Recurrent constipation in 15 month old

[CrazyLady]

Will she eat prunes? Sunsweet pitted prunes are quite yummy and might be helpful. Also stay away from banana while she is having trouble.

Hope you get it sorted out soon xx

stay away from apple too. It's recommended to be given to kids with gastro as is banana. DD went through a phase of this but I realised it was linked to the days the supermarket only had white bread. If I had to give her white bread I'd give her a smoothie of yoghurt and blueberries to counteract it itms.

HTH and I hope it sorts out!

[Taurean]

stay away from apple too. It's recommended to be given to kids with gastro as is banana. DD went through a phase of this but I realised it was linked to the days the supermarket only had white bread. If I had to give her white bread I'd give her a smoothie of yoghurt and blueberries to counteract it itms.

HTH and I hope it sorts out!

Ooh, good tips! I love the smoothie idea. Will get some frozen berries today and give that a go. She doesn't eat much apple and her bread is white but it's the high fibre, low GI bread. Maybe it's not as good as the marketing claims

[~Trish~]

The poor thing . I also find kiwi fruit works really well at clearing out the system .

[CrazyLady]

Ooh, good tips! I love the smoothie idea. Will get some frozen berries today and give that a go. She doesn't eat much apple and her bread is white but it's the high fibre, low GI bread. Maybe it's not as good as the marketing claims

I found even the high fibre white stuff was rubbish. It was definately the culprit. Wholemeal here only now. With the smoothies it started because if she was blocked up, she'd have a tummy ache and not want to "eat". even yoghurt seemed to scare her so if it was in a cup it was a drink iykwim. The yoghurt and vitamin C hit really helped. Plus the acidopholus helped unclog her. Now I give her one of those Vaalia kids squeezy sachets (probably not the best yoghurt) a day and no worries because she can do it herself. I have made the smoothies and frozen a few in icypole container things for novelty if DD isn't feeling well too.

[Fig]

My DD went through constipation problems around the same age. Co-incided with coming off breastmilk during the day. She got constipated and then got a fear about pooing so would hold it in for days. Then when it did come out it either hurt her again (reinforcing the whole pooing hurts) or we would have to use suppositries, coloxyl drops etc, equally traumatic.

After doing all the usual dietary things, we put her on the liquid parachoc DAILY for a couple of months. Sounds harsh but it was the best thing we did. Its not a laxative so the bowel wont become dependant on it. It just made her poos soft enough and made it so she had to go every day. We kept it going for three months to get her over the emotional problems. Weaned her off it by lowering the dose for the 4th month. She hasn't had a problem since, toliet trained herself and 2 and 1/2 without any dramas.

Goodluck with it all, it can become quite an ordeal for the little ones.

[UsPlus2]

I'm a bit sleepy but thought I would quickly write that my DS went through the same thing, and does sometimes. It gets worse when he goes off food, but I find that he still is happy to have fruit in a sassy, so I mix fresh cut up pear and kiwi fruit into the sassy and give that to him several times a day. It works great. When he is being particulary fussy I use the rafferty gardens satchels, the green one and the purple one (cant remember what fruit is in them right now) for morning and afternoon tea. HTH, will write more tomorrow