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Hi I am an English reader of this bulletin board and we have a 20 month old daughter who is Stool Withholding and has been for over 6 months.
In the UK our doctor has prescribed a daily dose of Senna to soften her stools and force a daily BM. Apparently the British medical opinion is the oil is too difficult for a baby to be expected to take and so it isn't made available to us. I can sympathise with that opinion but I am also concerned of the longer-term effects of taking a laxative on a daily basis. The paediatrician has assured my wife that there are no long term effects on Natalie's bowel health from this (however long it takes). Are there any second opinions on this (from qualified people).
The advice has been to give Natalie a daily intake of the minimum amount of Senna that causes a daily BM that Natalie cannot withhold. This works fine until we fall below the minimum threshold. Then Natalie's stool becomes slightly harder and she manages to withhold. My concern is that I cannot see how we can train her to stop withholding (especially at her very young age).
We are being told to ignore her when she does 'her thing' (as someone else put it in this bulletin board - I call it her 'poo dance'). This is so that she doesn't get any positive feedback for her behaviour. The intention is that our ignoring her will eventually cause her to change her behaviour and stop withholding. This we have now been doing for 6 months. And we just took her down to 6ml of Senna and unfortunately she has taken a turn the wrong way as she is withholding again. Obviously very 'dispiriting'.
I am worried that as she gets older we will have real problems 'potty training etc.' I feel as if ignoring her when she 'poo dances' will make it harder for us to talk to her about pooing and until we can talk to her we cannot stop her from withholding.
Is there anyone out there with any success stories on how they're child through this behaviour. I am particularly interested in anyone who had a baby as young as my daughter behaving like this and managed to coax them out of it. A positive story would be very encouraging I think.
Any thoughts/ideas/criticisms. Thanks
In Reply to: Stool Witholding posted by Jon on June 06, 2001 at 12:04:11:
always check for anal fissures. sometimes times this is the cause of stool witholding in kids and often overlooked. there need not be any blood to have a fissure.
In Reply to: Stool Witholding posted by Jon on June 06, 2001 at 12:04:11:
Hi, Jon.
Senna is a well known laxative!
Let us know how this well known approach (usually a failure) works.
If you have read the archives about this, you can judge for yourself.
Walt
In Reply to: Re: Stool Witholding posted by Walt Stoll on June 08, 2001 at 09:49:02:
I have read some of the archives but I haven't been able to find anything about Senna not working. Am I looking in the right place (I've been looking at the Archive BB - for the more recent months this year!).
Can you expand on your comment that Senna is usually a failure or at least point me to some text that does.
Thanks in advance
In Reply to: Re: Stool Witholding posted by Jon on June 11, 2001 at 12:31:09:
Hi, Jon - Please click on the link below, and you will find posts about senna (I hope, if I copied it right).
If you don't find it, write again. Raisa
In Reply to: Re: Stool Witholding posted by Jon on June 11, 2001 at 12:31:09:
Hi, Jon.
Anyone can make anyone have a bowel movement with sufficient laxative. This explains the popularity of laxitives in the allopathic tradition: anyone can see results from the doc's "medicine".
However, it will not resolve a stool witholding problem and will add a laxative habit to the already existing condition.
Walt
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