Normal bowel habit during the first 6 weeks in healthy, term infants

Ambulatory Child Health

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 23-26

  Griffin, Anna ^a,b   Mark Beattie, R ^a,b  

^a PETERBOROUGH DISTRICT HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bowel habit; Constipation; Infants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BABY; BIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; HABIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INFANT FEEDING; MECONIUM; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0035008869     PISSN: 13555626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1467-0658.2001.00104.x     Document Type: Article

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