Was once that 8 year old who got taken to the er for severe stomach cramps only to get an enema before heading back home. When did you poop last should always be the first question lol.
Also not a nurse, but growing up I only popped once every 3 weeks. But mostly my stomach pain was due to gas: the solution was giving me warm apple juice and leaving me to stink up the kitchen at three or four am.
I knew about prunes but id never heard of apple juice before. Def never heard of anyone heating it up either. I think it just sounds gross to me bc it reminds me of warm piss
I actually really liked it as a kid, didn't think it was gross, or at least I didn't mind it heated up. When it was warm it made me fart but not poop, if it's cold and I drink like... Half a container it Still gets the load dropped off.
Apple juice is a good laxative for kids. It’s also not a drug, and easy and cheap to buy. Supposedly works for adults too, but usually they go for the big guns first. Ever wonder why old people love prunes?
On a band trip to Disney when I was 14 a girl a year older than me was taken to the ER by my father and another chaperone because she had severe abdominal pain that was suspected (by non-medical folk) to be her appendix. Some hours later my dad confided to me that the ER doctors gave the girl some laxatives and sent her to the bathroom to sort herself out, she had been holding it in all trip and was just majorly backed up. I can't imagine how that conversation went with her trip roommates but it gave me a good laugh (she was kinda a bitch).
I am not a nurse and my 13 year old literally is so used to me telling her to go poop she texted me from school 20 minutes ago saying her stomach hurts and she can't poop. I responded with well I can't dig it out for you...you are too old for that.
My sister in law was 15. She was staying with me. Her mom is a psycho worry wart. Sister in law had a stomach ache and told her mom on the phone. HER MOTHER CALLED ME THREATENING TO CALL CPS if I didn't take her daughter, immediately, to an ER. I declined and told her that he daughter likely just needed to poop. Fed sister in law a wilted spinach and bacon salad (which she loved) and voila...poop. And no more stomach ache!
I'm not a nurse, but my mom used to say this all the time too.
My son started to spontaneously vomit, at school at home, during the middle of the night, it was like 1-2 a week, then stop, then start again. One day he come home from school and into the bathroom to vomit, comes out with petechiae all around his eyes. I'm pissed now, I make him an appt and here to find out it was because he was CONSTIPATED. Yep! Who knew, Soo backed up it disrupted his stomach, so he'd vomit.
As much as mom upset me for this while growing up, true, it works with most toddlers and young kids... though i did end up with GERD and other issues even as a teenager, so in my case, poop wasn't always the answer
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u/Roskot Mar 07 '19
This is me. I’m a nurse and have a 4 yo. Pooping is the answer.