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Yup, sounds like encopresis, especially since he's at the age that starts to happen. I would do a google search like the other poster said. That's where I got information from. My ds has been dealing with it for quite a while. He would have accidents sometimes 8 times a day with small leakages. Ds just gets too wrapped up in what he is doing and doesn't want to go.
We started mineral oil nightly for over a week until he was regularily going potty daily and after a while we stopped the mineral oil. We also increased his fluids and his fiber, and decreased stuff that constipates like dairy and bananas. We put a calendar on the bathroom wall with sheets of stickers next to it, and each day he has to go and sit on the potty for 15 minutes (less if he goes) and he gets a sticker on the calendar. For every 30 stickers (about a month's worth of daily going) we get ds a small coveted toy in the $10 price range. Getting him to stop and sit each day so he can get a sticker has gotten ds going more regularily so he isn't having accidents or leakages. That's whats working for us.
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