3 year old cant poop
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Anonymous
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Dr said miralax. Its not working. What worked for you? Diet foods. Please help!
He is potty training now too so doesn’t help that he purposely holds poop for 4-5 days. |
Anonymous
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BTDT - went on for 6 months! Miralax and water. No more milk, which makes poops hard. The longer it goes on, the more they get used to poops being painful and refuse to go and it compacts and hurts more and spirals.
Miralax, water, maybe those laxative chocolates. Don't let him develop holding habit. I'd carry daughter outside around the block while she cried but refused to go. Avoid at all costs getting to that stage. |
Anonymous
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Warm pear juice — if possible, first thing in the morning.
Will he eat lettuce? Oatmeal? Prunes or prune juice? I would probably check with a doctor before doing this, but some sugar free candies are labeled as having “a laxative effect”. I wouldn’t want him to link not pooping with getting candy, but maybe it could be a weekly treat? |
Anonymous
Thank you! Did you replace milk with an alternative? He loves milk but Im stopping it now! |
Anonymous
Thank you. Ill try pear juice. He wont drink apple or prune juice. |
Anonymous
| What about those suppositories? |
Anonymous
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More miralax and water. 4-5 days is a full blown crisis. You need more miralax to keep things soft and make it impossible to hold for that long until you get the behavior resolved.
How much miralax are you doing now? |
Anonymous
| Is he constipated or withholding? Different animals |
Anonymous
| FWIW, my DD wouldn't potty train and withheld until she was almost four. Much later we found out she was autistic and had megacolon and fecalomas. I started to do the research and found out this is very common with autistic kids. I mention it only because I had to figure it out after that fact and could have helped my DD had I known - our pediatrician was worthless. This was back when testing was not as good as it is today. DD is what we then called Aspergers now Autism 1 |
Anonymous
| Ex-lax chocolate squares worked better than Miralax for my kid. |
Anonymous
Crying to poop! Straining constipated.was just doing a half cap of Miralax. |
Anonymous
ExLax has Senna, which causes the muscles to contract. It will flush things out but is changing the functionality of the gut muscles over time. Miralax is just a bulk osmotic softener, nothing more. It holds water in the stool and keeps it soft, like Metamucil or Benefiber. If you use enough, the poop can't get to a hard stage -- but if the colon is distended, yiou bneed adult-sized doses for adult-sized poops. It is volume based. |
Anonymous
| ^^sorry, "you need" |
Anonymous
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Have you tried different brands of prune juice? I’ve had some that were sweet and tasty but recently DH bought one that was not. Unfortunately I can’t remember which brands were the good ones. If you add sugar to it, that could help. And maybe you can bake cookies with prunes and/or prune juice, like how vegans use apple sauce as a binder?
He might be too old for this, but using a rectal thermometer or Frida Windi Gas Passer helps constipated babies. |
Anonymous
| This is a psychology problem, not a constipation problem. |