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Saint LouisReporter, The New York TimesA pediatrician in the sidebar makes exactly this point that Miralax is useful to treat kids with impacted stool and certainly ones who end up with encopresis. But there are children on Miralax who are recommended it like "candy" as one doctor told me. These parents aren't counseled by pediatricians about dietary changes, or constipating foods like milk. Indeed one mother was putting her daughter's two capfuls of PEG into chocolate milk every morning. Some pediatricians I interviewed didn't even know that FDA had concerns in 2009 about PEG's safety long-term or the fact the kids are given adult doses. They also didn't know or inform parents that the FDA has looked into neurological adverse events that had been reported to the FDA. Certainly this is information parents deserve to know.