Childhood constipation

[OkyDoke]

Hello all,

Just to say not asking for medical advice but wanting a bit of a chat about constipation in children. We are having a lot of urinary accidents with our 4 year old and ERIC advised to keep a poo diary to see if she's constipated. I've attached it, are there any experts here who would suggest going to GP about this?

Thanks! Sorry for the early morning poo chat!

Have you looked at the section on ERIC about constipation? It suggests seeing your GP and take the diary with you. It's worth a chat to get the initial constipated addressed. Ideally you're looking for type 4 stool.

My eldest had trouble being dry at night but it turns out he was constipated. He became dry once the constipation was sorted after we saw the GP.

‘Movicol mummies’ is a great Facebook group about childhood constipation if you arent already a member

@ghostbusters @clinellwipe thanks so much for your replies, do you both think it's worth going to the GP and that the above could be constipation? She never seems to do a 'normal' poo, it's either side!

I think it's worth speaking to the GP about it as it sounds like it's probably having a knock on effect on her continence/having accidents.
Has she been fully toilet trained and dry during the day, or are these new pee accidents?

@ghostbusters thanks very much, I'll get on that with the GP tomorrow, just wanted someone else to look at it and say, yes that could be constipation!

It's been ongoing urine accidents pretty much 2 or 3 times a day since we potty trained over a year ago. This is the first time someone has mentioned constipation, and her pattern doesn't look like constipation to me so I hasn't considered it. But looking at it now, it's not normal. But she's going to school in September so I want her to be more reliably day dry for that. I have to say, she is generally fine til about 2/3pm and starts having accidents in the afternoon/evening. She rarely needs a clothes change at nursery. But then after nursery there are floods as well as smaller accidents (my poor sofa!)