Thejudy68 recommends an apple a day to keep the doctor away. He suggests avoiding bananas and there is some scientific evidence to support this. Jimmy06669 recommends pears, peaches, prunes and apricots. The best way to take fibre is naturally, by increasing the amount in your diet. It's not unusual for this to start at school and often begins with children avoiding the perils of the school toilets and waiting until they are in the familiar surroundings of their own home.įibre adds volume to the stools and helps them pass through the body. This means there's a problem with the way the muscles of the bowel work rather than any serious underlying disease. However, considering her tender years, her story, and the absence of worrying features, it's likely that Daa00906 has what is called functional constipation. Such features would suggest she needs to see a doctor sooner rather than later. Intestinal obstruction is a medical emergency which requires immediate medical attention.ĭaa00906 also doesn't mention other 'red flag' signs (features that would alert a doctor that there was a serious problem) such as a blown-out (distended) tummy, severe pain passing a stool, bleeding from the rectum, slime (mucus) in the stools, or weight loss. If she had previously been OK but was suddenly unable to open her bowels for five days this could be a feature of intestinal obstruction, especially if she was also unable to pass wind, developed severe abdominal pain, and started vomiting.
I'm also assuming that this is a long-term pattern for Daa00906. Such conditions (such as abnormal development of the spine affecting the nerve supply to the bowel) are normally picked up shortly after birth. The fact that her problems started at the age of 10 suggests that she doesn't have the sort of developmental condition that one needs to think about with constipation in children. Daa00906's difficulties with passing a large stool, needing to go less than three times a week and a feeling of incomplete emptying would certainly come into the medical definition of constipation.Īt 15, Daa00906 is in that hinterland between childhood and adulthood. She had also thought about having an enema.Ĭonstipation means different things to different people. She wondered whether a doctor could help her but was scared they might suggest a colonoscopy. She realises she should be eating more healthily but feels it's too late for changes in her diet to make much of a difference. Wondering if there's anything i can do now? - daa00906, Stool is too large and hard to passĭaa00906 doesn't find her mum very supportive and dreads talking to her about her constipation. I haven't gone in almost five days and I feel very backed up. The stool is very large and she feels 'backed up', but she's terrified of pushing too hard in case she gets a rectal prolapse. She now only gets the urge to open her bowels about twice a week, and has to strain really hard to get even a small amount of poop out. This progressed to being anxious about any public toilets. She developed anxiety about using the school toilets and tended to postpone going to the loo until she got home.
Daa00906's problems started when she was 10 years old.
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