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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…
Starting solids with an infant who might have celiac. When did you introduce gluten?
GeneralHi. It's almost 1am and I can't stop going down rabbit holes about this so I figured I'd just post. My daughter is 8 months and we started solids about 6 weeks ago. She's been doing okay on pureed…
Does anyone else's older kid still deal with encopresis? Feeling really alone in this
NutritionMy son is 13 and we are still dealing with encopresis. I know most of the posts here are about younger kids and I completely get that, but I feel like we fell through some kind of crack where nobody…
Cross-contamination at birthday parties, what actually worked for your celiac kid?
Success StoriesHi everyone. My daughter just turned 3 and she was diagnosed with celiac about four months ago. We've gotten the hang of the home stuff, separate cutting board, her own butter, reading every label,…
My 5 year old hasn't gone in 4 days and I'm losing my mind a little
GeneralOkay so I know four days isn't technically an emergency but it feels like one when you're watching your kid walk around holding her stomach and refusing to sit on the toilet. She went through a phase…
One year gluten free and my daughter finally feels like herself again
Success StoriesI want to share this because when we were in the thick of the diagnosis I searched everywhere for posts like this and could never find enough of them. Our daughter was diagnosed with celiac just…
Trying to understand what 'gut motility' actually means for a 3 year old with IBS
LifestyleMy daughter just turned 3 last month and we got a pretty clear picture from her GI specialist that what she's dealing with is IBS, mostly the kind that swings between loose stools and days of nothing…
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