Tips On Relieving Constipation

On the instructions it says for adults and children over 12,. Why is this? I have a couple of times used prep H on my youngest who is 8 but now I am worried if there is an bad effect.
Is there any problems with long term use?
My 13 year old daughter started with piles around 11 years old from long term constipation and straining and used prep H and Anusol alot for a few weeks back then and has used it quite often since when she bleeds from straining on the toilet or when her piles swell due to constipation and prolonged straining.
Is there a more suitable cream?

My son is 10 years old. He was born 9 weeks early, but has no associated problems and is academically very bright. Unfortunately he soils his underwear daily. Not a lot but enough that is obvious to us!!! I have had him to the doctors several times and they keep saying its constipation and to give him Parachoc daily. I have done this for nearly 8 months with no change. It is becoming quite distressing for him and he was incredibly upset last night and crying and saying “i cant help it, i cant feel it, i cant feel that i need to go. Its not normal for a 10 year old. Why cant i stop it mum”. It was a heart wrenching time for me and all i could do was try and reassure him and tell him i loved him and that i would try and get him better. What do i tell the doctors so they will do something? As i said i have been several times but am being fobbed off. Has anyone else experienced this with their child and do you have any advice?? Many thanks

good morning, Sunflower here.
i am 229lbs, and 5′8. i also have chronic constipation(for nearly two years now) and fatty liver. i was placed on a prescribed stimulant, which i took as directed in March of 08, and ended it last May of 09.
i have done this dance since i was 15 years old, after i had my first child. i get fat, get disgusted, lose alot of weight,(100 pounds, i have lost 100 pounds three times now, in a ten year period) by eating like an anorexic, and well then am starving, and it all starts over. i have come to the possible conclusion that this is an eating disorder, or rather just a really sad relationship with food and myself.
With all of that garbage being said i am about to embark again on a healthier way of eating and living. i am looking SPECIFICALLY FOR A DIETWHERE I CAN EAT AS MUCH AS I NEED TO TO FEEL HEALTHY. SOMETHING LIKE THE WEIGHT WATCHERS DIET WHERE YOU CAN EAT AS MANY APPLES, ORANGES,ROLLED OATS, BROILED CHICKEN ETC., THAT YOU NEED BUT NO LUNCH MEAT, NO CANDY, NO BREAD, TYPE THING.
I AM JUST NO LONGER UP FOR COUNTING CALORIES, AND I DONT HAVE ALOT OF TIME.
I AM SURE I COULD PUT SOMETHING LIKE THIS TOGETHER MYSELF, BUT i have some challenges aside from being a food addict. i just graduated college and am looking for professional employment. i begin volunteering next week.i have no car, so walking is a part of my daily regimen i have children, and it is VERY hard for me to work all day, come home give them the time they need, plus homework, etc. it is almost impossible to make two seperate dinners unless i make me spinach salad, and them cardboard pizza. i dont like that. i know itr will be hgard but does anyone know of any menues we can all eat, is budget freindly and i will (at least initially) lose weight on? a weeks worth???????
THANK YOU

