The management of chronic constipation

Paediatrics and Child Health

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 435-440

  Gillespie, Mairi C ^a,b   Price, Katherine J ^a,b  

^a SHEFFIELD CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Sheffield ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

constipation; faecal incontinence; laxatives; macrogol; soiling

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; ENEMA; LACTULOSE; LAXATIVE; LIQUID PARAFFIN; LOPERAMIDE; MACROGOL; MACROGOL 3350; OPIATE DERIVATIVE; OXYBUTYNIN; PICOSULFATE SODIUM; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHILD CARE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD REARING; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOSTOMY; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION DISORDER; DEFECATION HABIT; DIET THERAPY; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; FAMILY LIFE; FECES IMPACTION; FECES INCONTINENCE; FLUID INTAKE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MILK INTOLERANCE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 52049117167     PISSN: 17517222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paed.2008.07.008     Document Type: Article

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