Any cosmocol experts know how to help please?

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Hi all,
My 3 year old has just been on an impaction regime with cosmocol, she was having 2 sachets a day, then up to 4 a day at which point she was having mushy stools plus water as she was leaking out of her nappy a bit. This was a week ago and we have continued on 2 sachets a day now but my concern is that she is having several motions a day and it's mushy poo and we are obviously trying to get to normal poos.
I've also since seen a video that says during the disimpaction to wait till you get to water stage and then reduce cosmocol to maintenance dose. I'm confused now as I don't know if I should reduce the sachets and see if her poos firm up or to up the dose again to get to the watery stage?
TIA for help

Impactation regime means going until it’s water so you know you have removed all the stuck poo. The ERIC website is helpful.

Try movicol mummies on Facebook. If you're sticking with two sachets a day you're disimpacting slowly (my preference!) but unlikely to get to water. They'd advise doubling the daily sachets until you get to "rusty tea" then reducing back down. I've never been able to face it but definitely have a look on there and seek further advice.

It doesn't sound like you've disimpacted. The idea of disimpaction regime is to totally clear out all the backlog of hard rocks of poo, and that basically takes increasing the dose up to the level of just water with no lumps, and staying there for several days, before reducing. Then after disimpaction, you're actually aiming for softer than normal poo, to let the stretched up and distended rectum shrink back down and heal up, to get back normal function.

Have a look at www.eric.org.uk

I'm struggling to find Movicol Mummies - tried a a search on Movicol Mums as well without success.

@Unseenentity I've dmmed you a link. The group is paused for some reason soni hope it will stay. Eric will also have good advice.