2.3 year old DD is constantly constipated

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DD has been having problems pooing for months now. It takes her ages to go and involves tears, cries of it hurts mummy and occasionally there's blood when wiping.
We've tried eliminating dairy but that didn't help. She drinks a great deal and wees a lot but I don't know what to do about the pooing problem.
I am making a drs appointment for this week but I wanted to get other opinions as well

gp good idea but push for hospital consult with paediatric gastroenterologist. also try liqid paraffin. meant to be great for slow transit and constipation.

Poor thing :( What's her diet like?

Mine has had the same. I gave prescribed lactulose when really bad, but now that she's potty training it's much better. The trick with us seemed to be not letting her "hold on" for more than 12-18 hours because it just made it worse. A lot of it was mental. But I agree that a GP visit is a good idea.

Her diet is relatively healthy. Mainly home cooked food although occasionally fish fingers if we are late home. She eats fruit like its going out of fashion, has a small sweet (milkybar) or something most days. Drinks a lot of milk. We tried soya milk but it didn't change the poo problem.

She's fully toilet trained which has helped a bit but she will switch between the potty and toilet when she's trying to poo and it doesn't make any difference.

Had the same problem with DS2 for about the last 6 months. It started after he was potty trained (with no problems going for a poo) but one day he went on the toilet and it freaked him out & after that would try & hold it in, even though he started using the potty again. He could hold it for a couple of days & when he went there would be loads, along with tears, getting anxious and blood.

It was obviously psychological but I started keeping a food diary, kept a record of what his poos were like, any blood, how long he hadn't been for & on really bad occasions taking photos. GP prescribed lactalose and although it was a bit better and it did help it was sometimes difficult to get the doseage right so we were a bit up & down on the pooing front!

After a couple of visits to the doctor we were referred to a paediatric who prescribed powders called Movicol and we have a much happier little boy who goes every day on the toilet without blood or tears & no sore bum.

Agree with MadameDefarge re GP & paediatric, hope your DD is feeling better soon.

Dr has prescribed her lactulose and asked me to bring her back in a week.

Hopefully it'll make a difference!

Blood + crying usually = anal fissure, hurts like b*ggery, I was prescribed lactulose (among other things) but didn't help, only thing that did (and cured them) was magnesium. Personally, I would try that before anything else. Good idea to cut out dairy as intolerance can cause them/make them worse, may not be the dairy, I am just presuming, as you said she drinks lots of milk.

It takes ages to go and causes "holding" because it hurts so much, you just don't want to go (ever again!)

It's doesn't always have to be dairy... Sometimes it's wheat . Does she eat lots of bread?
If you can go back to the GP, ask for Movicol instead of the Lactulose. It is generakky more effective and It has been a life saver for us.