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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…
We got our daughter's Crohn's into remission and I still can't believe it's real
Success StoriesI almost didn't post this because I'm genuinely scared that writing it down will jinx it somehow. But I've been lurking in this community for almost two years reading other people's wins and I kept…
Does anyone else's toddler just randomly gag on foods they've eaten a hundred times before?
SymptomsOk so my 2 year old gagged at dinner tonight on a piece of soft cooked carrot. Not a new food. Not a weird texture. Literally the same carrot coins she's eaten since she was like 14 months old. I…
My 4 year old holds it in on purpose and I don't know how to help her
SymptomsHello everyone. I am Nuran, I look after my granddaughter who just turned 4. I want to ask about something that has been worrying me for a few weeks now. She holds her poop in. On purpose. You can…
5 year old going 4-5 days between poops and I'm losing my mind a little
LifestyleOkay so my daughter just turned 5 and for the past maybe two months she will go literally four or five days without a bowel movement and then when she finally goes it's this massive painful thing and…
How do you even know when a stomachache is a Crohn's symptom vs just a regular kid stomachache
SymptomsMy son is 5 and was diagnosed about eight months ago. The GI team has been great but I feel like every single time he grabs his belly and says ow, my whole nervous system goes haywire. Is this a…
8 month old hasn't pooped in 5 days and I can't stop googling at midnight
Generalokay so I know googling at midnight is never a good idea and yet here I am. my daughter is 8 months old and she has not pooped in 5 days. she's been on solids for about 6 weeks now, purees mostly,…
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