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Dulcolax has PEG in it.. Wow! do these doctors take us for fools. Did you know a side effect of PEG toxicity is slurred speech.. My son stutters when on it so lets prescribe another product with PEG in it.. I'm so disgusted!

Amy

Re: Disgusted! Advice needed. This seriously can't be happening!

Amy, I hate to be the one to tell you this but Colace is Polyethylene glycol, just in a different form! The only difference from miralax is; I believe they added electrolytes. You need to change doc's. He obviously doesn't care. Is your son Autistic? It seems those doc's act like it's not an emergency when your child hasn't went for long periods of time, because in their world it's an everyday expierience. Wow! that's a lot of med's and still nothing? If this ever happens again, you need to demand the x-rays and go to the ER, nowdays, they are digital and they have them available with a touch of a button. Then you can go to the hospital he works at and explain your concerns. I would also contact the hospital anyway explaining what he did already, if your going to tell on them, they are less likely to continue to be shrug you off. Myself, I would change doc's. I would be furious he gave colace, did you tell him about miralax before this?

JeanieAmy <acdudickyahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

Unbelievable is all I can say about the experience we have had in the last 2 weeks. My DS 5 yrs old has had constipation the last 2 to 3 years. It's gotten so bad we went in to see our pediatric GI. He was having some leaking of diarrhea, around a hardened mass of stool.which an x-ray confirmed. They had me put him on 4oz of Mag Citrate every 4 hours for 4 doses. Then they had me put him on 1 tablespoon of Milk of Mag. concentrate and 50 mg of Colace. 5 days later he had a Barium enema done. They said he didn't have hirshsprungs disease. But they also said he was still full of stool in his colon. After ALL that it didn't "clean him out".. I asked if the x-ray was worse than the one before or were we at least making progress? The nurse, who has tried to help me out as much as possible said she'd ask the doctor to compare the x-rays and see what we need to

do.. Every day last week I called. The nurse called back every day, but the doctor hadn't compared his x-rays. So I called the appointment desk and asked for an appointment to talk to the doctor face to face. She said sure our first available is on JUNE 28th!!! I kept calling saying he's not going. I know he's really backed up. We need to do something. So on Thursday the GI told the nurse to call us and say he won't have time to check the x-rays until monday and he'll let us know. I said "do you know I'm actually worried we could be talking about an obstruction soon." She said yeah, that will be a bad thing he'd have to be hospitalized with a NG tube and we want to avoid that. NO KIDDING?!?!? ! So I said but the doctor can't look at the x-rays until Monday?? and she said correct. So I said what am I supposed to do in the mean time. She said... Gave him another

enema and do the Mag citrate again.. My poor little one what they've put him through because the doctor won't read an x-ray and tell me what the heck to do!! So I do the enema and Mag citrate.. except I forgot I gave a dose and ended up giving one extra dose.. That's 2 bottles in 24 hours. I was freaked and call out the Duke and had them page the ped GI on call. Which so happened to have been our doctor! I sat on the phone for over 15 minutes and he never picked up his page or called me back! I finally hung up and called poison control. I'm beyond furious. AND I have a son who is still constipated or not as bad! NO ONE WILL TELL ME!!!

HELP PLEASE!!!

I have tried with very little to no success:

Mirlax- worked but NO WAY.

Oxy-powder- 1 cap a day for a couple days one good stool then nothing again.

Milk of Mag. 1 tablespoon of the concentrated (2 of regular) and it's barely helped.

colase new to him but it doesn't seem to be doing much.

Fiber I have been giving him a bowel of bran buds 15 g of fiber in it a day. Fiber does seem to help him, but it's hard to tell now because we are either having time of complete constipation or complete diarrhea.

What is the best Magnesium to use?? How high of a dose can I go?? He's 5 yrs old and weighs 46 lbs.

What else do I do?? you guys have been more helpful than my duke doctor. I have no idea if he's cleaned out or still contipated. He barley went today. Please let me know what works for you when your in a crisis??

Thanks so much!!

Amy

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