Ellie was having some difficulty yesterday with her BMs...she's "cleared" most of it, but the consistency wasn't such that I would think indicates blockage. I'm not concerned about a blockage at this point, but I am concerned about the consistency of BM that does cause a blockage. If she had a difficult time passing what I saw yesterday (clay-like, formed, not hard), would I expect different with an actual blockage? From my experience with animals and obstipation, stool becomes extremely dry as it sits in the colon...what actually occurs with cystic fibrosis obstipation episodes? Looking for your personal experience or other...
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Ellie was having some difficulty yesterday with her BMs...she's "cleared" most of it, but the consistency wasn't such that I would think indicates blockage. I'm not concerned about a blockage at this point, but I am concerned about the consistency of BM that does cause a blockage. If she had a difficult time passing what I saw yesterday (clay-like, formed, not hard), would I expect different with an actual blockage? From my experience with animals and obstipation, stool becomes extremely dry as it sits in the colon...what actually occurs with cystic fibrosis obstipation episodes? Looking for your personal experience or other...
Ellie was having some difficulty yesterday with her BMs...she's "cleared" most of it, but the consistency wasn't such that I would think indicates blockage. I'm not concerned about a blockage at this point, but I am concerned about the consistency of BM that does cause a blockage. If she had a difficult time passing what I saw yesterday (clay-like, formed, not hard), would I expect different with an actual blockage? From my experience with animals and obstipation, stool becomes extremely dry as it sits in the colon...what actually occurs with cystic fibrosis obstipation episodes? Looking for your personal experience or other...
Ellie was having some difficulty yesterday with her BMs...she's "cleared" most of it, but the consistency wasn't such that I would think indicates blockage. I'm not concerned about a blockage at this point, but I am concerned about the consistency of BM that does cause a blockage. If she had a difficult time passing what I saw yesterday (clay-like, formed, not hard), would I expect different with an actual blockage? From my experience with animals and obstipation, stool becomes extremely dry as it sits in the colon...what actually occurs with cystic fibrosis obstipation episodes? Looking for your personal experience or other...
Ellie was having some difficulty yesterday with her BMs...she's "cleared" most of it, but the consistency wasn't such that I would think indicates blockage. I'm not concerned about a blockage at this point, but I am concerned about the consistency of BM that does cause a blockage. If she had a difficult time passing what I saw yesterday (clay-like, formed, not hard), would I expect different with an actual blockage? From my experience with animals and obstipation, stool becomes extremely dry as it sits in the colon...what actually occurs with cystic fibrosis obstipation episodes? Looking for your personal experience or other...
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I think it depends on how much blockage there is. With Alyssa's issues which were not real blockages, she got impacted and we saw no stooling at all.
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Mommafirst
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I think it depends on how much blockage there is. With Alyssa's issues which were not real blockages, she got impacted and we saw no stooling at all.
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Mommafirst
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I think it depends on how much blockage there is. With Alyssa's issues which were not real blockages, she got impacted and we saw no stooling at all.
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Mommafirst
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I think it depends on how much blockage there is. With Alyssa's issues which were not real blockages, she got impacted and we saw no stooling at all.
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Mommafirst
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I think it depends on how much blockage there is. With Alyssa's issues which were not real blockages, she got impacted and we saw no stooling at all.
As someone whose dealt with a child whose had constipation issues and more recently an obstruction, unfortunately we were blind sided.
When DS was a baby, there were times when he'd have really loose stools, but his eating would decrease and his tummy would get hard and distended. We were told he was constipated -- lots of stool in the colon and instructed to try milk of magnesia to get him cleaned out. And after a day or so, he's usually have some fairly larger, harder stools that sometimes looked like they were encased in mucus.
When DS switched to whole milk we had issues with dry, larger hard stools.
And then he was fine, I'd thrown out milk of mag a couple years ago after we stopped using it.
More recently, DS had a bowel obstruction, but it didn't follow the usual norm for meconium equivilant. He got sick one night and the next morning woke me up 'cuz he had to poop. Threw up off and on and we assumed it was a stomach bug. The next morning, I picked up some milk of mag thinking he was constipate, obstructed, but he threw that up and later that night we took him to the ER 'cuz he hadn't stooled since the morning before and was in pain. Xrays showed his colon and the lower half of his small intestine were EMPTY, so it wasn't a normal blockage. Turned out in his case he had issues with surgical scars/adhesions that kept food, enzymes etc. from proceeding.
When DS was a baby, there were times when he'd have really loose stools, but his eating would decrease and his tummy would get hard and distended. We were told he was constipated -- lots of stool in the colon and instructed to try milk of magnesia to get him cleaned out. And after a day or so, he's usually have some fairly larger, harder stools that sometimes looked like they were encased in mucus.
When DS switched to whole milk we had issues with dry, larger hard stools.
