6 year old's pooh question

[mine24]

My 6 year old ds is a fit healthy boy. Hardly ever ill, growing well etc. BUT, every day when he gets home from school, he does 3-4 very loose / diarreah poohs. These are usually accomponied by lots of flatulance! Any ideas, should i be worried?

is he eating something at school that could be causing it?

Maybe he's holding it in until he gets home ... this could be causing the irritability in his bowels ??

Hello thisisyesterday. He has a packed lunch so i don't think it's diet related.
Madamesin, i wondered about the holding in thing. Could that cause this do you think?

Definitely holding it in! DS1 used to do the same....

Thought it could be. He just refuses to go at school! Could it do any harm do you think?

It's not that whatever is in packed lunch is not refridgerated and would have gone a bit off..Surely not.

Lots of bugs at this time of the year. Has he been fighting off something in his tummy perhaps?
Or something more like irritable bowel?

I know where I would rather go to the toilet and used always try to hold it for home.

Sorry, am so slow!

Better out than in. I heard in some schools they can't go to toilet when they need to. What's his situation?

Apparently he has to wait for set times too. Going to the toilet means going through another class room so very off putting i should imagine. The positive thing is he has an incredible bladder capacity! Wees for 3 whole minutes after school.
Apart from the pooh, he is well in every other way - plenty of energy, no tummy ache etc.

No wonder. And so if he's really desperate or even just needs the toilet he'd have to go through another class and everyone would stare.

These rules seem very tough on tummies and bums. But, I suppose there would be so many who disrupt and just try it on and wander around school unattended.

I don't know how some men can manage that Austin Powers just out of the freezer extended wee thing. Amazing, but surely not good for you!

My son's poo has been like that since he was 3 or 4 (now 7). The doctor said they only get concerned if the child isn't thriving which he is.

Time to add this

Stools vary enormously - what is normal for one person is not for another, in quality and quantity.

(Have spent last 3 weeks giving dd2 enemas)

hehe!

A Paed gave me that!

Er, I did mean paediatrician, not any other kind of paed!

DD2's last "evacuation" is not on the chart

bit of a high jack but how is your DD meltedmarsbars ??

My DS (6) always holds it til he gets home. If he has to do anything else urgent before visiting the loo, like randomly whack a tennis ball or something, then the flatulence starts.......I tend to vacate the area

PUMBA - the last one worked! Boy, what a mess! The poor nurse had to do a bit of - shall we call it "manual labour"? There's no way dd2 could have cleared it on her own.

I'm not sure if I just have to wait and see now or whether I need to get my blue rubber gloves on for another investigation

(Sorry about hijack mine24)