Constipation in Infants and Young Children

Psychogenic Megacolon in Children: The Implications of Bowel Negativism

“…Accordingly, they recognize the importance of disabusing parents of such prejudices in the treatment of the child's constipation. Mac Keith (1955), Reichert (1955) and James (1955) all stress the need to emphasize to parents the wide range of normality in bowel function during infancy in order to avoid their unwarranted alarm. In the present series, the longest period of absolute constipation through resistance to defaecation was 83 days (Case 2), during which time the child, aged 3, continued to enjoy perfectly good health and remained symptom-free, eating normally and showing abundant energy throughout.…”

A CLINICAL INVESTIGATION OF FECAL pH IN GERIATRIC CONSTIPATION: CORRECTIVE THERAPY

“…For this purpose we chose a nutritive food concentrate derived from the natural enzymatic digestion of barley (Maltsupex) 1 . It has previously been mentioned in the literature in regard to its efficacy in the treatment of constipation and pruritus ani (7–14).…”