Poor baby Livvy has had some loose stools for about a month consistently and tries to go poop 15 times a day. She had her stool tested for parasites and Ecoli and that came back clear. The ped referred us to a pediatric GI.
From the moment we walked in the exam room she freaked - crying and wanting to leave. I think she remembered from her 2 yr well-check up that she got a shot. :( We discussed her timeline with milk introduction around a year, her eating habits now, etc. The doctor did a quick abdominal exam while Livvy was crying on my lap and when the doc pushed on the large intestinal area she squirmed. She said she felt a ball or something. She did a quick rectal probe and felt a clay-like poop mass right above her colon. She estimated it to be about the size of a golf ball! The runny poop is water that goes around the lump and gives her chronic diaper rash.
Livvy recovered after she got dressed and was happy to get her sticker and girlie bracelet!
First thing is she'll need an enema (liquid in a bottle) that we'll give her starting tomorrow (Saturday morning) along with Milk of Magnesia to break up this mass. Once it's cleared out, she'll be an a prescription stool softener 3 times a day for a few months to allow her colon to repair itself since it's been stretched out for so long.
The "cleanout" should take a few hrs to a day - we're hoping! I bet she'll feel like a million bucks when that thing is gone. She wants her dairy cut down to one cup of soy milk and one cup of yogurt a day or PediaSure for extra calories and nutrients since she's a picky eater. So far she enjoys the samples we were given!
I'll update soon as to the results!
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