The Best Suppositories for Kids: Two Shelves, Kept Apart

What the label covers. Pedia-Lax Liquid Glycerin Suppositories are made by Fleet, the same house as the adult glycerin jar, and the Drug Facts panel states relief of occasional constipation with a bowel movement generally in 15 minutes to 1 hour. The directions cover children 2 to 5 years, one applicator, and send children under 2 to a doctor. That age band is the reason this is the default recommendation on this page.

Format matters more than the price gap here. Owners describe the pre-filled applicator as the difference between a two minute job and a wrestling match, because there is no solid to warm in your fingers and nothing to drop. At $12.81 for 6 you pay about $2.14 per use against about 40 cents for a solid pediatric suppository, and for most parents that trade is worth making once or twice a year. If more than one box is likely, the 3-pack at $21.11 for 18 is about $1.17 each.

Stop lines, from the label: rectal bleeding or no bowel movement after use means stop and ask a doctor, and no laxative for more than 1 week without one. Deeper reading: best glycerin suppositories for kids covers this shelf in full, the Pedia-Lax review covers the whole line, and how to use a rectal suppository covers the mechanics.

Two facts, printed where you can see them. Rising Health Children's Glycerin Suppositories state 1.2 g and ages 2 to 5 years in the listing title. Pediatric glycerin suppositories are generally made in a roughly 1 to 1.2 g size against the adult 2 g, so this is a full pediatric strength and not a fraction of an adult one. The count is not published in the title, so we compute no cost per use for it.

Rising also sells the same pediatric size under its Proctozone-G children's name at $8.49, which is the cheaper of the two listings at our September 5, 2026 check for what the titles describe as the same 1.2 g pediatric product. Neither publishes a count, so compare them on price alone and check the count on the listing page before ordering.

The arithmetic. Quality Choice Pediatric Suppositories are $10.00 for 25, which is about 40 cents each against about $2.14 for a Pedia-Lax applicator. For a household where a pediatrician has said this will be needed more than once, that gap is the strongest argument on the page for a solid suppository.

Quality Choice also lists infant glycerin suppositories, 25 count each in a 2-pack, at $12.03, about 24 cents each, which is the cheapest per unit anywhere on this site's pediatric shelf. Infant in a product name does not override the directions, though: pediatric glycerin labels send children under 2 to a doctor, and for a baby that call comes first. Our constipation relief for babies page covers that end of the shelf.

Different shelf, different rules. FeverAll Infant Acetaminophen Suppositories deliver 80 mg of acetaminophen through the rectal lining, 6 per box at $12.73. Where a glycerin suppository works locally and is measured in minutes, this one is measured in milligrams and adds to every other acetaminophen product in the house.

One buying trap worth repeating from our acetaminophen suppository guide: Amazon's FeverAll titles do not track the strength ladder. The 120 mg listing is titled with the word Infant, and the 325 mg listing with the word Children. Match the milligram number your pediatrician gave you, never the word.

Read the number. This FeverAll listing is 120 mg per suppository, 6 to a box at $15.09, about $2.52 each. FeverAll's ladder runs 80 mg infant, 120 mg children's, 325 mg junior. Amazon's title for this one says Infant. The milligram figure is the fact; the descriptive word is not.

If 120 mg is your strength and you want a spare carton somewhere else, the two-pack at $26.99 for 12 works out to about $2.25 each, which is cheaper per suppository than the single box. Full head to head against the infant strength: FeverAll infant vs children's.

What it is. Enemeez Kids is a mini-enema rather than a suppository: a small single-use unit whose active is docusate sodium, a stool softener, with the listing title stating ages 2 to 12. That age band is why it appears on a page otherwise dominated by products that stop at 5.

The count is not published in the listing title, so we compute no cost per use. Enemeez also lists a DocuSol Enemeez Kids version at $14.79. For the full enema picture, including the Fleet and Pedia-Lax children's saline enemas, see best enemas for kids and Pedia-Lax vs Fleet children's enema.

The saving is unusually large. The Pedia-Lax 3-pack is $21.11 for three boxes of 6, so 18 applicators at about $1.17 each. The single box is $12.81 for 6, about $2.14. That is close to a 45 percent drop per use for the identical product, which is a bigger multipack gap than anything on the fever side of this page.

Fleet also sells a bundle of the 3-pack with the chewable tablets at $38.09 for households that want the oral option beside the rectal one. The chewables are covered in best kids laxatives, and the whole Pedia-Lax range is in the Pedia-Lax review.