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Post by milee on May 12, 2014 12:50:52 GMT -5
BTW, although it stinks that she's feeding them junk all the time, that may have nothing to do with the constipation. Lots of things - including food allergies, Crohn's, Celiac, IBS, tethered spinal cord and other behavioural issues can cause that type of constipation, so it may or may not be related to the Pringle's (although I'm with you that those aren't a great choice of food especially for a kid who needs to rebuild strength and help his system recover.) The bigger issue there is that any of the potential causes are also potentially quite serious and she'll need to be very observant and also probably working regularly with a doctor to figure out what's going on, which doesn't sound likely from what OP is seeing.
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Post by michelyn8 on May 12, 2014 12:57:40 GMT -5
I'm trying to remember how long DGD had gone without a bowel movement when we carted her to the ER a couple months ago. She was fussy, low appetite and running a low fever that wouldn't budge so we made a middle of the night trip. Because touching her abdomen made her fuss more, they did x-rays and found she was constipated. They gave her a suppository told us to give her more juice (which we'd been trying to get her drink as well as water for a day or two already) and sent us home. A couple days later when her fever came back but higher, we took her to her pediatrician and she was diagnosed with strep. The ped told us the symptoms that sent us to the ER were early signs of the strep but not classic symptoms so obviously missed since they didn't have any reason to do a throat culture. She started the usual amoxycilin, finally accepted more fluids, and she finally had bowel movement and was back to her normal self.
Not everyone is affected the same way by the same foods. My ex-BF avoided chocolate because it would go right through him. I can eat it and it has no affect on me except a queasy tummy if I overdo it. When I was a child, I lived on toasted cheese sandwiches and ice cream, now if I eat more than one dairy product every couple days, it tears me up. So I can easily see how a "normal" diet of junk wouldn't affect a child. Its not good for them to say the least, but also not going to necessarily affect every child the same.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2014 23:29:40 GMT -5
Hopefully I will feel better after this judgemental rant. Sister in law has five kids, feeds them crappy junk food all the time. One of the boys stopped eating for seven days! She finally notices and rushes him to the ER (no insurance), ends up the kid is plugged up and needs to stay in the hospital for four days on a very restricted diet until his system finally unclogs. So everyone else gets to pay for her poor food choices. He comes home this morning, and the first picture she posts on FB is with the kid holding Pringles in both hands, shoving them into his mouth. I predict another visit to the ER soon. I think they should make food choice education mandatory for stupid people like her! OK. You may all go about your normal activities... I thought you were talking about a teenager! Who doesn't know that a 3 year old isn't eating for days on end? 3 year olds don't make their own food or serve themselves. That is complete neglect if it is true. Where is the father in this melee of kids? Accountability goes to both parents for health and welfare of children. Are you doing anything to intervene or help? Can you take one or two of the kids one night a week and give them a non chaotic, healthy meal?
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2014 0:25:26 GMT -5
With the many child abuse and neglect cases I've seen, this doesn't surprise me one bit. I once worked with the mother of a two year old boy who would feed him a carton of ice cream, every morning, in his crib/playpen, this so he wouldn't bother her while she slept until noon. You wouldn't believe how disgustingly filthy that playpen was. Another case...(I've posted this before) At taxpayers expense, a 5 year old boy had to go into the hospital to have every tooth in his head crowned with silver caps because his baby teeth were all rotten. I suspected poor nutrition. The next morning I found his mother sitting in her car, in the grocery store parking lot. I stopped to check on the boy and saw him in the back seat eating a whole box of chocolate donuts. She saw that I had seen what he was eating and whined, "Oh, I know, but that's what he wanted." Later that year I had a visit with the boy at his school and he told me the kids in his class teased him about his silver teeth. What mother does that to her child ?? Uh oh!! Someone got me on another child abuse rant. Who did that?
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Virgil Showlion
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Post by Virgil Showlion on May 13, 2014 5:38:20 GMT -5
So a kid is being abused and will probably be a 300 lb diabetic by age 18 if he doesn't die from an impacted bowel sometime before then. The family doesn't care, the costs are being passed off to taxpayers, and there's nothing anybody can do about it. At least this thread reminded me why I don't come to YMOT more often.
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Post by milee on May 13, 2014 6:24:13 GMT -5
So a kid is being abused and will probably be a 300 lb diabetic by age 18 if he doesn't die from an impacted bowel sometime before then. The family doesn't care, the costs are being passed off to taxpayers, and there's nothing anybody can do about it. At least this thread reminded me why I don't come to YMOT more often. I'm glad someone finds this stuff to be funny.
Heh, heh, heh! Those grubby, sickly little boogers are just the limit! Har, har.
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Virgil Showlion
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Post by Virgil Showlion on May 13, 2014 8:15:16 GMT -5
So a kid is being abused and will probably be a 300 lb diabetic by age 18 if he doesn't die from an impacted bowel sometime before then. The family doesn't care, the costs are being passed off to taxpayers, and there's nothing anybody can do about it. At least this thread reminded me why I don't come to YMOT more often. I'm glad someone finds this stuff to be funny.
Heh, heh, heh! Those grubby, sickly little boogers are just the limit! Har, har.
What...? I think you quoted the wrong post.
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Post by jeffreymo on May 13, 2014 8:24:06 GMT -5
Some idiots on facebook like to brag about their terrible parenting to draw attention to themselves - kinda like the opposite of the helicopter parent. I doubt it was really 7 days without food, but stating that on Facebook will get them the attention they desire.
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Post by midjd on May 13, 2014 8:41:29 GMT -5
I'm glad someone finds this stuff to be funny.
Heh, heh, heh! Those grubby, sickly little boogers are just the limit! Har, har.
What...? I think you quoted the wrong post. "At least this thread reminded me why I don't come to YMOT more often "
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Post by Virgil Showlion on May 13, 2014 10:32:09 GMT -5
What...? I think you quoted the wrong post. "At least this thread reminded me why I don't come to YMOT more often " Oh. I meant because it depresses me. Not because I find it funny.
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