My DD has had bowel issues since mid last week when she started producing little balls, like marbles, completely unlike her. On Saturday night she woke at 2am screaming and did so for a good 20-30 minutes which is unlike her as I can normally settled her straight away. I thought it might have been a nightmare so once she was calm she went back to sleep.
The marbles were around still on Sunday but all else seemed fine. On Monday night she did the same, woke screaming, was hard to calm her down and I mentioned to DH that she hadn't done a #2 all day Monday which is unlike her as she is normally 1 or 2 dirty nappies a day. Anyway DD saw a Dr on Tuesday who said that her bowel was very very full and that was likely the issue. She recently had a vomit/gastro bug and he said it was likely her body tried to counter act the vomiting etc and now has gone the complete opposite. He told us to give her Coloxyl drops to try to help.
WELL.. it's done bugger all.. On Tuesday afternoon we got a few little marbles but Tuesday night was the same with us up with her about 5 times and her screaming her heart out. We tried putting her in a warm bath, have tried the belly massage and today I thought we were getting somewhere as she had some marbles this morning but then this afternoon a #2 more like her normal. I was a little confident of a good nights' sleep.
DD has just woken screaming again and took me a good 30 minutes to calm her down. In the end i gave her panadol and a dose of Infants' movicol via syringe. I would have thought her having 2 movements today might have helped but am I wrong and this is going to continue like this for days and days. I cannot bare seeing her crying like that..
Anyway have any suggestions on how I can help her with this and make it less painful for her??? PLEASE....
Make sure to that she is drinking enough water as this helps keep the stools loose. They dry out and this is when they become like "marbles" and it hurts to push out. Maybe she is reacting now to the pain associated with pushing them out.
Thanks for the replies ladies. We have the same situation again tonight.
I took DD back to the Dr this morning and he said her bowel felt alot less full than Tuesday which makes me wonder if the crying is caused by something else.
I've had her taking Coloxyl, Infants Movicol, trying to get her to drink as much fluid as possible but all she really wants is milk so i've only been giving her half bottles and watering it down along with a dose of coloxyl or movicol mixed in. I've tried prune juice which she flat out refused, I've been giving her fresh pears but she won't touch anything prune related.
The Dr told me to try a suppository so we did that tonight and got a big one within 20 minutes but tonight again she is upset and crying like she is pain, i just have a bad feeling it's something else but she can't tell me what. I'm really not sure what to do now and it's unsettling me as to what is wrong.
I just settled her again and it's now 12.30am and i've given her some panadol which the Dr said might help to relax her stomach muscles but I just cannot stand seeing her crying like that and it's in spurts, she will cry for 10, 20 or 30 minutes and then relax and go back to sleep so other than the constipation i don't know what else it could be as she is ok during the day. She is upset a little after her nap time so again it doesn't make sense, even the Dr said was unusual she was ok during the day and only getting upset at night.
Dr said if it was something more serious then she'd be getting worse and she'd be bad with it all day long. he said it could take 3 or more days to settle down but i don't think i can stand watching her cry for that much longer. No idea what to do.
Help! DD constipated and screaming...
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