I think Miralax is causing my kid's stomach pain

[Anonymous]

DD is 6 and has been having stomaches for a few months. We go in 6 weeks ago, PA says it's constipation and tell us to use Miralax. Did it for a bit, it got better (in terms of her pooping more regularly), though she never did stop complaining about stomach pain. We'e thinking it looks like it's tied to certain foods. She decides to stop eating certain foods, including peanut butter, some cheeses, hummus, and a few others. After a few weeks, I stopped the miralax cause it didn't seem to be helping that much. She was doing lots of poop - sometimes four times a day of diarrhea, and was still having pain.

Fast forward to yesterday. Pain is continuing so we go back in and see the ped. She asks lots of questions and orders an X-ray to see if it's constipation. Was supposed to call back today but so far, hasn't. She says to continue the Miralax. Tonight, within five minutes of DD drinking maybe half of it, she is complaining that she is gonna throw up and her tummy hurts. She cries and won't eat dinner (first time that's happened). Otherwise, she had a great day, says she didn't have pain and was on the playground, etc. No issues. DH thinks it's drama but I don't think she's making it up.

Has anyone had an immediate reaction to Miralax like that? Maybe it wasn't the Miralax but it was very strange.

Up to now, she has always been a great eater and a great pooper.

[Anonymous]

Aaaaand she just woke up from a dead sleep to projectile vomit.

[Anonymous]

Constipation. What did the X-ray show?

[Anonymous]

Haven't heard yet

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aaaaand she just woke up from a dead sleep to projectile vomit.

I suppose the Miralax could have exacerbated her illness, but it sounds coincidental to me. Something is irritating her system, and now the irritation is worse or she has a stomach bug. The Miralax doesn't seem to be the cause of her problems, but it also doesn't sound like the solution. Take care of her for now and keep working at it.

[Anonymous]

Does she drink milk?

[Anonymous]

You can keep up the miralax and wait or, if you're not too skeeved out and your dd would tolerate it, you could give her an enema.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aaaaand she just woke up from a dead sleep to projectile vomit.

I suppose the Miralax could have exacerbated her illness, but it sounds coincidental to me. Something is irritating her system, and now the irritation is worse or she has a stomach bug. The Miralax doesn't seem to be the cause of her problems, but it also doesn't sound like the solution. Take care of her for now and keep working at it.

She's vomiting because she's full of poop.

[Anonymous]

I thinkI read somewhere recently that there is some controversy on the safety of miralax and young children. I can't find it now. It might be worth checking with your dr on update consensus on this med.

[Anonymous]

We drink Lactaid, but not because of this. That's just what Dh and I drink so she drinks it too.

[Anonymous]

There have been some scary recent stories about Miralax but I think those were behavior based, like their kids turned angry and irritable from it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thinkI read somewhere recently that there is some controversy on the safety of miralax and young children. I can't find it now. It might be worth checking with your dr on update consensus on this med.

This?
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/science/scrutiny-for-a-childhood-remedy.html?_r=1

[Anonymous]

It wasn't this particular article, but it was similar. The one I read talked more about parents saying their kids got angry after taking it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thinkI read somewhere recently that there is some controversy on the safety of miralax and young children. I can't find it now. It might be worth checking with your dr on update consensus on this med.

This?
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/science/scrutiny-for-a-childhood-remedy.html?_r=1

I was just about to say the same thing!

[Anonymous]

It gave my kid the runs. I would not use it. I thought it was horrible.