before bed.) I used to have lots of wind but that seems to have shut down. I normally go to the toilet when I get up, it`s always soft due to the cosmocol but generally ends with a blast.

My daughter has suffered since she was 4, she currently takes cosmocol and we are on day 2, she is off school as I can never send her when she is like this, I'm just wondering can I also give her a dose of lactulose as well as the cosmocol, to try and help it a long, thanks

My 3yo son is on Day 11 of a disimpaction regime (using CosmoCol/Laxido macrogols and Senna as a stimulant alongside) and although we're making progress (poos are type 6 with bits of his undigested food in), we're still nowhere near rusty coloured water it seems.

So, my son (4 y/o) has been on a daily dose of Cosmocol (1x sachet) for around 2 - 3 years now. When I first spoke with GP (2021) they got him on Cosmocol and it seemed to help with soiling.

Up until a week or so ago she was off Cosmocol and passing a stool everyday. Now here we are…full blown relapse :(

I have been taking Cosmocol for quite some time while I wait for my inguinal hernia to be fixed so as to keep things moving around the hernia so maybe that is helping to make the poo more watery but I`m frightened to stop taking it incase I can`t get the poo past the hernia.

In the meantime I continue with docuease to help the IBSC, which I can take much easier than cosmocol. 🤞 🙏

I realised I needed less and less of the docusate/cosmocol and hardly any now. I try to keep with the low fodmap diet but not totally.

She point blank refused any mivicol or cosmocol, not even the flavoured ones so we were told to try lactulose. But even then we can only get about 15ml in her a day because she likes water.

We managed to wean him off Senna (started to give him tummy cramps) and have stayed on a maintenance dose of 3 Cosmocol which produce stool type 4/5 once or twice per day. He does a toilet sit regularly 20-30 mins after every meal.

However I never get diarrhoea - indeed I’m prone to constipation and therefor have a half sachet cosmocol one day and one tab docusate the next, third day nil to keep me moving. SIBO is typically with diarrhoea.

I have been drinking more water and that helps but just wondering is there something that doesn`t create the very loose stools. I have an inguinal hernia so need to keep things flowing till it gets fixed.

I have been to the doctors who subscribed cosmocol....since starting taking it. The first night within 1 hour sneezing started and I must have sneezed 50 times that evening each one producing snot! Then eyes streaming.

Hi, my 6 year old son has been on Cosmocol and Senna coming up to 2 years. He has 2 daily Cosmocol sachets but for the past month has been having lots of overflow accidents.

Domperidone did help (half tab not every day) but GE said not to take it as advice re impact on heart (my heart is fine , I’m 77 F. ) So it’s cosmocol (prefer half measure) , or docusate, or mebeverine. These do work but I still have awful pain under ribs (nurse said it’s bloating).

This led to one week with no cosmocol at all, which seemed fine initially but yesterday she’s had a day where the poo was tiny, she seemed like she was witholding and she now seems reluctant to use the toilet. Do I need to go back to disimpaction or maintenance doses from this point forward?

We disimpacted her successfully at the time using cosmocol (it took 11 days in total until we reached rusty water stage). We went to the highest maintenance dose. (4 sachets in line with Eric guidance) and then reduced down to 2 doses and then 1 dose over the course of 3 months.

Including a barium swallow( transit study related I guess) As I normally take senna, cosmocol& use suppositories and have to subsequently douche daily, sometimes x 2 times daily to empty and clear my dysfunctional bowel- hence tests.( I have the almost constant urge to’go’) could be neuro muscular