Not constipated, but holds it in!! What do I do??? Help!! Any suggestions???

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My 5 year old autistic boy used to have a tremendous problem with being

constipated (hard

chemically smelling stools), but in the last year with this diet, his stools are

soft and " normal "

looking. HOWEVER, he refused to go to the bathroom without help and now cannot

go poo-

poo unless I give him suppositories or baby enemas EVERY time! What have I

done? If I hold

off and wait, he will not go for 5 days and everything is worse! Am I doing him

more harm

than good? I have been giving him suppositories at the same time every evening

and he goes

with sadness and we do this routine every day! Any suggestions? The stool

looks great, but I

can't get it into his brain that he needs to push it out every day. I feel so

bad if I have made

him addicted to this and he ends up 18 years old with someone having to give him

a

suppository daily. Please please please...any advice???

[Guest guest]

I had this problem with my daughter when she was 2...I started giving

her prizes for pooing and things improved sooooo much. I'm sure you

probably thought of this already, but maybe make it like a game-perhaps

finding things your son loves(my daughter loves collections of any kind

and I got some plastic colored coins from staples and we taped them up

like a rainbow on the wall every time she went-in addition to a small

99 cents store prize). I feel your pain...

susie hansen

Not constipated, but holds it in!! What do I

do??? Help!! Any suggestions???

My 5 year old autistic boy used to have a tremendous problem with being

constipated (hard

chemically smelling stools), but in the last year with this diet, his

stools are soft and " normal "

looking. HOWEVER, he refused to go to the bathroom without help and now

cannot go poo-

poo unless I give him suppositories or baby enemas EVERY time! What

have I done? If I hold

off and wait, he will not go for 5 days and everything is worse! Am I

doing him more harm

than good? I have been giving him suppositories at the same time every

evening and he goes

with sadness and we do this routine every day! Any suggestions? The

stool looks great, but I

can't get it into his brain that he needs to push it out every day. I

feel so bad if I have made

him addicted to this and he ends up 18 years old with someone having to

give him a

suppository daily. Please please please...any advice???

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This little boy is non verbal and doesn't get excited about any kind of toy or

reinforcement, really...so difficult...he just gets better when I let him off

the potty. His

teachers are taking him every 1/2 hour right now for 6 minutes at a time in

hopes to habit

train him, but he has NEVER gone #2 for them. I just put him on every night at

the same

time, always ending up with suppositories...

>

> I had this problem with my daughter when she was 2...I started giving

> her prizes for pooing and things improved sooooo much. I'm sure you

> probably thought of this already, but maybe make it like a game-perhaps

> finding things your son loves(my daughter loves collections of any kind

> and I got some plastic colored coins from staples and we taped them up

> like a rainbow on the wall every time she went-in addition to a small

> 99 cents store prize). I feel your pain...

>

> susie hansen

>

>

> Not constipated, but holds it in!! What do I

> do??? Help!! Any suggestions???

>

>

>

>

>

>

> My 5 year old autistic boy used to have a tremendous problem with being

> constipated (hard

> chemically smelling stools), but in the last year with this diet, his

> stools are soft and " normal "

> looking. HOWEVER, he refused to go to the bathroom without help and now

> cannot go poo-

> poo unless I give him suppositories or baby enemas EVERY time! What

> have I done? If I hold

> off and wait, he will not go for 5 days and everything is worse! Am I

> doing him more harm

> than good? I have been giving him suppositories at the same time every

> evening and he goes

> with sadness and we do this routine every day! Any suggestions? The

> stool looks great, but I

> can't get it into his brain that he needs to push it out every day. I

> feel so bad if I have made

> him addicted to this and he ends up 18 years old with someone having to

> give him a

> suppository daily. Please please please...any advice???

>

>

>

>

>

> ________________________________________________________________________

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[Guest guest]

Hi Rhonda,

<<This little boy is non verbal and doesn't get excited about any

kind of toy or reinforcement, really...so difficult...he just gets

better when I let him off the potty. His

> teachers are taking him every 1/2 hour right now for 6 minutes at a

time in hopes to habit > train him, but he has NEVER gone #2 for

them. I just put him on every night at the same

> time, always ending up with suppositories... >>

Have you tried the constipation protocol. If not that may help you

get him going on his own eventually and off the enemas.

http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info/knowledge_base/kb/constipation

..htm

http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info/knowledge_base/kb/constipation

_continued.htm

If you can't get them to work go to

http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info/ and then go to

the " Knowledge base " then go to " A to F " and then go

to " Constipation " . You should also have a look at " Constipation -

continued. "

Sheila, SCD Feb. 2001, UC 23yrs, PCOD 22yrs

mom of and