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aspergers and chronic constipation

puffin
over 11 years ago

Hi all,

just wondering if anyone else out there has a problem with a child on the spectrum and constipation issues.  my son has had chronic constipation controled by medicine, currently Dulcolax since he was three! he is now six and although mainly under control with the medicine i worry what long term effect this could have.  his diet is ok, could be better but he is a picky eater, i guess it goes hand in hand with Aspergers!  He was ill with a really bad cold last week missed one day of trying for the toilet and went to day nine of no go!  He was in tears scared of trying, really upsetting for me we have this two - four times each year usually following a bout of illness, but he is on Dulcolax constantly normally low dosage until these occasions occur!  strangley my husband who we now recognise as having Aspergers suffered the same thing as a child.

I am getting my son refferred back to the hospital for his constipation as the medicine does not seem to work as well as it use to, not surprisingly!  But i wonder if he needs more help not just medicine as it seems to me it is mind over matter with my son, On day seven of having not gone to the toilet he said " i think day ten will be the day, it was lucky before"!  so he seems to hold on till then !  What can i do.  he just does not seem to understand the problem.  He may also be very sensitive to pain not the usual under sensitivity noted with Aspergers. 

Any advice much appreciated.

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  • over 9 years ago

    My son is now 16 and has had problems since the age of about 8 years old.  He went from being very regular to not going, sometimes for 3-4 weeks.  Eventually the laxatives that he had been on for years (would not advise this by the way, but was ill informed by a G.P.) stopped working.  Has since been on a combination of two different types but I do not give him them daily as I feel they may have already damaged him and he is incapable of going without a laxative.  I leave him for as long as I feel is possible to try to encourage him to have a bowel movement on his own but it is a massive worry and I usually end up giving him the laxatives for 4 days, then he goes. He doesn't seem in any pain but does not communicate very well and seems to have a very high pain threshhold. A warm bath seems to help.  

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  • over 9 years ago

    My son is now 16 and has had problems since the age of about 8 years old.  He went from being very regular to not going, sometimes for 3-4 weeks.  Eventually the laxatives that he had been on for years (would not advise this by the way, but was ill informed by a G.P.) stopped working.  Has since been on a combination of two different types but I do not give him them daily as I feel they may have already damaged him and he is incapable of going without a laxative.  I leave him for as long as I feel is possible to try to encourage him to have a bowel movement on his own but it is a massive worry and I usually end up giving him the laxatives for 4 days, then he goes. He doesn't seem in any pain but does not communicate very well and seems to have a very high pain threshhold. A warm bath seems to help.  

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