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[quote=Anonymous]Our nutritionist asked us to keep a food journal. While natural fiber can be very useful she also noted that it can bulk up inside the body and be just as impossible to pass. So she said to not only look at the type of fiber being eaten but the additional foods on the menu. In our case even just a few carbs - bread, bagels etc made any type of natural fiber not work. So we had to work on the fiber source and the diet for our DS. For him bananas, cheese, bagels and any type of bread bound him up miserably, as did potatoes, rice etc. For a while pureed prunes in oatmeal worked well for him as long as we balanced the rest of his diet accordingly. Then oatmeal seemed to bother him. So these days he likes a fresh fruit something with no bananas - in the summer this is easy with all of the fruit available. Some crackers don't seem to bind him up so we use that instead of bread for "sandwiches" for lunch. When things get bad we do use Miralax - especially when traveling since its harder to get the right balance for him. We did not find that any of the "fiber bars" worked as well as trying to identify what was causing the lack of movement in his bowels. [/quote]

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