And then he was fine, I'd thrown out milk of mag a couple years ago after we stopped using it.
More recently, DS had a bowel obstruction, but it didn't follow the usual norm for meconium equivilant. He got sick one night and the next morning woke me up 'cuz he had to poop. Threw up off and on and we assumed it was a stomach bug. The next morning, I picked up some milk of mag thinking he was constipate, obstructed, but he threw that up and later that night we took him to the ER 'cuz he hadn't stooled since the morning before and was in pain. Xrays showed his colon and the lower half of his small intestine were EMPTY, so it wasn't a normal blockage. Turned out in his case he had issues with surgical scars/adhesions that kept food, enzymes etc. from proceeding.
As someone whose dealt with a child whose had constipation issues and more recently an obstruction, unfortunately we were blind sided.
When DS was a baby, there were times when he'd have really loose stools, but his eating would decrease and his tummy would get hard and distended. We were told he was constipated -- lots of stool in the colon and instructed to try milk of magnesia to get him cleaned out. And after a day or so, he's usually have some fairly larger, harder stools that sometimes looked like they were encased in mucus.
When DS switched to whole milk we had issues with dry, larger hard stools.
And then he was fine, I'd thrown out milk of mag a couple years ago after we stopped using it.
More recently, DS had a bowel obstruction, but it didn't follow the usual norm for meconium equivilant. He got sick one night and the next morning woke me up 'cuz he had to poop. Threw up off and on and we assumed it was a stomach bug. The next morning, I picked up some milk of mag thinking he was constipate, obstructed, but he threw that up and later that night we took him to the ER 'cuz he hadn't stooled since the morning before and was in pain. Xrays showed his colon and the lower half of his small intestine were EMPTY, so it wasn't a normal blockage. Turned out in his case he had issues with surgical scars/adhesions that kept food, enzymes etc. from proceeding.
When DS was a baby, there were times when he'd have really loose stools, but his eating would decrease and his tummy would get hard and distended. We were told he was constipated -- lots of stool in the colon and instructed to try milk of magnesia to get him cleaned out. And after a day or so, he's usually have some fairly larger, harder stools that sometimes looked like they were encased in mucus.
When DS switched to whole milk we had issues with dry, larger hard stools.
And then he was fine, I'd thrown out milk of mag a couple years ago after we stopped using it.
More recently, DS had a bowel obstruction, but it didn't follow the usual norm for meconium equivilant. He got sick one night and the next morning woke me up 'cuz he had to poop. Threw up off and on and we assumed it was a stomach bug. The next morning, I picked up some milk of mag thinking he was constipate, obstructed, but he threw that up and later that night we took him to the ER 'cuz he hadn't stooled since the morning before and was in pain. Xrays showed his colon and the lower half of his small intestine were EMPTY, so it wasn't a normal blockage. Turned out in his case he had issues with surgical scars/adhesions that kept food, enzymes etc. from proceeding.
As someone whose dealt with a child whose had constipation issues and more recently an obstruction, unfortunately we were blind sided.
When DS was a baby, there were times when he'd have really loose stools, but his eating would decrease and his tummy would get hard and distended. We were told he was constipated -- lots of stool in the colon and instructed to try milk of magnesia to get him cleaned out. And after a day or so, he's usually have some fairly larger, harder stools that sometimes looked like they were encased in mucus.
When DS switched to whole milk we had issues with dry, larger hard stools.
And then he was fine, I'd thrown out milk of mag a couple years ago after we stopped using it.
More recently, DS had a bowel obstruction, but it didn't follow the usual norm for meconium equivilant. He got sick one night and the next morning woke me up 'cuz he had to poop. Threw up off and on and we assumed it was a stomach bug. The next morning, I picked up some milk of mag thinking he was constipate, obstructed, but he threw that up and later that night we took him to the ER 'cuz he hadn't stooled since the morning before and was in pain. Xrays showed his colon and the lower half of his small intestine were EMPTY, so it wasn't a normal blockage. Turned out in his case he had issues with surgical scars/adhesions that kept food, enzymes etc. from proceeding.
When DS was a baby, there were times when he'd have really loose stools, but his eating would decrease and his tummy would get hard and distended. We were told he was constipated -- lots of stool in the colon and instructed to try milk of magnesia to get him cleaned out. And after a day or so, he's usually have some fairly larger, harder stools that sometimes looked like they were encased in mucus.
When DS switched to whole milk we had issues with dry, larger hard stools.
And then he was fine, I'd thrown out milk of mag a couple years ago after we stopped using it.
More recently, DS had a bowel obstruction, but it didn't follow the usual norm for meconium equivilant. He got sick one night and the next morning woke me up 'cuz he had to poop. Threw up off and on and we assumed it was a stomach bug. The next morning, I picked up some milk of mag thinking he was constipate, obstructed, but he threw that up and later that night we took him to the ER 'cuz he hadn't stooled since the morning before and was in pain. Xrays showed his colon and the lower half of his small intestine were EMPTY, so it wasn't a normal blockage. Turned out in his case he had issues with surgical scars/adhesions that kept food, enzymes etc. from proceeding.
