Infant Piles/withholding bowel movements

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Has anyone got any experience of piles in infants? or infants withholding bowel movements?

DD is 5mnths old, about 7 wks ago she had bad constipation which made her bottom bleed, she was prescribed lactulose which she took for 3 days and land up with diaherra for 5 days. On the 4th day I noticed red fleshy bits coming out of her bottom, took her to A&E but the assured me that she didn't have piles.

Ever since then she will not have a bowel movement and i strongly suspect (from her behaviour) that she is withholding. Paeds and GP just keep telling me to carry on with laxative (sodium picosulphate) and suppostories but after almost 2mnths I'm not happy about this. Have tried diluted juice and pears and nothing happens, which makes me think even more that she is withholding because her bottoms hurts.

Has anyone had this with their los and what was the outcome? Are there any creams out there that might help her bottom heal?

Thanks

anyone?

my daughter had witholding problems for many months from the age of about just over a year. Difficult to remember the actual details now as she's 18 and doing A levels!! I don't know if you use it or not, but we had marvellous results from homeopathy and have been hooked ever since!

my daughter had witholding problems for many months from the age of about just over a year. Difficult to remember the actual details now as she's 18 and doing A levels!! I don't know if you use it or not, but we had marvellous results from homeopathy and have been hooked ever since!

sorry for the double entry...she was also prescribed suppositories, lactulose etc by the paediatrician and nothing ever helped. I'm actually remembering now as i'm sitting here that her problems started with a hard poo one day which resulted in a small 'tear', i think it's known as an anal fissure. Maybe this is your daughter's problem. Imagine if you had one, you wouldn't be too keen to poo either. I sympathise with you, it was an awful problem.

Thanks for replying mum46, just got back from holiday. I will look into homeopathy and speak to her paed again about it next month.

I've only just seen this CADS ...........yes my DD has had similar problems and I know how distressing it can be. Things improved greatly by changing from lactulose to another product called Movicol Paediatric Plain. This comes as a sachet of powder which you mix into liquid. It's much better, keeps things soft and easier so it doesn't hurt & there's less chance of witholding. Might be worth discussing with your GP? Reflexology is supposed to be effective too - quite how I don't know but various clinics have had success with it.