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What Makes The 4 Year Old To Continuously Do Her Bowels In Her Pants?
my 4yr old grand daughter poops in her pants almost every half hour,,,when she was baby her mother had to use stoll softeners and laxitives etc to make her bowls move could this have cause a problem now,,she never pees her pants just poo but i never seen a child poop pants so much im worried,,it seems like her bowls are constanly moving,,,not normal?
Mon, 27 Oct 2014
Hi...please do not be worried. What you are describing is fitting into text book description of a condition called Encopresis - wherein the child will be initially constipated and due to this the kid holds back the stools which become hard and the freshly formed stools will seep around the old hard stools and come out when it is uncontrollable. Once constipation is treated well, this condition will get better by itself. Do not worry.
Regards- Dr. Sumanth
Regards- Dr. Sumanth
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