Chronically constipated 1 year old

amother

Sienna

Wed, May 13 2015, 11:45 am

Any ideas? DC drinks plenty of water, a little black cherry juice, nurses, eats lots of fruits and vegetables, prunes. Gets constipated for a couple of days at a time.

summer0808

Wed, May 13 2015, 12:11 pm

Try pear juice. Produced by Beechnut or Gerber and sold usually in the baby food section.

STMommy

Wed, May 13 2015, 1:21 pm

My DD had this too and it was also bad enough that her diet, which should have supported healthy BM's, was not enough of a solution - my doctor recommended mineral oil - you should look into that.

amother

Cobalt

Wed, May 13 2015, 2:16 pm

my son has been constipated most of the time since he started solids (for over 2 yrs now). my dr (I just switched) recommended using miralax (or normalax in israel).
my son is 3, I give him half a cap full. and from the day he started taking it, he has been 'making' nicely and is not constipated
I was amazed and was soooo happy to finally find something to do for him.

and prune juice did not work for him. I was giving him suppositories (liquid glycerin pedialax) when it got really bad, but hated doing it.