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Update She's soooo constipated!
Cjra wrote:
Tonight after dinner, she pooped! Ok, it wasn't as soft as I'd have liked, but it wasn't black and it wasn't hard pellets. Yay! I am glad you talked to your pediatrician. And so glad that her difficulties appear to have passed. Yes, some foods and drugs can produce black stools, but your little girl probably isn't getting any of those. She may have had an upper GI bleed, now resolved. Or there was no bleed. But if you see that nasty black again, please follow up with your ped! For Monkey Boy (3yo), constipation is linked to insufficient fluid intake. A high fiber diet can make constipation worse, if fluid intake is not sufficient. |
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Update She's soooo constipated!
On Jun 27, 9:50 pm, Chris wrote:
On Jun 27, 9:44?pm, cjra wrote: This morning I talked to the pedi in my office, and she wasn't too concerned but said to push the water and watch her for a few days. Also to add some pedialyte to make sure we didn't overdo it with water. (once I explained we'd tried all the usual foods and juices). She wasn't too worried about the black stool just yet. After talking some more, she said it couldn't hurt to call our regular pedi's office, so I did. Initially they said just to use a suppository. But after discussing the black stool more, suggested we come in. The NP recommended we bring in a stool sample, checked her out and said she was otherwise fine although she could feel the stool inside her... she recommened the suppository and upping the bran, as well as water (we always give water, but it has been hot lately and she is sweating more). I joked that since we decided to come into the doc's office, today she'd suddenly start pooping well. Guess what? Tonight after dinner, she pooped! Ok, it wasn't as soft as I'd have liked, but it wasn't black and it wasn't hard pellets. We'll still bring in a sample and push the fiber laden foods, and see how the next few days go. On Jun 25, 9:23 pm, cjra wrote: Poor DD. I was about to call the doctor as she wasn't eating solids much (tho nursing fine), but this weekend she finally started eating more again. In the past I've given her prunes or prune juice when she appears to be a bit stopped up, but it's not been often. However,the past 2 weeks have been awful for her. Her sleep (never great but getting better) went down the tubes, she was cranky and miserable all the time. She is cutting 6 teeth as well, so we chalked it up to that. Then I noticed she hadn't been pooping. And when she does, it's small hard pellets. Her abdomen is also really hard and she's clearly in pain. I tried giving her prunes or prune juice and she just refuses to it, she also now refuses all other juice although she'll take water. I tried giving her prunes again tonight and she wouldn't eat them. I did manage to sneak some prune juice into her peas. I thought it was the cereal I'd been giving her - I thought it was multigrain but maybe it was rice, we bought it in Switzerland and had thrown away the box so I couldn't check. Anyway, I tossed that out on Thursday. Friday she pooped again and we thought all was better, but then she didn't poop at all Saturday, and when she finally did today, it was small, hard and very very black, almost like charcoal had been rubbed on her bum (powdery like). Also very very stinky - a different kind of stink, not usual poop smell. I put some crushed bran in her dinner and she pooped 2x more last night, but it was the same - black, hard, smelly, painful. It's more than she's pooped all week though. Today she pooped once, again small, hard pellets. Her diet consists of: b'fast : multigrain cereal (Earth's Best) with BM and a fruit lunch: 2-3 veg cubes snack: yoghurt + 1-2 fruit cubes dinner: 2-3 veg cubes + yoghurt+fruit BM throughout the day and night Cup with water offered at every meal (altho now she won't take it from the sippy, it has to be directly from the cup which means she takes a bit less) She has teething bisquits (barley or wheat) occasionally, but hasn't been too interested lately. Fruits a papaya, mangoes, grapes, peaches, blueberries, cherries, sometimes pears altho she doesn't like them. No bananas (doesn't like those either) Veg a beets, carrots, spinach, kale, cauliflower, peas, broccoli, sweet potato, zucchini, acorn and butternut squashes and another assortment of 'summer squash'. She has yoghurt at least 2x/day (she eats everything better with the yoghurt) - whole milk plain, I'd guess about 1-2 tablespoons each time. So what could be causing it? I've read excessive whole milk is a problem, so worried about the yoghurt, but also read that a yoghurt smoothie was a good treatment for constipation. I'll put some flax seed in her cereal tomorrow (just read on Dr Sears that it's good for constipation). What else can I do as she refuses all juice and tho she took some prunes yesterday, it didn't appear to do much? Now she's eating well, but she's still not pooping much.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - My daughter has always pretty much consistently had harder formed balled stools. I sprinkle a fiber bran I buy from the grocery store onto everything we eat. I've been adding ground up bran to her food for the past week. .. I just got my hair done today and the hairdresser was talking about her 5-y/o getting so bound up they did some x-rays on her. They had put her on two different drugs, an antibiotic for what they first thought was vaginosis and then MiraLax, a stool softener. Her tummy got really upset from that combination and it didn't seem to help anything for her either. ouch, poor kid!! |
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Update She's soooo constipated!
On Jun 27, 10:50 pm, Pologirl wrote:
Cjra wrote: Tonight after dinner, she pooped! Ok, it wasn't as soft as I'd have liked, but it wasn't black and it wasn't hard pellets. Yay! I am glad you talked to your pediatrician. And so glad that her difficulties appear to have passed. Yes, some foods and drugs can produce black stools, but your little girl probably isn't getting any of those. She may have had an upper GI bleed, now resolved. Or there was no bleed. But if you see that nasty black again, please follow up with your ped! For Monkey Boy (3yo), constipation is linked to insufficient fluid intake. A high fiber diet can make constipation worse, if fluid intake is not sufficient. I suspect this might be it. Though I usually give her lots of water - I give it to her with every meal and always have a sippy cup with water around as it's been very hot these days, due to the teething she's not really liked the sippy cup and it took about a week for me to notice she wasn't drinking from it much. Now I just give her the cup straight, which is helping, |
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Update She's soooo constipated!
On Jun 28, 7:44?am, cjra wrote:
On Jun 27, 10:50 pm, Pologirl wrote: Cjra wrote: Tonight after dinner, she pooped! Ok, it wasn't as soft as I'd have liked, but it wasn't black and it wasn't hard pellets. Yay! I am glad you talked to your pediatrician. And so glad that her difficulties appear to have passed. Yes, some foods and drugs can produce black stools, but your little girl probably isn't getting any of those. She may have had an upper GI bleed, now resolved. Or there was no bleed. But if you see that nasty black again, please follow up with your ped! For Monkey Boy (3yo), constipation is linked to insufficient fluid intake. A high fiber diet can make constipation worse, if fluid intake is not sufficient. I suspect this might be it. Though I usually give her lots of water - I give it to her with every meal and always have a sippy cup with water around as it's been very hot these days, due to the teething she's not really liked the sippy cup and it took about a week for me to notice she wasn't drinking from it much. Now I just give her the cup straight, which is helping, I noticed with all 3 of my kids that they literally used a sippy cup to take sips and walk away from the cup. I had better luck getting them to drink water when I diluted white grape juice like 3 parts water to 1 part juice in the sippy cups. I had better luck with water in baby bottles. My 1-year-old calls his water juice, even though it is only water. lol. I nursed/offered formula (they were fed differently) first and then offered their juice/water combo or water bottle with the solids they were eating. |
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