POO problems in 7 year old

[manechangingregular]

Not sure where to put this so will copy and paste into health as well.

My 7 year year old boy seems to have some sort of problem with his poo.
He was very late to be clean(about 4) and has always be one to havve accidents-when he was in reception he used to have poo accidents on the way home or on play dates after school.

Now he regularly has dirty underpants-just a small skid mark but really grotty. He will come and stand next to me and he will stink and i will make him go to the bathroom and change his pants and he'll have not wiped his bum or something.

I was woken this morning by him calling from the bathroom. he'd pooed in his pj's-not overnight, he'd come downstairs to watch tv and hadn't been able to get to the loo in time. tmi-but some it was quite loose so understandable but there was a lso a large lump of proper poo and there was no way that would have just come out! he must have left it until the last possible minute .

I don't know what to do. End of tether reached.

I don't want him to end up being ' the smelly boy' at school or 'that bloke in the office who stinks'.

What now? out of ideas.

ha!!! made a mistake with my name!!!

anyone?
i do realise my child's shit isn't the most riveting of subjects but siurely someone must have an opinion?

my op should say 'not just a small skid mark!'

Have you taken him to the gp. Get him checked for being constipated. Sometimes the blockage is high and the soft stuff oozes round it. He may not know that he's leaking it and he may have lost bowel control in which case it's not his fault. My dd has been like this and is on long-term Movicol. Look up encopresis. There are other threads about this condition.