Last Monday, we took Little Bug to a GI doctor to follow up on the wizard’s suspicion that he wasn’t actually emptying his bowels when going to the bathroom. He took an X-ray (which took two people to hold Little Bug down for) and confirm that his entire large intestine was filled with crap. He gave us instructions to have Little Bug drink 3 hours of magnesium citrate mixed with soda or juice twice a day.
If you don’t know, magnesium citrate is a saline based laxative that comes in lemon lime flavor. It is beyond disgusting. Little Bug did a great job drinking the first one; however the second dose took three hours to get into him. Unfortunately, none of this worked. We then had to try another laxative the next day- which worked.
Little Bug seem to take it in stride. He was pretty stoked about getting to eat as many popsicles as he could and drinking all the soda he could get his tiny hands on. He is slightly suspicious of us. Prior to drinking anything we give him, he wants us to try it. He knows that we the laxatives in his drinks to get him to take it and also knows that we won’t drink them if they have his medicine in them. This kid is too smart sometimes.
The doctor didn’t give us any real idea of how we can prevent this- other than daily laxatives. While he wants Little Bug to sit on the toilet three times a day, he did say that it could take anywhere from 6 to 12 months in order for the large intestine to shrink back to the normal size and potty training in that time may not go well as there is a lack of body awareness there due to the size of the large intestine.
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