I've posted on here several times about DS (8) wetting and soiling daily and I've had some brilliant advice which has really helped (more than the doctors have tbh).
We've now got to the stage where he's on 20ml senna each evening, 3 scoops of Optifibre a day and one sachet of Movicol each day, and that seems to have (fingers crossed) really helped his poos. He is no longer impacted/constipated, and he poos every morning. In the last two months he's only has three soiling accidents. Six months ago I couldn't ever have imagined writing that.
But I wonder if anyone has any experience of what happens with wees once the bowel is sorted. We were told that as the bowel was so full of poo it would have stretched and given very little room for the bladder, which was what was causing the wee accidents. Now the bowel is empty but the wee accidents have got a lot worse.
We weren't expecting an overnight improvement, but hoped that as the bowel gradually shrinks back to its normal size, and the bladder can gradually fill to the size it had supposed to, then the wee accidents would gradually decrease. He's always done two or three small wee accidents throughout the day, some just a dribble and some enough to show through his trousers. But now he's doing several big full wees every day, enough to soak through his trousers, and whatever he's sitting on.
Does anyone have any idea why he might be doing more wee accidents? He's been tested to rule out a UTI. We've measured how much wee he does in the toilet and its only around 50ml each time - I understand it should be about 300mls (age8+2 x 30 = 300ml). He's drinking nearly 2 litres of liquid a day, which was recommended to fill his bladder.
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Enuresis/encopresis - could do with some MN help :)
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iwouldgoouttonight · 21/07/2015 10:47
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