Need advice my mother is going to the bathroom at least 20 times a day. Only a few times a day is she going a lot and the rest she is going hardly at all. Sometimes she is not going at all, yet she request to be taken to the bathroom. Her poop is soft and I have to wipe several times before I remove it off her butt. She complains after each wipe. She sometimes says she did not go when she did. She yells at me once she is but on the toilet to take her off to her bed. If she says on half the time, she will go and not realize it. The entire time she is yelling. Her stomach is now swollen, I think it is poop. She has a UTI and is on medicine for the third day. Now sure what to do about all these trips? Do I just let her keep yelling as once I was going to take her off the toilet and poop was coming out of her butt. I know she is not sleeping much as I am not sleeping much too. Should I give her a laxative? Will this affect the medicine that I am giving her for the UTI? Is this normal behavior for someone in the mid-stage of Alzheimer?
When my mom was in renal failure her tummy swelled severely
Could mom be dehydrated?
Wiping the bottom over and over drives my mom crazy - says it hurts her which I'm sure it does
We've had the can never get her clean episodes too - luckily she rarely gets constipated
Also the moist wipes are easier on your mom than toilet paper.
After the enema she lost almost 5 lbs in one day.
If you don't already weigh your mom on a regular basis it can be helpful to do so on a weekly basis along with her bp.
Sometimes there can be a partial blockage of hard feces that won't come out yet the softer poop is able to leak around this. Stool softeners or an enema may be needed.
Sometimes - like my mother - they lose the ability to expel it properly and need a stimulant type of laxative to get things moving.
Sometimes they have hemorrhoids that push on the area that makes them feel the need to go, some hemorrhoid ointment can help with that.