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    Can toddler take prune juice to aid in bowel movement?

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      daddybear
      last edited by

      Hi, my kid used to have constipation. Sometimes blood in the stools which was really of a concern. He took prune juice which helped but was not, imho, ideal as a solution.


      The following helped a lot… fruit with natural yoghurt or greek yoghurt.

      Half a red dragonfuit and one serving of other fruit mixed with 2-3 heaps of yoghurt. Thats a lot of fruits but so far, he is super regular and no problems anymore. I put red dragonfruit as he likes to mix the yoghurt and see the colors combine. Its not so much the fruit but the quantity, I believe.

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        24hr-mum
        last edited by

        ya, yoghurt is gd. try buy the orignal flavour, not those sweetened with preserved fruit as its got a lot of artifiicial coloring.


        buy eg paul’s yoghurt, farmer union or greek brand
        original flavor. add honey to sweeten as orignal flavor is sour

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          coccomie
          last edited by

          My dd used to have this problem since very small, after she started totally on fm. She has "heaty body" that need to pass motion everyday else she will have super hard stones that need to dig out using our finger. We tried almost every brand of fm until she settle on current one with one scoop less than actual. Now she is 3yo and take more solid food than fm, she is back to normal. That tough period was over. I remember we have to make her eat papaya, sweet potato porridge, fresh fruit juice, diluted prune juice and lots of water. We are very happy when she poop, she always say: oh meimei poop poop, happy happy!


          Now ds is on bm and fm, hopefully he won’t have this problem.

          I find that if possible give more fruit and water, i find it more naturally, don’t depend on prune juice.

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            jesuslovesme
            last edited by

            tks for all the valuable input. I will put all your suggestions to test. Gotten the yoghurt, still trying desperately to get the fresh prunes. He is now on prune juice daily (1 tbsp in the morning).


            I inserted the suppository yesterday and the stool was soft. The problem is he just won't poop naturally on his own accord 😞 and doc would not recommend using suppository for an extended period of time.

            24hr-mum> my DS is 13mth old.

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              24hr-mum
              last edited by

              the supp is meant for 1 or 2 day usage.

              try change the diet. - add water, fruits, yoghurt, less meat or avoid
              when my #3 was 1 year old, she can poo up to 3 times a day naturally after ea meal cos on breastmk and vegetarian diet and brown rice only.
              no meat.

              it takes time to rectify constipatn
              brown rice cereal will help but must hv lots of water otherwise constipation will get worse if got fibre, no water

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                autumnbronze
                last edited by

                Hi jesusloveme,


                You have PM 😄

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                  24hr-mum
                  last edited by

                  can try newlife honey. (http://www.newlife.com.my)

                  start with friendly bacteria, lots of water n fruits.
                  n yoghurt and prune juice.
                  never let the kid go without passing motion for more than 2 days. on day 3, better start give prune juice and lots of papaya

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                    kidzo galore
                    last edited by

                    Hi daddies & mummies


                    m juz sharing on my own experience, if u r int to know more, feel free to ask.

                    My kids r on this thing called soy oligosaccharide.

                    My elder boy used to go toilet almost once a week since young. his motion is so hard until cannot flush down the toilet bowl & when removed fromt he toilet bowl cannot even b squashed in my husband hand. but after the hard part comes out, then diahorrea immediately. I’ve seen many doc (both english & TCM) tis is becoz the motion has cahnged form . thus very toxic.


                    But after I fed him this oligosccharide, he has regular nice stools

                    Oligosccarides actually is food for the Gd bacteria in our intestines. It’ll cause the good bacteria to multipy by 40 times.

                    Other fucntions is that it
                    - increases immunity
                    - reduce cholestrol,
                    - protect liver
                    & more

                    If u need assurance of the product. It has received many endorsements, out of which , 1 is being Sole Supplement of 2012 China Olympic Team.

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                      LOLMum
                      last edited by

                      i got ds to poo on a daily basis by starting him at a very young age.


                      he does his business daily without fail and i dont recall him having much of a problem of any kind (like hard stool etc).

                      it has become a habit for him to poo in the morning before he goes off to school.

                      eating lots of veg and fruits, i guess, help alot too.

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                        24hr-mum
                        last edited by

                        kidzo galore:
                        Hi daddies & mummies


                        m juz sharing on my own experience, if u r int to know more, feel free to ask.

                        My kids r on this thing called soy oligosaccharide.

                        My elder boy used to go toilet almost once a week since young. his motion is so hard until cannot flush down the toilet bowl & when removed fromt he toilet bowl cannot even b squashed in my husband hand. but after the hard part comes out, then diahorrea immediately. I've seen many doc (both english & TCM) tis is becoz the motion has cahnged form . thus very toxic.


                        But after I fed him this oligosccharide, he has regular nice stools

                        Oligosccarides actually is food for the Gd bacteria in our intestines. It'll cause the good bacteria to multipy by 40 times.

                        Other fucntions is that it
                        - increases immunity
                        - reduce cholestrol,
                        - protect liver
                        & more

                        If u need assurance of the product. It has received many endorsements, out of which , 1 is being Sole Supplement of 2012 China Olympic Team.
                        where to buy it

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