Re: BIG problems with constipation

[Guest guest]

My little one (5years old)has been potty training for several months and has

been doing good with the pee-pee part but when she seemed to start holding #

2 she started going less and less (#2). For the last 3 weeks it has been

ONCE a week and the 1st week was with a supossitory. the 2nd on her own and

the 3rd suppository again. Plus the Doc has put her on a stool softener. Is

this an autistic thing? When does this become dangerous?

Any info or advice please. Send direct so we wont tie up GF/CF.

Thank you

Leonor

[Guest guest]

Dear Leonora,

I would estimate that more than 2 days is dangerous in

the sense that the stools inside the body are also

excreting bad materials (poisons) to the system, there

is headache, paleness, dizzyness ... all of us have

had constipation to know the feeling.

For our son, we used first suppositories but they hurt

in a way and he totally refused. We have in the market

kind of a soft plastic tube injection, which is

injected inside and the bowel movement happens in 5-10

minutes. We used to give this every 2 days if he did

not do by himself. Oral stool softener products did

not work for us.

The problem must be due to the bad microbiology which

is part of the theory of autism and diet: yeast,

bacteria, probably parasites, and non-existing good

bacteria.

For us, we have got real relief through the diet and

Emgesan - a magnesium product, which makes the stool

really loose in 1-2 days of intake. Perhaps you could

find similar in the US, a nutritionist should know.

Hang in there,

Kati

--- leonora ellison moe@...> wrote:

For the last

> 3 weeks it has been

> ONCE a week and the 1st week was with a supossitory.

> the 2nd on her own and

> the 3rd suppository again. Plus the Doc has put her

> on a stool softener. Is

> this an autistic thing? When does this become

> dangerous?

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[Guest guest]

Hello Leonor,

Boy, do I feel for you. We went through this with my son last year

when he was 5. He'd been peeing in the toilet for years but had kept

asking for a diaper to poop. We finally told him it was time to

switch to the toilet. What a terrrible time. He did the withholding

thing, too. My dr. (a regular ped., not an autism specialist) told me

not to worry about it, healthwise. I worried anyway, but decided not

to intervene with suppositories or anything. went a week

without pooping and was practically green in the face. I won't go

into the whole thing here, email me privately if you like. But the

interesting thing is, when he finally had to poop so badly that he

was willing to use the toilet, he pooped 5 times in two hours. And

for several hours afterwards HE WAS ABSOLUTELY NORMAL good eye

contact, affection, cooperation, good fine motor skills, EVERYTHING.

I had been expressing my own colostrum for him during this time, so I

know that is part of it, but somehow, the clearing out of the poop

was part of it, too.

Good luck and email privately if you wish.

Betty, mom to , Larkin and Ian-

-- In GFCFKids@y..., " leonora ellison " wrote:

> My little one (5years old)has been potty training for several months

and has

> been doing good with the pee-pee part but when she seemed to start

holding #

> 2 she started going less and less (#2). For the last 3 weeks it has

been

> ONCE a week and the 1st week was with a supossitory. the 2nd on her

own and

> the 3rd suppository again. Plus the Doc has put her on a stool

softener. Is

> this an autistic thing? When does this become dangerous?

> Any info or advice please. Send direct so we wont tie up GF/CF.

> Thank you

> Leonor

[Guest guest]

This is the first I've read of " expressing your own Colostrum " . What

is the theory here? How do you go about doing this?

Thanks

Michele in Md

> > My little one (5years old)has been potty training for several

months

> and has

> > been doing good with the pee-pee part but when she seemed to

start

> holding #

> > 2 she started going less and less (#2). For the last 3 weeks it

has

> been

> > ONCE a week and the 1st week was with a supossitory. the 2nd on

her

> own and

> > the 3rd suppository again. Plus the Doc has put her on a stool

> softener. Is

> > this an autistic thing? When does this become dangerous?

> > Any info or advice please. Send direct so we wont tie up GF/CF.

> > Thank you

> > Leonor

[Guest guest]

Hi Michele,

I had very little theory--just a gut feeling, so to speak. I was

expecting my third child and my colostrum had just come in. This was

before the diet, so there was no casein concern. I knew that

colostrum is very good for the immune system (also, I believe it has

a slight laxatice effect--I'm not sure about that but I think so--it

helps newborns eliminate all their stored-up poop, their meconium) I

thought it couldn't hurt and might have some positive effect.

In considering expressing it for him, I bore in mind that in native

cultures where long nursing is the norm, older children who are still

on the breast while their mothers are pregnant do get a second round

of colostrum for a few weeks or months (depending on when the woman's

colostrum comes in to replace the milk). So, thinking that nature may

have intended for children to get colostrum more than once in their

lives, I decided to give it a try. It happened to coincide with the

potty training (this was truly coincidence). Since my own colostrum is

a thing of the past, I do now give Kirkman's casein-free

colostrum. It helps him TREMENDOUSLY. I don't know exactly why, but I

believe it may be because of (A) anti-fungal properties, ( high

potency nutrition, and © IgA (something I don't know much about but

have heard that colostrum is a good source of. IgA helps in lining the

gut).

Well, that's all.

Betty

- In GFCFKids@y..., cozmom2001@y... wrote:

> This is the first I've read of " expressing your own Colostrum " .

What

> is the theory here? How do you go about doing this?

> Thanks

> Michele in Md

>

>

>

> > > My little one (5years old)has been potty training for several

> months

> > and has

> > > been doing good with the pee-pee part but when she seemed to

> start

> > holding #

> > > 2 she started going less and less (#2). For the last 3 weeks it

> has

> > been

> > > ONCE a week and the 1st week was with a supossitory. the 2nd on

> her

> > own and

> > > the 3rd suppository again. Plus the Doc has put her on a stool

> > softener. Is

> > > this an autistic thing? When does this become dangerous?

> > > Any info or advice please. Send direct so we wont tie up GF/CF.

> > > Thank you

> > > Leonor