Hi,
I've posted several times about my DS aged 7 and his constipation, so i won't give you another long history.
To cut a long story short, we saw a paediatric gastroenterologist privately.
He could not feel any impaction in his abdomen, but said there may be some bits and suggested disimpaction. As DS is at school, he suggested doing it over several weekends- increasing from his usual 2 sachets to 3 on a friday, to 4 on a saturday. Has anyone done this?
Having done a bit of reading about movicol i am now wondering if instead of doing this, we should just be gradually increasing his dose by half a sachet every couple of days instead? Especially as no doctor has actually felt impaction, its more that he is in pain going to the loo and never feels emptied. Could the problem be that the movicol dose is too low?
FWIW (and sorry for too much info) he goes to the loo morning and evening and it has the consistency of a slushy drink and he is in a lot of pain doing it. Sometimes its pellets. He never soils.
(Obviously there is a prob causing the consitipation to start with- but we will deal with that once his pain from all this is better)
Thanks for any advice
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Movicol advice-disimpaction over several weekends or just increase the dose?
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krisskross · 08/12/2014 13:01
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