Movicol for bowel problems in children.

[kutiemel]

Hi,i wonder if anyone else has the same problem as me. My daughter has been suffering painfully with doing a poo since she was 3months old. Only recently after she became 2 1/2years old she got to see a specialist who prescribed movicol. For the first month it started to work and now it has stopped working properly as she either goes from a solid constipation and i give her more movicol to then and explosive poo. it just seems to go from one etream to another and this is not helping my daughter as she then complains of stomach ache. Can anybody help me please? Thanx Kutiemel

sounds like a dosage issue - perhaps go back to the specialist for more advice? what about her diet?

we use it too (DD is 18 months) and so far, so good.

We use it too and one of the things the consultant told me was that the good thing about this medicine is that it can easily be altered. My little girl has been like this since she was nearly three and will soon be 7 so we see a community nurse, CAMHS and the consultant.

Speak to the Gp but I am fairly sure that they will not want impactation to be occuring and will therefore encourage you to add an extra sachet to his dose. Mind you i am NOT a GP so don't do it on my say so

Oops meant to say do not worry about the runs/solids etc. Basically unless it is number 5 on the stool chart they are not worried. What you are desribing is very typical of constipation that is not fully controlled. A solid pooh acts as a plug, gets released because of the movicol and the stretched bowel is too loose to then contain the sloppy bits of pooh coming behind - hence the runs. Stick with a dose that gives one motion a day even if it means the runs rather than less medicine that leads to the very solid pooh. Have you had the leaflets about all this as they are quite good?

Reality - ahh should have spotted that. Oops!

me too! it turned up on threads I was watching, eh?