How to give 2 yr old miralax

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Anonymous wrote:Bitch we are talking about how to get a kid to drink miralax.

Constipation causes a lot of problems. Reflux happens to many "healthy" children.

A child visiting a nephrologist is not healthy, sweet pea.

A child who needs Miralax has a medical problem too. Chronic constipation is a real medical issue.

A 3yo holding poop because of a power struggle doesn't have a medical problem. There's no need to flush your child with Gatorade for such reason.

My older child held his poop, not because of a power struggle, but because he would forget to go to the bathroom when he needed to. It resulted in hard poop. Once you have hard poop in the lower part of your colon, it's difficult to pass, even if the poop in the upper part is soft. Then it piles up and hardens. My ped suggested a series of steps, which included a suppository, followed by Miralax. After the constipation is resolved, you continue with high fiber foods.

Separate from that, my ped said that some kids just have harder poops than others, despite what they eat. My daughter eats the healthiest of all my kids (TONS of fruit and veggies, and she drinks a lot of water), yet she's the most constipated of them all.

[Anonymous]

We have a kid who had chronic constipation/impaction issues for over two years. We took her to a specialist who said the problem is generally functional, not medical. I.e., the kid doesn't go poop for whatever reason, the poop gets harder and more painful to pass, and then doesn't want to poop even more. It's a vicious cycle that needs to be broken by behavior as much as anything else. The problem is more prevalent in girls. The PP who says there must be a medical problem is full of crap (pun absolutely intended).

As for Miralax, we had mixed results, but we took to mixing into chocolate pudding at one point (but since dairy can be constipating, we didn't do it often). We are down now to having benefiber in water in the morning with an extended time on the potty after breakfast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a kid who had chronic constipation/impaction issues for over two years. We took her to a specialist who said the problem is generally functional, not medical. I.e., the kid doesn't go poop for whatever reason, the poop gets harder and more painful to pass, and then doesn't want to poop even more. It's a vicious cycle that needs to be broken by behavior as much as anything else. The problem is more prevalent in girls. The PP who says there must be a medical problem is full of crap (pun absolutely intended).

As for Miralax, we had mixed results, but we took to mixing into chocolate pudding at one point (but since dairy can be constipating, we didn't do it often). We are down now to having benefiber in water in the morning with an extended time on the potty after breakfast.

My dd seems to have a similar issue. We've been to see the ped. Did your dd also have blood in her poop or drops of it after she pooped?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a kid who had chronic constipation/impaction issues for over two years. We took her to a specialist who said the problem is generally functional, not medical. I.e., the kid doesn't go poop for whatever reason, the poop gets harder and more painful to pass, and then doesn't want to poop even more. It's a vicious cycle that needs to be broken by behavior as much as anything else. The problem is more prevalent in girls. The PP who says there must be a medical problem is full of crap (pun absolutely intended).

As for Miralax, we had mixed results, but we took to mixing into chocolate pudding at one point (but since dairy can be constipating, we didn't do it often). We are down now to having benefiber in water in the morning with an extended time on the potty after breakfast.

I'm the full of crap poster.

I didn't mean that there's a medical cause, but constipation is a problem, one that falls under the jurisdiction of medical professionals. The fact that you were willing to take your child to a specialist, and give them medication, and refer to it as an "issue" makes me think that you also think it was a problem. My use of the term medical problem was in response to the Gatoridiot who was essentially saying "but we're talking about kids with no issues", no we're talking about kids with a specific issue that, regardless of it's cause (and I agree it can totally be functional in origin) now needs to be treated medically.

[Anonymous]

Our 2 yr old has been on miralax for a while. He gets 1 tsp in his morning milk cup and he drinks it all right up. I really don't think it matters what time of day you give it as long as you are consistent.