I am 13 and I got blood work. My doctor told me my iron levels are low.
They aren’t that low but it’s because I don’t eat enough liver and all that stuff.
I think I had it for a while now cause I have a lot of the symptoms. Some of these symptoms explain my whole life.
Night time leg cramps, its 1:42 AM and I have a sleeping disorder, I have to sleep earlier in order to stay asleep all night but I woke up with the night time leg cramps I’ve been having since I was really little.
Another symptom is trouble swallowing. I have that and it’s really not my fault… my parents and people don’t understand. I can’t take my iron pills because of that and it’s not my fault I’ve really tried too.
So if I ignore it all, and not take my pills because I CAN’T, And I’m not using the liquid stuff cause my doctor told me not too, what’s the worst that could happen?
I’m only young so I don’t know any of this stuff
Below I got all the symptoms of it, There’s a * by the ones I have or have had
Depression *
Fatigue *
Listlessness, weakness, decreased work productivity *
Impaired learning and cognitive function *
ADD and ADHD type behavioral disturbances *
Developmental delay in infants and young children (I’m not sure what this is lol)
Poor memory
Decreased attention span and increased distractibility *
Impaired reactivity and coordination (Don’t know what this is)
Irritability *
Dizziness *
Appetite loss
Cravings for non foods such as ice, dirt or clay * (I EAT ICE LIKE CRAZY! it was worse before I even had to get an ice maker. I can’t even explain how much ice I use to have when I had that thing… Maybe like a thousand a day D: no lie)
Constipation *
Difficulty swallowing (because low iron may cause a thin membrane to grow across the esophagus) *
Joint soreness *
Night time leg cramps * (since a child)
Asthma (not really but my parents thought i’d have it… but i’d say no I just have short breath thats it)
Sores on skin, or itching
Poor wound healing
Can cause excessive menstrual bleeding * (been a problem since I was 9… I’ve been going to the doctors for this problem for a while now)
Hair loss (LOW IRON IS A FREQUENTLY OVERLOOKED CAUSE OF HAIR LOSS)
Headaches* (I have been going to the doctors a lot for this, before I knew I had low iron levels)
Sore or burning tongue
Soreness in corners of the mouth *
Brittle, flat, or spoon shaped nails
Longitudinal ridges on nails
Heart palpitations on exertion (I don’t know about this one but I may have just a small heart problem … I don’t know if it would be this so I’m sticking with no)
Shortness of breath *
Cold extremities, with decreased resistance to cold and poor regulation of body temperature *
Tendency to recurrent infections
Chronic bladder infections
Anemia (hypo chromic, microcytic) paleness, weakness, drowsiness, fatigue *
Numbness & tingling *
Night sweats *
Fragile bones
Growth impairment in children
Eye soreness *
Vague gastrointestinal symptoms: belching, gas, nausea *
Vitiligo (light blotches on the skin)
Swelling in the ankles
Bluish tint to the whites of the eyes
Visual disturbances (I can’t explain it but I’m not sure about this one)
Papilledema (swelling inside the eye)
So yeah the ones I said I’m not sure about can you explain what they are, and in the add details I’ll put if I might have it or not…
Sorry if I sound like everything’s wrong with me, I don’t mean it like that at all.

Has PETA gone over the edge?
WATERBURY, Vt. — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc., urging them to replace cow’s milk they use in their ice cream products with human breast milk, according to a statement recently released by a PETA spokeswoman.
“PETA’s request comes in the wake of news reports that a Swiss restaurant owner will begin purchasing breast milk from nursing mothers and substituting breast milk for 75 percent of the cow’s milk in the food he serves,” the statement says.
PETA officials say a move to human breast milk would lessen the suffering of dairy cows and their babies on factory farms and benefit human health.
“The fact that human adults consume huge quantities of dairy products made from milk that was meant for a baby cow just doesn’t make sense,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “Everyone knows that ‘the breast is best,’ so Ben & Jerry’s could do consumers and cows a big favor by making the switch to breast milk.”
“We applaud PETA’s novel approach to bringing attention to an issue, but we believe a mother’s milk is best used for her child,” said a spokesperson for Ben and Jerry’s.
Read PETA’s letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield
September 23, 2008
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield,
CofoundersBen & Jerry’s Homemade Inc.
Dear Mr. Cohen and Mr. Greenfield,
On behalf of PETA and our more than 2 million members and supporters, I’d like to bring your attention to an innovative new idea from Switzerland that would bring a unique twist to Ben and Jerry’s.
Storchen restaurant is set to unveil a menu that includes soups, stews, and sauces made with at least 75 percent breast milk procured from human donors who are paid in exchange for their milk. If Ben and Jerry’s replaced the cow’s milk in its ice cream with breast milk, your customers-and cows-would reap the benefits.
Using cow’s milk for your ice cream is a hazard to your customer’s health. Dairy products have been linked to juvenile diabetes, allergies, constipation, obesity, and prostate and ovarian cancer. The late Dr. Benjamin Spock, America’s leading authority on child care, spoke out against feeding cow’s milk to children, saying it may play a role in anemia, allergies, and juvenile diabetes and in the long term, will set kids up for obesity and heart disease-America’s number one cause of death.
Animals will also benefit from the switch to breast milk. Like all mammals, cows only produce milk during and after pregnancy, so to be able to constantly milk them, cows are forcefully impregnated every nine months. After several years of living in filthy conditions and being forced to produce 10 times more milk than they would naturally, their exhausted bodies are turned into hamburgers or ground up for soup.
And of course, the veal industry could not survive without the dairy industry. Because male calves can’t produce milk, dairy farmers take them from their mothers immediately after birth and sell them to veal farms, where they endure 14 to17 weeks of torment chained inside a crate so small that they can’t even turn around.
The breast is best! Won’t you give cows and their babies a break and our health a boost by switching from cow’s milk to breast milk in Ben and Jerry’s ice cream? Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Tracy Reiman
Executive Vice President
I am somewhat biased as I own a dairy and we treat our cows very well. They get the best feed, clean bedding, and living conditions, vet care, etc.
We don’t sell to veal farms(I have never heard of them).
What do you the yahoo public think?

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