Encopresis
Encopresis (en-ko-PREE-sis), sometimes called fecal incontinence or soiling, is the repeated passing of stool (usually involuntarily) into clothing. Typically it happens when impacted stool collects in the colon and rectum: the colon becomes too full and liquid stool leaks around the retained stool, staining underwear.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: W073
Diagnosis: Encopresis
US Patients:
World Patients: About 2%
Sex Ratio:
Age Onset: Age 4+
Brain Area:
Symptoms: leaking feces into underwear, not on a toilet; feces are unintentional or intentionally held and put outside the toilet
Progression:
Causes: constipation or surgery
Medications: stool softeners, enemas
Therapies: training to sit on the stool after meals; decrease dairy, bananas, cooked carrots; ncrease bran, fruits & vegetables
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4 CURRENT ARTICLES
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- Functional Constipation and Nonretentive Fecal Incontinence in Children and Adolescents: Clinical Guideline for Assessment and Treatmentby Alexander von Gontard on January 19, 2023
Functional Constipation and Nonretentive Fecal Incontinence in Children and Adolescents: Clinical Guideline for Assessment and Treatment Abstract. Objective: Constipation and fecal incontinence are common disorders in children and adolescents and are associated with incapacitation and a high rate of comorbid psychological disorders. Functional constipation and nonretentive fecal incontinence can be differentiated according to the current Rome-IV classification systems. This interdisciplinary...
- Prevalence, comorbidities and mediators of childhood anxiety disorders in urban Turkey: a national representative epidemiological studyby T Mutluer on December 16, 2022
CONCLUSION: Better understanding of childhood anxiety disorders, comorbid conditions and predictors will result in earlier diagnosis and more appropriate treatment.
- Do preoperative factors predict success of antegrade continence enemas in children?by Jack P Vernamonti on October 28, 2022
CONCLUSION: In this study, we characterized expected time to success in our population as well as identified use of a pre-operative retrograde enema program as a potential predictor of success at 3-months in children undergoing an ACE procedure.
- Enuresis and encopresis: Association with child abuse and neglectby J Dayan on September 3, 2022
CONCLUSION: Our findings support the hypothesis that enuresis and encopresis are associated with specific types of child abuse.