What do you do for constipation?

foxybride · August 2009

DS has a hard time taking water from a bottle, even sugar water. The doctor said to add karo syrup to his formula and the only kind the store had was karo dark corn syrup. Now I am seeing via google that karo isn't good to give infants. Any ideas?

TIA!

schmoodle · August 2009

We haven't had to do this yet, but our pediatrician said if he went 7 days without pooping to give him 2 oz. of prune juice.

firsttogo · August 2009

Our pedi told us to do this, and it worked pretty well.

Take a Qtip with some diaper creme, or vaseline on the end.

Gently insert in to his rectum, and move around a little (like not farther than the head of the qtip)

She told me that it kind of reminds them to poop..... It worked immediately for us after 8 days of no poop so watch out!!!

If that is not doing it, you can use glycerin supps. We got them at the pharm, and I cut one in half longwise because I was worried about how thick it was.

Sorry for a gross answer, but the things we do as parents!

Mrs.Babbsy · August 2009

aww look at him in the siggy, soooo cute!

mel72 · August 2009

we were doing 1 oz of water w 2 tsp of white grape juice and used the medicine dropper and he sucked it out

if that didn't work they suggested the rectal thermometer trick

GL!

pamela-matt · August 2009

It seems they all go through this at about the same time in life. Bicycle the legs, put in warm bath with water covering tummy and massage tummy, pear/apple/or prune juice (2 ounces). If all else fails we had to do glycerin suppository (they have children's size). You just put it in until you don't see it anymore. Poop within minutes. Good luck

kamcfarlane · August 2009

our ped had us put a tsp of karo (dark worked better) in his bottles (5oz). before that we tried 1-3tsp of prune juice in his bottles, but that stopped working. the rectal stimulation or warm bath never worked for us.

good luck!

yankee42 · August 2009

i am a total constipation pro!! haha. both of my guys had serious issues, and eventually had to be put on daily miralax.

until then though, we tried karo syrup (which an on call doc told us to do, but my pedi was not very happy about..its kind of old school, and not the safest), we also tried milk of magnesia..but it didn't help that much

for us when they were wee ones..the best thing was the bicycling the legs and the rectal stimulation with the thermometer. my doc also recommended prune juice, but we never did it.

one thing i learned was that even though it seemed as though they were straining all the time, much of that was gas..the doc wouldn't even get concerned unless it had been over 72 hours, but they were FF...not sure if you FF or BF

good luck! it sucks

BelleBaby · August 2009

My pedi said that they don't worry until they go 7 days without a BM. But if we got concerned, she said 1 oz. of warm apple juice a day. We haven't had to do that yet, but we got close.

TxJen1972 · August 2009

My pedi says to worry if it's been more than 5 days or if the bm is hard.

He said to do 1 oz of water and 1 oz of either baby apple-prune juice or apple juice. He also said I could do the karo. FWIW, the karo worked almost immediately and the apple juice worked better than the apple-prune.

GL!!

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