my son is a teenager and suffers from pooing all the time in his pants. What can I do?

hi my 3old son wont eat much. hes hasnt eaten much in the last 3months, the doctor said as long hes drinking its fine. but hes allways loved his food. he can only have a small sandwich and an apple and a yogurt and thats all for the day

I am having such trouble with my 8 year old daughter at the moment. Like many other children on here she has had problems going for a poo for years now. She has just had aweek off school because she has a blockage in her bowl and is on 4 sachets of Movical a day to help to clear it. Some days she is on the toilet for 1 hour at a time. I feel so sad for her because she has tummy aches and gets really embarrassed. I have a good gp at the moment that we are going back to see on Monday. I need this sorted so she can enjoy her life and not worry abOut the toilet all the time.

my little girl age 6 ended up in a and e this weekend with really bad stomache pain the x ray she had showed a blockage of poo they put her on 2 shachets of movicol a day this was friday its now monday and nothing happened yet could someone please tell me how long it should take to start working thankyou.

my 6yr old daughter has this problem 2, she start when she waz potty trained at 3yrs and had a hard poo since then she got soo scared and over the yrs jus got worse as she will hold her self up to 4wks and then she gets very distress and uncomfortable and when the time comes for her to have a poo u can see in her face the panic she scream and crosses her legs on the toilet.........and will not do one i have bin that many pants that i have come to the concluson that i have start puttin ladies pads on her jus to save the pants ................it has taken me 3yrs with 3 different types of medicines and wasnt untill a NEW doctor start at the clinic that i got her a appointment at the hospital was like winning the lottery lol, waz so plz untill i attended and she was HOPELESS told me jus to keep on with the med and see me in a months time omg feel like i have been cheatted, so back to the drawing board so to speak as she on the med but its gone the oppersite now which is even worse as it goes everywere and she cant go swimming i think its a mental problem now were she is scared to seat on the toilet jus incase a large poo comes out plz help me xx

my son is 3 an a half years old, hes been suffering from constipation since a baby. I've tried everything, and movicol was the only thing that worked. I had him on them for a short while and it worked, but my son just doesn't know when he has to poo. He does it on his pants all the time. I think that long term use of the movicol has made his bowel very lazy. So i stopped it and now i'm tryin reflexology and that works aswell but still doing it on his pants sometimes 4 or 4 times in 1 day and then nothing for 10 days. I'm at my wits end. The doctor sait to starthim back on the movicol so i did and things are alot worse again. I don't know if its a phobia or just that he has no push in him to poo. HELP

Girls my 2 year lod olso strrugle with her poop. she end up in A&E cos of her problems. but i spoke to my grandmother and she told me about Flax seeds! its work! i was giving her flax for a week with her medicine and after i was giving her lees medicine and more flax seeds. now she is off with her medications and she is on flax seeds. she still struggle but she doesnt scream with a pain. i guess its more to her confidence then to constipation. hopefully she will start beliving that going to the toilet doesnt have to be painfull. i really wanted to tell you about it! i hope all our little children will be pain free soon!

Although I am a grown up I can really sympathise with these stories as for the past fifteen plus years I've had bowel issues. As a child I was really sensitive and would either be completely constipated or suffering with diarrhoea. My parents took me to doctor after doctor who used to say & do nothing other that prescribe movicol, senna and lactose to help me go and loperamide to stop me going! At my worst I was practically taking both types of medication simultaneously!!! Then aged 19 I happened to be talking to a friend of a friend who was a nurse in am allergy clinic and was telling her my problems. She gave me a list of common triggers and suggested I try cutting them out my diet to see if it had an impact. Wheat/gluten had no effect, however dairy did, interestingly not only did by bowel habit improve but so did my eczema! I changed gp and on explaining my 15 years of hell and then improvement with a dairy limited diet my new gp was very supportive. It turns out I was lactose intolerant, just because not all the avenues were explored initially. I really would urge patents to push medical professionals to seek the root of the problem, other that just treating the symptoms as aged 4 had time been taken to do this I could have avoided years of taking medications I didn't need!

my son has been having problems with consipation since he was 7 months now he is 2 and a half. He suffered terribly and we tried everything that the books had told us. Prunes, pears, apple juice ect... then i had a second baby and we took him to get his check up and mentioned about my other son having trouble with getting his poo out. Luckly she was also a natropath and told us that there is light at the end of the tunnel! First things first get them off cows milk and put them on soy or rice milk. She then told us that we try warm lemon cordial before bed then brush teeth of course and then first thing in the morning. They do this is hospitals when a child goes in for having extreamly bad constipation and usually helps get things moving . this helps and is a natural sugar lubricant to help move the waste through the bowels. much like lactalose. then we were told if that has no effect then to try kids probioctics and fish oil which teamed with soy milk WORKS A TREAT. we have had no problems at all with the constipation and now my little boy doesn't scream anymore and no more anal fissures:) it was such a relife to see him happy on the toilet and not terrified of pain when he passed his poo!!! give it a try and let you bubbas have the relife too:)

Hi my daughter is will be 3 in Jan,,,she is now in pants and is dry at night and excellent on the toilet for wee's but she will not poo on the toilet!!,,,shes holding her poos for days until she cries cause shes in pain but she still wont poo in the toilet. I have managed to get her back in nappy pants at bedtime and it seems she will do a poo when shes sleeping but shes holding it for days first...i spoke to the health visitor who said its a common problem and she will get over it but that was 4 months ago its so distressing she just refuses point blank to do it and as soon as you mention a poo shes get upset..i really dont know what to do,,,should i take her to the doctors???