To take dds nappy to show the doctor

[ShesAnEasyWuffer]

DD (nearly 7 months) has been a bit constipated and passed a rather large, hard poo earlier this afternoon. She cried a lot and was obviously in pain. We're leaving for the doctors in about half an hour. Shall I take the nappy with me so the doctor is fully aware of what the poo was like? Do you think they would find this useful? I'm torn between trying to be helpful and not wanting to look like a weirdo (and a total pfb).

I'm not the best at explaining things sometimes, and one person's idea of a 'hard poo' is different to another's IYSWIM.

First foray into AIBU so please be kind. Here are lots of flowers

Aww raltheraffe you mean after starving and necking vile conconcoctions then pooing so much I passed food I hadn't even eaten yet, my bowels were still manky

I will never ever have another colonoscopy (they wrote 'satisfactory' on the bit about evacuation/clarity. Could do better then? )

Ah guinea pigs. Older boars often have slack muscles in that area and need "help" to evacuate stuck in poo. I have been told that I must manually massage his poos out, at least once a week, as mine is having this problem. Need to attempt it for the first time this week

Look up the Bristol Stool Chart. It's how medical professionals classify poo, and will allow you to accurately describe it.

Frogme this boy needed no help getting these beauties out . Normal sized 99% of the time, boulder pooh once a week. No idea why.

And they eat nothing but roughage .

70 sounds like the same thing. Mine has been having the boulder poos too but apparently it is uncomfortable leading up to it, so the manual evacuation is recommended...

Am I a bad guinea pig mother just to leave him to it?

And he gets the normal poos too.

it's to do with the soft ones that they normally eat again, clogging up. The normal ones get through ok

You say your child is nearly 7 months. Any chance they have been moved to Follow On milk? It's a recipe for serious constipation ...

Sorry op, taking over your thread here.

Bristol Stool Chart is fab. We use that for patients at work all the time. Have seen a chocolate alternative before too (maltesers- yorkie- mars bar- curly wurly- mousse- milkshake)..

raltheraffe I'm the nurse who gets to give the picolax and check the patients are 'clear'!

Ha! Love the guinea pig related derailment . I do like the squeaky little guys a lot.

Right, one prescription of lactulose (and a takeaway) later all is fine in the Wuffer household. However, I did decide to take the nappy with me as there was still the chance it would be useful, as a pp mentioned upthread.

Conversation with the most senior doctor in the practice went like this:

Me: "I did....errr....bring a nappy if you'd like to see for yourself...."
Him:
Me: "I thought it might....you know....help..."
Him: Ahem, well, uh....I don't think that will be necessary. But, thank you for trying to help
Me:

He's such a lovely guy, bless him.

No, notquite, no Follow On milk here. Just boob.

My experience in CR surgery was over 10 years ago but I can still remember the smell when assisting in surgery. The worst were the emergency procedures as there was no time to properly blast out the bowels first. The consultant I worked for was excellent, but I could never quite understand why he chose the speciality. I preferred orthopaedics.