Durban — A specialist paediatric gastroenterologist practising at Netcare St Augustine’s Hospital shares how children may display symptoms of constipation and when it is necessary to seek ...

KUALA LUMPUR - Functional constipation (FC), one of the most common gastrointestinal disorders in children, is defined as difficulty passing stool for reasons other than organic causes.

Researchers have described the neurodegeneration that occurs in the nervous system of the bowel in Batten disease, a rare and fatal genetic condition. In their latest study, a team showed that gene ...

Definition: Constipation is painful passage of stools, usually associated with crying in young children and in infants. Stool retention with voluntary withholding or a stool frequency of fewer ...

Theories suggest UTI and constipation are related, but one does not necessarily cause the other at this stage in research.