Re: Re: DIRREHA AND CONSTIPATION

[Guest guest]

I think that mineral oil is a strong laxative. You should look at

increasing fluids. It might be worthwhile to consider a stool softener

as well. Hopefully the fibre and milk of magnesia will have a similar

effect to the stool softener.

Good luck,

Bill

Hopper wrote:

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> We're wrestling with this right now as well.

> Our son would only go every 3 or 4 days, often with the help of

> MOM. When he did finally go, it would be very runny. So, being new

> to this game, we didn't know which extreme he was at (constipation

> or diarrhea). Finally, we got an x-ray done and sure enough he was

> very constipated, and the runny stuff was basically just coming

> around the hard stuff. Many glycerin suppositories, an enema, and

> a couple of days of Miralax haven't been able to clear him out yet.

> We are keeping in constant contact with the pediatrician and

> dietician, and I guess if something doesn't happen soon then we'll

> have to get the GI doc involved. I'm sure you know that

> constipation is a common side effect of the diet, especially at the

> beginning. We're obviously working on adding more fiber into his

> meals (probably taking Bill's advice and using psyllium husks?), and

> increasing his magnesium. The plan is to basically double his daily

> mag supplement and expect some diarrhea, then slowly back off on the

> mag. until things seem about right. I think it's just a learning

> process to see what works for your kid.

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>>Hi my son Caden, has been on the diet for amonth the strangest

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>>withh his bowel movments,for three days he had dirreha and now

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>>constipated, had to give him some MOM today, hope it works it has

>>been the fourth day, no B.M. has anybody else had aproblem with

>>this.Cade is not taking carnator and he is on Depakote could this

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>>aproblem,his seizures have reduced some but not much , was praying

>>to see a better reduction hopefully futher into the diet they

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>>get better, and getting this diet fine tuned. Any advice Cadens

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>>Viola Keto kid since september 2004 on depakote clonapan

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[Guest guest]

we have been battling this issues recently. We used magnesium and that helped

but it did not help get him " unblocked " . We were having the loose stools going

around the impaction like wendy described. We have finally got itunder control

with miralax but let me tell you that the constipation is the first time

has has seizures in 2 years other than infection or extreme cheating

on the KGD. You must stay on top of it.

He had an endoscopy and colonoscopy yesterday and got a clean bill of health.

It has taken about 6 months to get this under control. If we had not done the

xrays, we would not have known. had to be taken out of school for 5

weeks to give him high dose miralx to get him unconstipated.

It is no fun and Atkins is worse for those of you considering it. We are going

back to the KGD soon. I'm actually not dreading it because I know that it works

and hope and pray that it works again.