6 year old with narrow stools and mucas....

 

My daughter complains of frequent stomach aches.  She will wake up in the night crying with these.  I have taken her temp. during some of these episodes, and she has had a low grade fever with them.   She has had bloodwork, and an upper gi with a small bowel follow thru that was all said to be normal.   In Aug. she had a really bad couple of weeks....narrow stools, lots of mucas, pain, and she will go the bathroom up to 4 times a day.  At times, she will say that her bottom hurts after she has a bowel movement.  Her ped. referred her to a ped. gi at the university of michigan.  They scheduled her with a nurse practioner who talked with a ped. gi. after she talked with us, and she thinks that she is constipated and scripted her 17 grams of miralax a day.  I don't think she is constipated, but I am willing to give this a shot before we do something more invasive....  A comment that the np made was that she didn't think that my daughter had crohns because she doesn't have diarrhea or blood in her stool!!!!!  Seriously?!  I don't have either of those either, but I definitely have crohns!!!!!

 

So, my question is what would cause the mucas and narrow stools? 

 

Thanks!

Check out this site for the ingredients.  I would nix any with aluminum or mannitol or other ingredients that will cause her more discomfort.

 

 

Actually, I think she should be on fibre supplements to bulk up her stool rather than the Maalox.

 

If it is CD...you at least know that a colonoscopy or at least a sigmoidoscopy would be needed to see what's going on in there if she isn't improving at all.

quincy

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Post Edited (quincy) : 9/23/2007 9:10:52 PM (GMT-6)

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