My first born had terrible diarrhoea from birth which we were always told was due to my breast milk (we now know the same milk didn?t affect all the younger siblings).
Then it developed into toddler diarrhoea so by age 3 he was passing 10 or more loose stools a day which we were told was due to a high fruit, low fat diet and he would grow out of (again we now feel we were being fobbed off and think that it was not actually a low fat diet as he drank huge quantities of full fat cows milk and his siblings who had the same diet but with less cows milk by choice were unaffected).
At age 6 my DS was eventually diagnosed with faecal impaction without us ever having been aware that the bowel problems had changed from diarrhoea to constipation as there were never any signs of straining and the faecal impaction caused overflow diarrhoea. He has been on movicol since then and the impaction has cleared but is still left with no appetite and poor growth.
Has anyone else ever experienced this supposed change from diarrhoea to impaction either as a health care professional or with one of their children? We asked our paediatricians if they have come across it before and they said not but have never seemed concerned in finding a cause. Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas for tests we might request? Just want to try to be sure nothing is being missed.