Guest guest Posted July 5, 2005 Report Share Posted July 5, 2005 Hi, my ds (29 months) was prescribed Miralax today. He's always had infrequent stools (like every 4 days), but in the past few months has started going 10 day stretches with no bowel movements. In between times we have days of screaming, crying, ds says he hurts, walks on his tippy toes, and has become an expert at holding it in. I'm sure this is probably really familiar to many of you. We did try Little Tummies laxative drops at the lowest dosage, but they made him cramp badly and gave him explosive bms. I had spoken with his ped. about this a couple months ago and she recommended a list of high fiber foods to try and soften his stools and make the experience less painful for him. This worked for approx. 3 days, and then we were back to the old pattern. Finally today it had been 13 days (well, he had some skid marks on his diaper the last 4 days, but nothing significant) so I took him back in. She felt his abdomen and said " Well he must be passing something - his belly is soft! " (I felt like she was suggesting I'm making all this up). But she did prescribe Miralax for him, at the full adult dosage, everday for 1 week, and then 3x/week thereafter for 2 months. In researching today, now i'm not sure i want to start him on the Miralax (and I still need to read what you folks have had to say about the stuff). If I don't use it, I'm still not sure what to do. The ped. did agree that the time to get ds back on track is right now before he does permanent damage to his bowel. Help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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