FOLLOW & Comment Guides for the bundle on; 🩺 prep for GP visit 💊 taking Macrogols 💦 water tips Constipation in children can be hard to recognise and it can take a long time to treat. But it can be treated. It can be confusing because a child might be passing small amounts of poo frequently and also maybe soiling themselves. It may appear that child is doing this on purpose and is just too lazy to sit on the toilet but in the constipation child this soiling can in fact be overflow diarrhoea, there is a backlog of poo in the rectum will stretch and stretch and stretch to accommodate this backlog more fresher liquidy poo will leak down around this backlog of poo. A child has no control over this and will not feel it. ‼️if you are concerned about your child’s bowels the check in with your GP. Your child may be constipated and remember the first line in treatment for constipation in children is the use of an osmotic laxatives - fluids and diet will not treat constipation in a child. A...