Hi all. Am hoping someone can offer me some advice.
My 6 month old EBF DS has had problems pooing since he was born. He was born my emergency CS and had antibiotics without a couple of hours of being born. He had meningitus at three months old (thus more antibiotics) and a secondary infection which needed a second hospitalisation and more antibiotics.
He has never poo'd regurlarly. Without medication he would go every 4 days or so, and would clearly be in considerable pain (writhing, screaming, unable to sleep) which would get better as soon as he poo'd. His stomach was hugely bloated (I have some photos which still make me cry now when I think of how much pain he must have been in). He would literally scream and writhe constantly for two of three days at a time.
We took him to the GP many times only to be told he had colic (magic colic which was cured by pooing!) and that EBF babies should only poo once a week. Whilist I appreciate that some do, THIS baby clearly needs to go more often!
During his most recent hospitalisation the antibiotics gave him diarrhea. We spoke to a hospital doctor who suggestde that should he go back to not pooing he could be given suppositories. He came home and went straight back to his old self and a GP did finally give him suppositories. He instantly seemed better and was so much happier - No bloating, writhing or screaming in pain.
As we didn't want to have to give him suppositories every day the GP eventually agreed to give him lactulose which was then changed to movicol as he had awful side effects form the lactulose.
Over the last couple of weeks he's gradually got worse, and we also needed a repeat prescription so we went back to the GP again this morning. He basically told me that I'm being a hysterical mother, and that there's nothing wrong with him. He's dropped the dose to half a sachet once a day, even though we explained that this wasn't enough and didn't work. I'm worried now that he's going to go back to how he used to be and can't bear it.
His stools are almost always soft, he just can't get them out! I'm tired of being told that as his stools are soft there's nothing wrong, and feeling like I'm a useless mum who is worrying over nothing, but I can't bear fom him to be in pain.
The doctors keep telling me he'll get better when he's on solids, but he's only six months old! It'll be quite a while until he's off milk, and even then, solids could make it worse.
Sorry this is so long, but any advice would be most gratefully recieved. I feel really lost
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NoodleBugs · 24/11/2011 12:06
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