8 month old

[Ld1924]

Hi there,

Just looking for any advice really,

My 8 Month old has never been the greatest pooer, sometimes going 4 days without pooing, we're in the midst of getting home established with food, but for the past couple of weeks his poos gave been hard and dark green, I've tried giving him prunes, and water with his meals but it doesn't seem to be helping him? Tried the extra fruit and he doesn't seem to have an issues with dairy, no rashes no reactions, he's always been fine with his formula.

The doctors gave me laxatives when he was little,but we never needed to end up using them, if we were concerned with the lack of poop, but hes going almost everyday, just hard? And his stomach isn't hard. Any advice or should I bite the bullet with the laxatives?

Hi
I'd say constipation and green poo screams food allergies. Most common are dairy then soya. Or like in our case both. I'd strip the dairy out of your lo diet for 4 weeks and see if it improves. Would also consider getting a cmpa formula prescribed by your GP. Good luck on that one, they don't like prescribing those with them being quite expensive x

Sorry I'm all kinds of new to all of this so my apologies if i sound stupid , it's only his poos?

I've never seemed to have an issue with his cow and gate formula, he doesn't seem like he's in any discomfort, his stomachs soft, and his ezcema doesn't flare up? I'll see if I can get into the doctors tomorrow x

If he's got to 8 months, and started weaning, then the odds of him being prepared to drink a hydrolysed formula is virtually nil. I'm generally on the side of starting laxatives early in childhood constipation, as then you usually don't need to use them for anything like as long, and save a lot of pain along the way.