sentences:  Liquid paraffin is primarily used as a pediatric laxative in medicine and is a popular treatment for constipation and encopresis.Because of its ease of titration, the drug is convenient to synthesize.It acts primarily as a stool lubricant, and is thus not associated with abdominal cramps, diarrhea, flatulence, disturbances in electrolytes, or tolerance over long periods of usage, side effects that osmotic and stimulant laxatives often engender (however, some literature suggests that these may still occur).