HELP I need HELP........movicol

[saint2shoes]

Just given dd her first dose. i just made it up and thickened it a bit(all her drinks are thickened) she hated it, it nearly made her sick,
advice please
do you add squash?
(next time i won't thicken)

I put it dd's drink (250ml of half water, half fortini), as long as you have the required amount of water in the drink (65ml per sachet IIRC) I think you can put it in any drink so squash should be okay. My DD wouldn't drink it neat at all.

sorry just to add that fortini is a fortified milk drink!

at the moment she is on one sachet so it has to be mixed with just over 60ml water. so very small drink.

DD1 drinks little or no liquid and there is no way I am risking putting her off the few sips she will take. Movicol (v small doses) goes in mixed with her yoghurt. Still seems to work.

interesting
the doc made a big thing about how dd doesn't drink( I saind she does just the school don't give her enough) they seemed to be saying to have movicol you had to drink a lot.

good idea
wow you lot are clever

my DS2 has his with his morning orange juice.

he is 6 and takes it lovely

I do think dd will be ok If I make it with squash(evil squash with e numbers)

ah, but it is the Enumbers that make it so drinkable!

are you getting the paed movical or half movical? They are the same in terms of strength but the paed one (purple lettering. Think the 'half' one has blue lettering) is supposed to taste better. But think its also more expensive so doctor / pharmacy will always lean towards giving you the half one.

I generally just sprinkle it into the friuty mush I give dd off spoon cos she has given up on drinking altogether

due to a bit of a cock up, I had to borrow the movicol from my tame chemist. I checked with the nurse and he said she would be on the pead one, so I have borrowed 10 sachets, hopefully on monday the prescription will be sorted out. I think the problem is it was "different" dd doesn't do "different"

Ah all the best. Wow - impressed they didn't try and fob you off with the cheaper salty stuff. Must be my stingy pct - they still try 2 yrs down the line to sneak a cheaky half box in. And dd is only 3 yo ffs! Maybe she's too over her quota of meds and they have to claw something back somewhere!

the good thing is my tame chemist is really good and also he knows dd's doc at her sn school, so she knows that if she makes a mistake or trys to palm me of with crap he will pick up on it.

Thank you everyone
dh just gave her a drink with it in, she had no idea that anything was hidden in the drink and drank it with no problems

IT WORKED
she has been.......on a tuesday, can't remember the last time she went this early in the week

I sprinkle half a sachet on my sons weetabix of a morning, as it gets mixed in with the milk and cereal itself it disguises the taste. I know it should be mixed with water/milk/squash but it put my son off drinking and I found this way helped.
Good luck - it is magic stuff!!