Okay - long story in short. DS (aged 7) is autistic and one of his more difficult behaviours is to withhold his poo (and I am aware many NT children do the same). Generally we manage as I have various strategies in place to ensure he does poo most days.
Sooo - this week for the first time ever we had a four day gap and for the past two nights he had been sobbing and vomiting due to constipation.
I rang the out of hours service and took DS to see a doctor last night who prescribed Movicol and Glycerine Suppositories. In the doctor's words " you just wet the end and insert them".
Now as a nurse and midwife I am an old hand at inserting Glycerine suppositories but have to say I felt a bit weird about doing this for DS (it worked a treat btw). In my past experience this was done by a nurse or a doctor if a child was constipated. Is it now the norm for parents to be asked to insert them and AIBU in feeling odd about it?
Or has it always been the case that parents were asked to do this? Have I just been unobservant?
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TheJollyPirate · 16/07/2010 12:57
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