7 year old pooping his pants

[Shelly80]

I dont understand it but my 7 year old has been pooping his pants, at school and at home. Its been going on for 2 years now and recently been getting worse.  I have taken him to the doctor and he checked him and confirmed it wasnt constipation, but to bowel train him, meaning give him a fiber supp. at the same time everyday so he goes to the bathroom at the same time. This didnt really work too well. What can I do to make this stop? Its upsetting to me and the whole family. I am a little more understanding but my husband just thinks hes being lazy and punishes him. I'm stuck on this one, please help.

[mel5881]

hi i have a 4 year old that has problems with pooing his pants. i dont know why he does this but he does. i have taken him to the doctors and they wanted him to see a scicologist but he is four and dosnt really understant the lingo of a scicologist and the reason ehy he is there. The school is getting impatient with this problem and last year i was made to feel by his kindy teacher that pulling him out and punishing him by not playing with the kids would work. he had a whole 2 terms of school of because the teacher wasnt willing to help him clean himself up and got frustrated to the max with his problems. she brought me to tears a couple of times. he got out of it for a short time but the problem has *** back and his new p/p teacher wants to discuss this problem. I am hoping they are not going to make me feel i have to pull him out again. I have lost family members as they treat him horrible when he has an accident especially my mum due to this and the torment they put on him they are no longer alowed in our lives. I have tried every thing possible there is some days it works and others it dosnt. i do no that it is very hard for my 4 year old and he gets very shy when this happens and sumtimes hides this is due to all the negative people that were around him. im not just dealing with a kid that poops his pants im dealing with the emotional stage of it i no my son dosnt want to do this i carnt understand why he wont use the toilet and being a single full time working mum im finding it hard myself. help me i dont no what to do.

[momof00012]

I have a son whom is now 13 he has had cronic bowel issues since birth, we just took him to the Dr. last week for yet another "clean out" If the poo in his pants is not from behavior DO NOT,DO NOT let your family degrade him or punish him try to take him to another dr. I have foud that emotional stress or changes in routines can cause more accidents. The child doesn't really want to poo in his pants but, if he is caught and he gets into trouble he will start to try and hold it or sit in it for fear of punishment in either case it's not healthy. try using fiber powder and also lactulose it is over the counter now do this for at least 1 mts. this will get him back on track quicker going normal

.sometimes a child will withhold due to painful bowl movments which when this happens may in turn cause constipation and this can be life threatning
I know we almost lost my son due to this, only we took him to the dr. and they were trying different treatments on him and was in the hospital when it happened and they put him on go lightly which is what they give patients prior to sergery it took him 7 days to finaly go pooh and by the time he did the dr. said that if he had not went they were going to have to do surgery or he would die. Thank God he went. So tell your family that yelling and punishment is not an option. I know you said the dr. said that it was not constipation but, I will lay money that it is and it takes years of working with the dr. and child giving the child praise and maybe sticker charts and rewards for good bathroom habits do not let anyone give him negative emotions when he has an accident only give positive for good and ignore the negative this really does work for the emotional part of it and he will start to try really hard to do well but, it will take along time for him to get back on track this is not something that will go away right away! Watch giving him milk products as that will make things worse. have him eat alot of fiber rich foods grapes, pop corn helps, warm drinks, juice. Hope this helps. good luck!