Management of chronic functional constipation in childhood

Pediatric Drugs

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 33-46

  Plunkett, Adrian ^a   Phillips, Claire P ^a   Beattie, R Mark ^a  

^a SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARACHIS OIL; BISACODYL; BULKING AGENT; CISAPRIDE; DOCUSATE SODIUM; ENEMA; ERYTHROMYCIN; LACTITOL; LACTULOSE; LAXATIVE; LUBRICATING AGENT; MACROGOL 3350; MACROGOL 4000; MAGNESIUM HYDROXIDE; MANNAN; METHYLCELLULOSE; MINERAL OIL; OSMOTIC AGENT; PICOSULFATE SODIUM; PLACEBO; PROBIOTIC AGENT; PROKINETIC AGENT; SENNA EXTRACT;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANORECTAL MALFORMATION; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANOREXIA; ANUS FISSURE; ANUS SPHINCTER; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; BLOATING; CELIAC DISEASE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD REARING; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONSTIPATION; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DEFECATION HABIT; DEHYDRATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIARRHEA; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FAMILY THERAPY; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES IMPACTION; FECES INCONTINENCE; FLATULENCE; FOOD ALLERGY; GRANULOMA; HIGH FIBER DIET; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NUTRITIONAL INTOLERANCE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ONSET AGE; PALPATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PELVIS TUMOR; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; REWARD; SEXUAL ABUSE; SPINA BIFIDA; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VOMITING;

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; DRUG THERAPY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES;

EID: 33847080374     PISSN: 11745878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00148581-200709010-00004     Document Type: Review

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