Constipation in Children: Understanding and Treating This Common Problem

Experts from the Pediatric Gastroenterology Clinic at Primary Children’s Hospital created this video to help parents and other caregivers understand constipation.  This video will teach you why constipation happens to children and what you can do to fix it.

0:01     Constipation in Children, a very common problem
0:58   How constipation starts
1:09   The Cycle of Constipation
1:57   A behavioral problem becomes a physical problem
3:44   Almost all of this can be fixed
4:11  The first step is a colon cleanout
5:07  The next step is to keep the colon empty
5:35  The last part of treatment is toilet time

Watch this video in Spanish: El estreñimiento en los niños: una gu...

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