MIRALAX Reviews (POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL 3350)Average Rating: 3.3 (535 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare MIRALAX with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR MIRALAX | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | Constipation | Occasion diarrhea or burning sensation when trying to go. | I only take Miralax when I am feeling stuffed up I do not take it on a regular basis although I probably should. | F | 13 | 3 days 1/2 Cap 1X day | 1/17/2012 | 1 | Irritable Bowel Syndrome | I got a horrible inflamation of the stomach. It looked like I had gained about 70 pounds. I also had bad flatuence very frequently. I had awful muscle pain in my stomach, but not a stomach ache or gas pain, muscle pain. | It did help the constipation immensly. The side effects were dehibiltating though. It may have innteracted with other medication I take. I preffer OTC laxatives much more. (Yes, this is really a 13 year-old typing this.) | F | 13 | 6 days | 1/30/2005 | 5 | chronic constipation | About a month ago I was told that the manufacture of miralax was no longer making it. I was worried because as I wrote before my son with Autism was having problems with the generic. Today I saw an add on tv saying that Miralax was now sold over the counter. I hope it is exactly the same as before. Does anyone know? This is great if it its! | M | 11 | 3 years | 3/22/2007 | 5 | colonoscopy prep for 11 year old | The gastro's directions said to mix a whole container of miralax (14 day supply) with 64 oz of gatorade, drink. It didn't say drink it all at once, over two hours, etc. Per everything else I read, I had my son drink 8 oz every 30 minutes, after two hours he felt bloated, but then it started to work, he started to use the bathroom, and he felt fine. He stayed in the bathroom with a portable dvd player on a table, watched a movie while he used the bathroom, and I when things slowed down I had him drink about about 16 more oz, for a total of 48 oz. Worked great. Except for the first bloating feeling until he started to go there were no problems and no side effects. | M | 11 | 1X day | 7/9/2010 | 2 | constipation | It caused cramping and abdominal pain,small ribbony stools and feeling the need to eliminate, but unable to "go" | My daughter used this for two days to clean out impacted stool. She had a couple of small bowel movements about 2 days later and then started with very uncomfortable side effects. She took Miralax about a year ago for about 1 month but stopped because the side effects were so bad. | F | 11 | 3 days | 1/16/2008 | 1 | Constipation | My daughter did fine at age 11 used as need after 1st 3 months (prescription, OTC form) at age 15 after a 104 fever she became hypersensitive (severe hives) to the polyethylene glycol (main ingredient in miralax) in pain relievers (3 er visits). | Polyethylene glycol is man made food grade plastic which is used in most of our medications and is also in our foods, check your labels! The FDA revised the side effects warning to say can cause hypersensitivity and anaphylactic shock! Have not found a bottle with this warning as of yet. Please find a natural alternative. | F | 11 | 3 months cap full 3X day | 3/10/2010 | 1 | constipation and colon cleanse | nausea, headache, vomiting, abdominal pain, itching, esophagitis and a lower unknown severe abdominal pain in that order from beginning of 1st day to 3rd wk cleanout. | Child was fine except for constipation before taking miralax. Followed Drs orders and now has much worse problems than before we started it. Keep asking about allergic reaction to miralax but docs have bought in hook line and sinker - keep poo pooing that idea. I say maybe good for some but test before using large doses. | M | 11 | 21 days 17g-100g 1X day | 10/26/2014 | 4 | Chronic Constipation/Encopresis | Gassiness has been been increased. This is a wonderous improvement and daily joy for a ten year old who never was able to pass gas due to an impacted colon. Other side effects have been loose stool but this was desired by the GI doctor. | Still taking high doses to maintain a clean colon. The colon usually needs about 18 months to shrink back to normal size to retain original elasticity and control. | M | 10 | 13 months | 8/4/2004 | 1 | constipation. | Prescribed by Dr.was told no side effects...biggest lie ever..my child was way worse after taking this drug..burning eyes..sore throat. .bad stomach pain..depression..dizzy..anxiety..pain in legs & feet..could not eat without vomiting after.. | Warning...please do ur own research befor giving to ur child. | F | 10 | 10 days 2x | 2/8/2015 | 1 | Constipation | Gave this to our 10-year-old Sunday afternoon for constipation, an ongoing issue And her stomach gurgled very loudly the next two days, she developed diarrhea as well. stayed home from school because of immediate, urgent and not always successful sprints to the restroom. | It appears the stuff either provides great relief or several days of abdominal peril with explosive results. I will