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Please help me with my seemingly incontinent 8 year old daughter - getting worried.

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StartingToGetVeryWorried · 22/06/2008 11:43

My daughter is 8 (9 in october) and to put it bluntly she stinks! She always smells of wee and poo and it is very very very rare that she keeps her knickers clean all day.

Sometimes it is so mortifyingly embarassing as it is really quite strong and I cant imagine what others must think.

She potty trained normaly at about 2.5 yrs and although not as good as my son was was fine, usual amount of accidents.

She then had an accident when she was about 4 which involved hurting her bum and from then on started a cycle of holding poos in until she became severely constipated etc etc

It seemed to improve for a good while but recently over the last few months it is back with a vengeance.

Now she is approaching 9 I am really worrying for her as eventually the kids in her class will pick up on her as the stinky kid and start bullying her Im sure.

I keep finding knickers covered in poo and wee hidden stuffed at the back of drawers.

The part of it I dont understand is taht she doesnt seem to care - every night I lay her clothes out for the next day including clean underwear yet often she doesnt use the clean knickers and keeps on the dirty ones???

Can anyone give me any advice on how to deal with it?

It is not full accidents she is having, her knickers are normally stained with varying degrees of skidmarks from light to very bad but not actual full poos iyswim.

Im not sure where the wee comes into it but that is certainly an issue too.

HELP

OP posts:
Peckarolloveragain · 20/03/2009 23:02

Hi everyone

I have come home tonight as DD's dad is staying over with her tonight, Im back again in the morning.

Things are going well, she had the tube down yesterday which was quite distressing for her as they struggled to get it down, she was upset for a while after it but once it settled down she was fine.

She has had about 4 litres of whatever it is put down so far and has started going to the toilet, its all going as planned and should be clear by tomorrow when she will move back on to the movicol and picosulfate.

Doctors this morning have said they are also going to refer her to a psychologist to help with the mental scars that this condition has left so I am pleased about that.

DORISISAPINKDRAGON - please leave the guilt behind, it is of no use, tell me abit more about why you think this could be the same issue for your DD and maybe we can share experiences.

On the ward DD is on there are various children going through the same, all with devoted caring parents and all of us after talking had one thing in common that we just didnt realise what was happening and thought that it was behavioural so please NO GUILT!!

lucygreen · 04/07/2009 17:04

having grown up with bladder problems and been through it with kids too, i would very matter of factly swop to disposable underwear. she will most probably fit most brands of standard xl pullups fine, or if she is bigger huggies drynites can work for night and day use, these are discreet, and can be changed and disposed of regularly. school will help you put a plan of scheduled toilet breaks and clean ups/changes in place in a way the other kids dont know about. they can just thinks she needs medcine or whatever. in my experience this is a forward and honest step forward, and not a backwards step.

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