<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">re"> This is a weird question, but if anybody knows the answer to this, it would be you guys. Can a child be constipated and have fat malabsorption going on at the same time? In other words, doesn't fat malabsorption always present itself as a sort of shredded, floating stool and therefore acts nothing like being constipated (where the stool is solidly formed and sinks to the bottom of the toilet)? The reason why I ask is because we are going to try for the 72 hour fecal fat test again with my daughter (first time was a flop....long story), and if she is constipated at the time, and her stools look that way (formed and sink) does that mean she is currently NOT fat malabsorbing? I know many of you deal with constipation with CF. If your child is constipated, is their stool formed/sinks and they are not in a fat-malabsorbing stage? Or can they still be having malabsorption issues and be constipated at the same time? If so, what does the stool look like? Sorry about the weird, tangled question. I truly believe my daughter's pancreatic issues come and go a bit, and want to do the test at the right time...not at a time when her pancreas is not presenting symptoms. Does this make any sense? Thanks for your insight!
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quirky poop question
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">re"> This is a weird question, but if anybody knows the answer to this, it would be you guys. Can a child be constipated and have fat malabsorption going on at the same time? In other words, doesn't fat malabsorption always present itself as a sort of shredded, floating stool and therefore acts nothing like being constipated (where the stool is solidly formed and sinks to the bottom of the toilet)? The reason why I ask is because we are going to try for the 72 hour fecal fat test again with my daughter (first time was a flop....long story), and if she is constipated at the time, and her stools look that way (formed and sink) does that mean she is currently NOT fat malabsorbing? I know many of you deal with constipation with CF. If your child is constipated, is their stool formed/sinks and they are not in a fat-malabsorbing stage? Or can they still be having malabsorption issues and be constipated at the same time? If so, what does the stool look like? Sorry about the weird, tangled question. I truly believe my daughter's pancreatic issues come and go a bit, and want to do the test at the right time...not at a time when her pancreas is not presenting symptoms. Does this make any sense? Thanks for your insight!
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">re"> This is a weird question, but if anybody knows the answer to this, it would be you guys. Can a child be constipated and have fat malabsorption going on at the same time? In other words, doesn't fat malabsorption always present itself as a sort of shredded, floating stool and therefore acts nothing like being constipated (where the stool is solidly formed and sinks to the bottom of the toilet)? The reason why I ask is because we are going to try for the 72 hour fecal fat test again with my daughter (first time was a flop....long story), and if she is constipated at the time, and her stools look that way (formed and sink) does that mean she is currently NOT fat malabsorbing? I know many of you deal with constipation with CF. If your child is constipated, is their stool formed/sinks and they are not in a fat-malabsorbing stage? Or can they still be having malabsorption issues and be constipated at the same time? If so, what does the stool look like? Sorry about the weird, tangled question. I truly believe my daughter's pancreatic issues come and go a bit, and want to do the test at the right time...not at a time when her pancreas is not presenting symptoms. Does this make any sense? Thanks for your insight!
My daughter is mild PI and is chronically constipated. The only thing that has really helped her is enzymes. She had bowel resection in June where they removed 28 inches of her colon and still was constipated. Some of hers floats, some sinks, use to look like cotton. Now it looks a little more normal but full of thick mucus. Hope this helps some.
My daughter is mild PI and is chronically constipated. The only thing that has really helped her is enzymes. She had bowel resection in June where they removed 28 inches of her colon and still was constipated. Some of hers floats, some sinks, use to look like cotton. Now it looks a little more normal but full of thick mucus. Hope this helps some.
My daughter is mild PI and is chronically constipated. The only thing that has really helped her is enzymes. She had bowel resection in June where they removed 28 inches of her colon and still was constipated. Some of hers floats, some sinks, use to look like cotton. Now it looks a little more normal but full of thick mucus. Hope this helps some.
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Kaethe108
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With Fat malabsortion the stool is greasy. With our daughter it was always Kind of thin and it looked like you would have poured some Oil over her poo. But of course we have a Baby which mainly Drinks milk. So with older Children it might Look differently?
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Kaethe108
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With Fat malabsortion the stool is greasy. With our daughter it was always Kind of thin and it looked like you would have poured some Oil over her poo. But of course we have a Baby which mainly Drinks milk. So with older Children it might Look differently?
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Kaethe108
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With Fat malabsortion the stool is greasy. With our daughter it was always Kind of thin and it looked like you would have poured some Oil over her poo. But of course we have a Baby which mainly Drinks milk. So with older Children it might Look differently?
The poop issue always drove me nuts when DS was a baby. He did become constipated --- a lot of stool in the colon, but would still have very loose stools -- whatever would seep thru the cracks so to speak. Other times he'd stop stooling altogether and we'd have to give him a laxative and then his stools would be very well formed, albeit sometimes encased in a film of mucus. Sorry TMI. For the most part his stools were fluffy like frosting unless he became constipated.
A friend of mine's daughter who has the same mutation, but wasn't diagnosed until she was 1 1/2 years old was always constipated -- PI, but had hard stools. She was put on miralax.
A friend of mine's daughter who has the same mutation, but wasn't diagnosed until she was 1 1/2 years old was always constipated -- PI, but had hard stools. She was put on miralax.
The poop issue always drove me nuts when DS was a baby. He did become constipated --- a lot of stool in the colon, but would still have very loose stools -- whatever would seep thru the cracks so to speak. Other times he'd stop stooling altogether and we'd have to give him a laxative and then his stools would be very well formed, albeit sometimes encased in a film of mucus. Sorry TMI. For the most part his stools were fluffy like frosting unless he became constipated.
A friend of mine's daughter who has the same mutation, but wasn't diagnosed until she was 1 1/2 years old was always constipated -- PI, but had hard stools. She was put on miralax.
A friend of mine's daughter who has the same mutation, but wasn't diagnosed until she was 1 1/2 years old was always constipated -- PI, but had hard stools. She was put on miralax.