never give this to her again. | F | 10 | 1 days 10 grams | 3/14/2017 | 1 | "functional" constipation | We're still not sure what all it did to our daughter as we were not drawing the parallels then (see next section for web group that we've learned from in hindsight many things we saw then were probably related to it), but we're pretty sure now that it caused behavior issues among others. | For those who have had lifelong issues, have you been checked for celiac disease? ("Classic" has diarrhea but they're finding out many have it who do not have "classic" symptoms.) Do any of you or your children "crave" wheat and related foods? Some people with this tendency break gluten (wheat protein) down incompletely into a relative of morphine, which accounts for their constipation. A week after we took gluten out of our daughter's diet, her "functional" (i.e., supposedly no anatomical and/or physiological reason for it) constipation cleared up (we had already taken milk out of her diet, which many people who don't fully digest gluten in this way also have the same problem with). As far as long-term side effects, there is a whole yahoo group dedicated to discussing these issues: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/miralax/ You have to join to be able to access the archives, but it might make interesting reading regarding what others have | F | 9 | 3 years | 5/9/2007 | 1 | This was horrible for my son was prescribed for constipation sent him back to er after a week did not help. .two weeks later he was getting worse with pains and still going but this stuff practically burned a hole in his belly reviews say not fda approved for children. .will never give this to my child again. | M | 9 | 30 days | 2/18/2018 | 1 | Constipation | Chronic, debilitating stomach pain episodes. | My kiddo came into the ER for constipation and they prescribed Miralax. His pain got worse. They assumed he had more backed-up in there so told us to keep him on it daily. His chronic pain progressed. In and out of the hospital. Morphine. Tests, tests and more tests. All the while they kept saying "keep on the Miralax". I finally took him off of it last week and he progressively got better. Tonight he told me that he hasn't pooped today or yesterday so I gave him some. He's now writhing in pain. Could it be this whole time the docs were prescribing what was hurting him while running all these tests? Won't be using it again and we'll see if all this clears up... | M | 9 | 12 weeks 1 capful 1X day | 5/29/2011 | 5 | 8 year old encoperesis | none but recently had pale stool | has been a life saver for my daughter who has been having severe constipation with stool impaction. Whenever we skip a few days, she immediately is constipated again. She takes is without an issue in a glass of water, juice or tea. No taste whatsoever | F | 8 | 6 months | 11/6/2009 | 5 | Chronic Constipation | only side effects were lots of bowel movements the first few days but have tapered off and now pretty regular | This has been great for my 8 year old who has had problems since she was 18 months old. It is the first thing to really work. Now we are starting our 1 year old on it due to the same problems. | F | 8 | 1 days | 4/7/2008 | 4 | 8 Year Old Son Cronic Constipation | none to speak of... yet. | My son is 8 yrs old. He has been diagnosed with a lazy colon. We went through celiac treatment and the possibilities of Hirschprungs disease. He has been on a daily dose of Miralax (17grams), Fletchers (2 teaspoons), and one tablet of Prevacid (15 MG Solutab). He has had chronic constipation since he was 3 months old. He is not showing signs of improvement. Today he had a BM after a stretch of 12 days. It is extremely painful to see him go through this cycle. Can anyone tell me if he will out grow this condition? Rick | M | 8 | 5 years | 8/28/2009 | 4 | constipation | None | Works great but am concerned about my child becoming dependent on it. | M | 8 | 30 days | 12/31/2006 | 1 | child chronic constipation | lethargy, headaches, tremors in his hands, dehydration, fits of anger, tired but couldn't sleep.. | I will never give this to my child again! He was on it for over 4 yrs and it made everything worse. It didn't even really work well to begin with and the Dr.'s kept telling us to up his dosage--at one time he was taking 3x the adult dose... just ridiculous and makes me so angry! We are now using a few natural things---the results are better with no side effects.... | F | 8 | 4 years 17g 2X day | 6/27/2012 | 1 | my 8 yr olds severe constipation | Severe burning pain every time he had a bowel movement. I have replaced it with fish oil and everything is much better | M | 8 | 1 months 18mg 2xday | 6/11/2012 | 1 | Constipation | I have given my daughter miralax 2x in her life. Both times a few days in we ended up in the ER with left side body weakness (full paralysis the second time) and a migraine. They diagnosed her with hemeplegic migraines and all told me there was no way Miralax could do this to her. | F | 8 | 7 days 3/4 capful 1X day | 10/20/2020 |