As someone whose dealt with a child whose had constipation issues and more recently an obstruction, unfortunately we were blind sided.
When DS was a baby, there were times when he'd have really loose stools, but his eating would decrease and his tummy would get hard and distended. We were told he was constipated -- lots of stool in the colon and instructed to try milk of magnesia to get him cleaned out. And after a day or so, he's usually have some fairly larger, harder stools that sometimes looked like they were encased in mucus.
When DS switched to whole milk we had issues with dry, larger hard stools.
And then he was fine, I'd thrown out milk of mag a couple years ago after we stopped using it.
More recently, DS had a bowel obstruction, but it didn't follow the usual norm for meconium equivilant. He got sick one night and the next morning woke me up 'cuz he had to poop. Threw up off and on and we assumed it was a stomach bug. The next morning, I picked up some milk of mag thinking he was constipate, obstructed, but he threw that up and later that night we took him to the ER 'cuz he hadn't stooled since the morning before and was in pain. Xrays showed his colon and the lower half of his small intestine were EMPTY, so it wasn't a normal blockage. Turned out in his case he had issues with surgical scars/adhesions that kept food, enzymes etc. from proceeding.
When DS was a baby, there were times when he'd have really loose stools, but his eating would decrease and his tummy would get hard and distended. We were told he was constipated -- lots of stool in the colon and instructed to try milk of magnesia to get him cleaned out. And after a day or so, he's usually have some fairly larger, harder stools that sometimes looked like they were encased in mucus.
When DS switched to whole milk we had issues with dry, larger hard stools.
And then he was fine, I'd thrown out milk of mag a couple years ago after we stopped using it.
More recently, DS had a bowel obstruction, but it didn't follow the usual norm for meconium equivilant. He got sick one night and the next morning woke me up 'cuz he had to poop. Threw up off and on and we assumed it was a stomach bug. The next morning, I picked up some milk of mag thinking he was constipate, obstructed, but he threw that up and later that night we took him to the ER 'cuz he hadn't stooled since the morning before and was in pain. Xrays showed his colon and the lower half of his small intestine were EMPTY, so it wasn't a normal blockage. Turned out in his case he had issues with surgical scars/adhesions that kept food, enzymes etc. from proceeding.
As someone whose dealt with a child whose had constipation issues and more recently an obstruction, unfortunately we were blind sided.
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<br />When DS was a baby, there were times when he'd have really loose stools, but his eating would decrease and his tummy would get hard and distended. We were told he was constipated -- lots of stool in the colon and instructed to try milk of magnesia to get him cleaned out. And after a day or so, he's usually have some fairly larger, harder stools that sometimes looked like they were encased in mucus.
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<br />When DS switched to whole milk we had issues with dry, larger hard stools.
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<br />And then he was fine, I'd thrown out milk of mag a couple years ago after we stopped using it.
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<br />More recently, DS had a bowel obstruction, but it didn't follow the usual norm for meconium equivilant. He got sick one night and the next morning woke me up 'cuz he had to poop. Threw up off and on and we assumed it was a stomach bug. The next morning, I picked up some milk of mag thinking he was constipate, obstructed, but he threw that up and later that night we took him to the ER 'cuz he hadn't stooled since the morning before and was in pain. Xrays showed his colon and the lower half of his small intestine were EMPTY, so it wasn't a normal blockage. Turned out in his case he had issues with surgical scars/adhesions that kept food, enzymes etc. from proceeding.
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<br />When DS was a baby, there were times when he'd have really loose stools, but his eating would decrease and his tummy would get hard and distended. We were told he was constipated -- lots of stool in the colon and instructed to try milk of magnesia to get him cleaned out. And after a day or so, he's usually have some fairly larger, harder stools that sometimes looked like they were encased in mucus.
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<br />When DS switched to whole milk we had issues with dry, larger hard stools.
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<br />And then he was fine, I'd thrown out milk of mag a couple years ago after we stopped using it.
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<br />More recently, DS had a bowel obstruction, but it didn't follow the usual norm for meconium equivilant. He got sick one night and the next morning woke me up 'cuz he had to poop. Threw up off and on and we assumed it was a stomach bug. The next morning, I picked up some milk of mag thinking he was constipate, obstructed, but he threw that up and later that night we took him to the ER 'cuz he hadn't stooled since the morning before and was in pain. Xrays showed his colon and the lower half of his small intestine were EMPTY, so it wasn't a normal blockage. Turned out in his case he had issues with surgical scars/adhesions that kept food, enzymes etc. from proceeding.
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