Anyone have any experience of movical?

[Dibsie]

My 5 year old son has been prescribed this by the 'poo clinic'. He needs to take one sachet daily. Can anyone tell me anything about it? Is it best to given early on or later in the day? I know every child is different but how long did it take for it to work it's way through? My big fear is that the urge will take him when he's at school and, because he refuses to use the loo, he'll mess himself and end up embarrassed by the whole thing.

Have posted this in the childrens health section as well.

We were initially on two sachets a day, to give in the morning and in the evening. That was too much and the consequences weren't nice!! Now down to one sachet, and have been told the best time is to give it in the evening, just before bed, to give it time to work it's way through in time for a morning poo.

DD was prescribed one sachet per day, but we were told to alter to suit her and she is currently on one sachet every other day.

We split this into two doses, so she has half in the morning and half of an evening. She never poos overnight so I don't think it has an immediate effect at all, more cumulative.

HTH - any questions, feel free to ask.

The reason we split into two doses is that one big dose was just too much for her - she is only 2.8.

Thanks for this. I'm going to pick up his prescription this afternoon so we can start it over the weekend - deep joy! Mind you it's got to be better than him withholding poo and giving himself chronic tummy ache!

Good luck. It is good and it does work. I put DD's in her milk and she's fine taking it.

My dd [5] had to have 2 courses after becoming terribly constipated. She was so bad I took her to A&E as she couldn't stand straight

The first course the hospital only gave her was 2 sachets & while it worked, it didn't clear her out, iykwim..so we were back to square one after 3 days.

Then they gave her a maintenance dose.

Day 1 - 1/2 sachet (as soon as we got home - at 10pm)

Day 2 - 1 (early am, kept off school but mainly due to pain)

Day 3 - 1 & 1/2 (1 before school, 1/2 after)

Days 4/5/6/7 2 sachets. (1 before school, 1 after)

It finally worked & worked well. Dd didn't suddenly get the urge to go, but I tried to instill in her that she should listen to her body, thankfully her teacher was very kind & gave her permisson to just up & leave the room for the toilet when she needed [the toilet being conveniently situated next to her class]

Dd didn't have any accidents, but towards the end it did get (tmi) quite runny & so she would have if she didn't go when she needed to.

Thankfully we have had no repeats! Hope he is better soon.

dd has cp and movicol has been brilliant, she has it at about 6 and then goes just after(so that is the day before dose working)

Oh & dd's was working by day 2, so was v quick for her.

Hi

I've got lots of experience with Movicol PP, sadly. My son, 4, is on eight sachets a day, at the moment, for chronic constipation. He's been on it for nearly three years now.

I find the best time to give it is either first thing in the morning, then it has all day to work, and he might go early evening, or about tea time, and he goes in the mornin (or thats the theory, anyways)

I don't tell ds he's taking it - if he knew then he wouldn't, iyswim? And it doesn't have to be dissolved in drinks - i've put it in custard, yogurt, jellies and in the milk for cereal ect before now, just so he gets it into him.