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Tips on administering suppositories with an 8 month old baby please...!?

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PurpleLostPrincess · 09/05/2008 08:40

DD2 was born with an imperforate anus and has had all the surgeries etc. including colostomy reversal in February. Since being able to poo, she has had constipation so we've been dosing her up with lactulose for a while. Saw the consultant last week who prescribed suppositories every other day, have only just got the prescription yesterday (long story!).

Anyway, having got them, we've read the leaflet and it says that under 10yrs should only be administered with medical assistance . The grown up instructions say to keep the thing in there for 30 mins - how are we going to do this with a bouncy 8 month old baby!? Any tips welcome...

(have been on my specialist website with lots of other mums who've been through the same but its down for maintenance and I need to do this as early as possible this morning so thought I'd check here...).

Cheers in advance, will pop back in a while...

PLP

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BlaDeBla · 09/05/2008 10:36

I'm afraid I have only used paracetemol suppositories, which are really easy to insert and don't fall out and work really well. Can you speak to your HV about it?

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