I’ve always done prunes in wheetbix or yogurt! Cloudy pear juice is good too!

Try fruit and water intake. Otherwise there’s some stuff at the pharmacy that makes it easier. It coats the stools and helps them out easier. I’ve forgotten what it’s called though but the pharmacist should know

Try increasing her fruit intake – that might help.

Water, water, water. Any fiber you add should go with an increase of water intake otherwise it has the opposite effect.
My eldest daughter has had lost of constipation and I went to the Gp when adjustments in diet didn’t help. Gp prescribed first Lactulose then Laxoberal. With Laxoberal her stool became too runny and she didn’t have control any more. So then I went back to just water increase.
My youngest has currently constipation. She has Down Syndrome and it’s hard to get her to drink enough water. I encourage it by drinking water before doing a reward activity. Besides that she gets plenty of fruit, soaked prunes, seeded breads and fiber in her diet. I tried Lactulose and use at the moment Movicol Junior.

use water alot and giver some yogurt every day it really works

A little brown sugar dissolved in warm water is meant to work well. Hope you’ve sorted this as it doesn’t sound good

Lots of fruit. And maybe put her back in nappies for a while to take the pressure off?

It doesn’t sound like she is constipated as you say she holds it in, which is probably what’s causing the constipation. Brown sugar in warm water works well for this tho

Kiwi fruit helps with constipation in children.

Lactose is really good. You can get it at pharmacy.

Make some prune balls

There are really good answers on this!

My son suffered from chronic constipation for years and was hospitalised for it a few times. Few tips…seek professional help eg. child psychiatrist, GP, etc., we used a reward system for when he did go (has to be something he really wanted otherwise he just didn’t care!) and the best tip…stop talking about it to the child! Putting pressure on them just makes it worse…

You can buy Coloxyl and Senna suppositories from the chemist.

You poor thing! My daughter was diagnosed with chronic constipation and we tried everything. The only thing that ended up making her go initially was an enema and then to maintain so that we didn’t disrupt her bowel, she started taking paraffin oil each morning (after about 2 days it started working well). That was our solution.

This post is very helpful, thank you to everyone for their answers and suggestions!

This is quite and old post so I assume you have it all under control now.

Google Encopresis – It’s a constipation disorder, most commonly in young children.

Boosting her fibre intake will make her bowel movements easier. Maybe you could offer more foods such as wholemeal bread and cereal, and fruits and vegetables such as prunes, figs, apricots, plums, peas, broccoli, sweetcorn, potatoes and baked beans. We also give our girls a few pears and grapes. Plus lots of water. We find when we do this is often sends them to the opposite end of the scale and they get the runs which she probably couldn’t control as well then she may just start going ?? good luck

ok i hope you don’t take this the wrong way. i have seen homeopathy helped constipated kids like magic. Worked 10 out of 10.