Childrens constipation- is there anything I haven't tried?

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I have an almost 3 year old who is severely constipated and I have tried a number of things and wanted to see if there was anything I hadn't thought of. He is also witholding on purpose cos he knows how painful it is.

He is an awfuly fussy eater and barely eats any fruit and veg. He also dislikes fruit juice and smoothies (although will sometimes have baby fruit purees.) Just before anyone mentions it I never give him alternatives for his meal and he probably does not eat an evening meal 85% of the time.

I give him veg and I hide it in sauces too. He will eat it hidden in tomato sauce on a homemade pizza but will often scrape it off pasta!

He has raisins, fruit purees, porridge, all bran, bran flakes, wholeweat or granary bread, wholeweat pasta, baked beans.

I have tried adding linseeds. He has been on 10ml of lactulose a day for months to no affect. He started on movicol 5 days ago and he only just poo-ed today but there is loads more in there. He won't drink the movicol and as he doesn't like juices I have dissolved it in water and then added some milk so he will drink it.

I am putting off toilet training because of it. Am going back to drs after xmas to see if we should up the lactulose dose or get some laterantive to movicol.

He is so much pain and gets spectacularly bad tempered with it. It is just dominating my life at the moment.

If there is anything that anyone else has tried I would love to know! I bought up the whole dried fruit section in a supermarket teh other day and the only thing he liked was the yoghurt covered fruit flakes. Didn't help and they are probably as crap as eating a bag of sweets!

califig is effective but should only be used short term.

Laxoberol which is on prescription is really good too and it tastes of orange i think.there is another one called dioctyl paediatric which is also effective,but all should be used with caution as they can make the bowel lazy if used long term.

ooh lots more ideas. Thank you so much.

I think the movicol is working as he has pooed about 4 times since I last posted. He will drink it when added to milk. But I will cut donw on his milk in general and give water then as he may not drink enough. He is also hoovering down baby fruit purees so maybe he has sort of clicked they help. Who knows!

Have you tryed probiotics from health shop, also try message the bellie with orange oil. Ask at your health shop. My wee girl is nearly 3 got the same sort off problems. good luck

Not sure if its been mentioned but if there's no food intolerance, psyllium husk added to porridge/drinks is the one.