Maintenance treatment in childhood constipation.A randomized placebo-controlled intervention study

Børneafdelingen Kolding0 个研究点开始时间: 2013年7月2日最近更新: 2016年10月17日

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•Referred children to the pediatric out patient clinic with either constipation or fecal incontinence, age 2 to 16 years.
•Children must meet the ROME III criteria. This means that children below 4 years must meet at least 2 of the following criteria during a month, children above 4 years must meet at least 2 of the criteria at least once a week for 2 months:
•Two or fewer bowel movements weekly.
•More than one episode of fecal incontinence weekly.
•Painful defecation.
•Occasional passage of large stools.
•Display of retentive posturing and withholding behavior.
•Large stools in the rectum identified by digital examination or palpable on abdominal examination.
•Rome III criteria is developed by scientists and widely internationally accepted among research in childhood constipation.
•Are the trial subjects under 18? yes
•Number of subjects for this age range: 125
•F.1.2 Adults (18-64 years) no
•F.1.2.1 Number of subjects for this age range 0
•F.1.3 Elderly (>=65 years) no
•F.1.3.1 Number of subjects for this age range 0

•Children not eligible for participation is children who receive treatment with medications known to affect bowel function, apart from laxatives, within a 2-month period and children e.g. with known organic causes of constipation including Hirschsprung disease, previous surgery on the colon or inflammatory bowel disease.

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Børneafdelingen Kolding