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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…
5 year old's encopresis accidents at school and I am running out of clean pants
SymptomsOkay so I need to know if anyone else is living this exact life. My 5 year old has been dealing with encopresis for about four months now. We saw the pediatrician, we have a plan, we are doing the…
We finally cracked the new food thing (at least a little) and I want to share what actually worked for us
Success StoriesI know this forum has a lot of hard days posted here and I read almost all of them, so I wanted to put something hopeful out there for once. My daughter is 4 and for about a year and a half she was…
Crohn's diagnosis at 13 and I don't even know where to start with food
NutritionWe got the official diagnosis two weeks ago after almost a year of back and forth with GI. I knew it was coming but it still hit differently when they actually said it out loud. My son is 13 and he…
My 5 year old finally tried a new food after 8 months of the same six things
SymptomsI just need to put this somewhere because my husband is asleep and I am sitting in the kitchen crying happy tears a little. For almost eight months my daughter ate the exact same rotation. Plain…
11 month old with IBS symptoms and I have no idea what I'm doing with food
Nutritionokay so I know IBS is technically not usually diagnosed this young and our pediatrician has been pretty cautious about putting any label on anything but she's been having these awful crampy episodes…
GERD in a 6 year old that never had it as a baby, anyone else hit this late?
SymptomsI feel a little silly posting here because I'm a pediatric nurse and I should probably have all the answers, but being a parent is a completely different thing and I just need to talk to people who…
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