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10 month old severly constipated and now has fissure tears! HELP!
My dd Malak is now 10 months old, she had her open heart surgery 7 weeks ago. She has been on a lot of medications, but now we have weaned her off all except lasix (diuretic). For the last 3 weeks she has been suffering from severe constipation and I am at my wits end on what to do to get her regular!
I took her to the pead last weekend and she said to change her formula and only give her foods that help with relieving constipation, like prunes, pears, plums, apricots, etc...... and to have her sip on water from a sippy cup through out the day. Well for a week we have followed her advise but NO improvement to her constipation! She now has a cpl of hemorroids and a few little fissure tears!! She is in agony when it is time to POO!
I resorted to giving her duphalac to help her out and it did work after two doses over two days. But today we are back to constipation UGH. I dont want to keep giving her the laxative, I am afraid she would become dependent on it?????
Because of all her surgeries and hospital stays, she is not crawling, pulling up etc... so she is not very active yet. Maybe this could be one reason? Please give me advise on what has worked for your babies who have been constipated! I know the Lasix can play a part in the constipation, but her dose was cut in half last week when she visited her cardiologist. Also, I gave her a warm bath today which is the first one since her surgery as we were not allowed to get her incision very wet for the first 6 to 7 weeks. She had just been getting sponge baths until today. Hopefully the warm baths will help???
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