Singulair and severe constipation

My 9 year old daughter has been on singular for several years now for allergy and asthmatic type of symptoms. This year she was in third grade and she has struggled all year and her teachers say that she day dreams alot and seems like she can't controll maintaining focus. That she just don't have the attention she needs. She has trouble memorizing things like multiplecation facts. So i finally decided to take her to a phsycologist and she felt like she may be depressed and also they tested her for add. Before all of this i actually had her tested for diabetes because she is tired all of the time and urinates often. Well those tests came back fine. Her phsycologist said the results from her add test came back that she was add. My daughter's father was dead set on medicating her so he started searching and came across this web site. Now that i have read these i am not sure that she has add at all. Because she also has had nightmares and leg cramps, and severe constipation. It just never occurred to me that it could have been her allergy med. I have taken her off of the singular and plan to test her again in a few months for add and see if there is a difference in the results. Before we go down the road to med. for add.

My daughter, now 6, has taken Singulair on and off for the last 2-3 years for asthma. It works but the side effects are not worth it. My daughter has had encoupresis (severe constipation causing accidents) since starting the drug, as well as mood swings. Because she has also had to take Flovent (also Advair, Pulmicort) and Albuterol we have never been sure which drug was the culprit. We took her off Singulair at the end of the summer in 2006 and kept her on the Flovent and Albuterol (as needed). We got the encoupresis under control and her mood dramatically improved. This January 2007 she started having allergic reactions everyday at school and was going to the school nurse to get Benydryl. We decided to put her back on the Singulair a couple of weeks ago. The encoupresis symptoms have returned and the moodiness is horrible. We are stopping the medicine from now on, does anyone know of an alternative that helps with food, grass and animal allergies??? Thanks for your help.