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When to call your doctor vs when to go to the ER
📌 PinnedGeneralOne of the hardest parts of gut struggles is calibrating your worry at 9pm. This is the guide we wish someone had handed us. It is not a triage algorithm and it is not medical advice, think of it as…
Welcome to the Pooficient Community 💛
📌 PinnedGeneralHi, and welcome. We're so glad you found your way here. This is a community for parents and caregivers of children with digestive and gut health struggles: constipation, withholding, encopresis,…
Explaining your child's constipation to teachers, grandparents, and other caregivers
📌 PinnedGeneralIf you've ever stood in a school hallway or at a family dinner trying to explain why your child "just can't hold it" or "just won't go", you know the look. The blank one. The skeptical one. The "in…
Glossary: terms you'll see in this forum
📌 PinnedGeneralDoctors and other parents sometimes use words here that nobody explained to you in the appointment. Here's a plain language guide, in alphabetical order. None of this is diagnostic or treatment…
Six months post-diagnosis and we finally had a good week. Sharing what helped us.
Success StoriesI wasn't sure if I should post this because it still feels fragile, like I'm going to jinx it by saying anything out loud. But I keep thinking about how desperately I searched for "does it ever get…
Twin A goes every day like clockwork, Twin B hasn't gone in 4 days. Same meals, same house. Help.
SymptomsI genuinely cannot wrap my head around this. They eat the same breakfast, same dinner, sit at the same table, drink from the same water cups, and yet here we are. Twin A is totally regular. Twin B…
We made it through encopresis and I just want someone to know it really does end
Success StoriesMy daughter turned 5 last month and I genuinely did not think we would ever be here. Two and a half years of accidents, laundry, pediatrician visits, tears (mostly mine honestly), and the specific…
GERD and breakfast specifically, what has actually helped your kid tolerate mornings?
NutritionMornings were genuinely the hardest part for us when my daughter's reflux was at its worst, somewhere around age 5 into 6. She would wake up and within twenty minutes of eating anything she was in…
Nobody warned me encopresis was even a thing and now here we are
SymptomsOk so I have a 2 year old and I genuinely thought I had the whole digestive drama thing figured out because my first kid was textbook easy. Eat, poop, done. My second has apparently decided to be a…
My 4 year old will only eat about 6 foods and I'm honestly at a loss
SymptomsSo our daughter has been in this extremely limited eating phase for almost a year and a half now and I keep waiting for it to pass but it just... isn't passing. She eats plain rice, plain pasta with…
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