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Dd on movicol for a long time now, advise/reassurance needed

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Cupcakemummy85 · 01/02/2013 18:57

Hi all. Dd has been on movicol since she was around 9 months. She is nearly 19 months and we've battles with constipation for such a long time. She drinks a lot of fluid, juice, water, milk, squash, whatever I can't get her to drink, it's not easy though. Her diet is pretty good when she is doing a lot of poos and goin regularly. If she is blocked up she goes off food and fluid really quickly. I've seen the doctor so many times and we r goin back Thursday. She is on 2 sachets a day and I tried to lower to 1 and 1/2 like the doc told me but it has blocked her up again. It's like her body gets used to the movicol when we up the dosage. I really don't understand. Is anyone else going through the same or has any advise. Our conversation with dh and grandparents are litreally about dd poo lol and I would really like to get it sorted. Most kids have a cup of orange juice or a load of cherries and will have the squits or days but it doesn't effect my dd. I would understand if she ate crap like nuggets and crisps and chocolate but she doesn't.

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squalorvictoria · 09/02/2013 15:53

StuntNun my consultant recommends mixing into food if they can't drink it. First mix the powder with a small amount of water and leave it to dissolve (it will look syrupy, her words!) then mix it into custard or yoghurt or even make it into jelly.

StuntNun · 09/02/2013 18:23

Thanks Victoria I'll give that a go. Poor DS2 gave it his best shot but he was gagging on it. It doesn't help than he has to take Sanomigran and supplement drinks as well so he has lots of yucky things to drink.

squalorvictoria · 09/02/2013 20:55

I know, it's foul. I tasted DD's once and it tasted like juice plus soap and salt. Apparently jelly goes down quite well with older children because they like being able to eat jelly every day Grin

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Trapped01 · 27/11/2017 16:35

I know this is an old thread but hoping someone that's posted previously has some advice for me now as my daughter has been on movicol over a year now (she's 16 months) & she still struggles with constipation so much. IT doesn't make sense because she can not go for days but when she does it's soft (paste like-sorry tmi) & she screams while doing it. I can't se why that would be hurting her so much.

Drs have been useless & just keep saying it's common but I can't bear watching my baby suffer like this. She eats very healthily & drinks lots of water. I'm worried there's more to it....

Anyone??

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