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Acta pediátrica de México
versión On-line ISSN 2395-8235versión impresa ISSN 0186-2391
Resumen
DE LA TORRE MONDRAGON, Luis y HERNANDEZ VEZ, Gabriela. Functional Constipation in Pediatrics. Acta pediatr. Méx [online]. 2014, vol.35, n.5, pp.411-422. ISSN 2395-8235.
Constipation is a common disease and one of the most frequent reasons of visits in pediatric clinics, complications related to constipation denote an inadequate diagnosis and/or treatment. This article is addressed for physicians who provide care to children with functional constipation and, it proposes in a practical manner how to diagnose this problem, emphasizing the essential information that should be obtained from the clinical history and from the workup helpful for its diagnosis. The "bowel management program" is the proposed treatment; this program has a rate success higher than 90%, even, in patients with severe chronic constipation with frequent relapses and multiple treatments.
Palabras llave : Constipation; laxative; enema; megarectum.