7. Quite often while you are taking medicines the nurse or doctor will ask you about your poos and how you feel. This is so they can find out if your medicine, and the amount you take, is right for you. The amount you take may need to change until you can do a poo every day without it hurting

Respondent No.Responses
1Clear
2Yes.
That's good because the medicine could work against them if they take the wrong amount.
3Again don't ask too many questions.
Notes from discussion groupYes, clear.
Medicine gives me tummy ache straight away afterwards. My antibiotics fought with my medicine and gave me a stomach ache.

From: Appendix F, Involving children in guideline development

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Constipation in Children and Young People: Diagnosis and Management of Idiopathic Childhood Constipation in Primary and Secondary Care.
NICE Clinical Guidelines, No. 99.
National Collaborating Centre for Women's and Children's Health (UK).
London: RCOG Press; 2010.
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