Please help - I'm at my wits end and very confused. My son, (aged 3 and 3 quarters,) has been soiling himself for almost a month now. He does just a tiny bit, enough to smear his pants and smell, but seems not to know he needed a poo. He's been potty trained successfully for well over a year, so i don't know why he seems not to recognise the feeling now. When I sit him on a potty or toilet he doesn't/can't go. He will soil 3 or 4 times in one day, which is hard work with cleaning him up and keeping on top of washing pile. We have been to the GP 3 times now, the first time they said 'it might be leakage round some impacted poo, have some lactulose to soften everything and it will sort itself out.' The other two times they happily admitted to having no idea! My son is still on the lactulose, and if we forget or decide to try without, his poo does seem harder than it should be. But generally taking it or not makes no difference to the soiling.
He has a good diet, with plenty of fruit and veg, and has had no changes to his diet - is there anything else that could be causing him constipation? Does too much dairy do this?
What else could be causing all the poo accidents?
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Is there anything else that causes constipation in children apart from diet?
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linspins · 03/11/2013 19:37
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