Toilet Training and Enuresis

Dimson, S. B.

doi:10.1136/bmj.2.5153.666

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“…Constipation has been cited as a cause of recurrent abdominal pain (Dimson 1971) although it is not included as a diagnostic group in all reported series. Constipation as defined in this series (Freeman 1978) includes children with colonic and rectal dysfunction.…”

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Acute Abdominal Pain in Children

Drake

1980

J R Soc Med

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During a twelve-month period, 416 children with acute abdominal pain required emergency admission to Southampton General Hospital; 46% had operations. Appendicitis was the commonest organic cause of acute abdominal pain identified (31%). Constipation (9%) can present as acute abdominal pain simulating appendicitis. All children should have a urine sample examined microscopically and the finding of significant pyuria is suggestive, but not diagnostic, of a urinary tract infection (7%). Mesenteric adenitis, which can only be diagnosed with certainty at laparotomy, was less common (4%). Despite careful clinical assessment and follow up, 45% of children in this series remained undiagnosed. Sedation but not analgesia may assist in the diagnosis of the acute abdomen in children.

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Acute Abdominal Pain in Children

Drake

1980

J R Soc Med

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“…But the very ubiquity of both toilet training and constipation is also in keeping with their relation as cause and effect. Moreover most of the data-such as those of Sears, Maccoby & Levin (1957), Douglas & Blomfield (1958) and Dimson (1959)-that are sometimes held to refute the view that toilet training is traumatic cannot answer this question, since they show that virtually all mothers perform toilet training, and any comparisons are merely between groups in which it was first inflicted at allegedly different (but generally excessively early) ages.…”

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“…. when his nurse wants him to' (Freud, 1949, p. 64), or be accused of resisting even 'lenient' training (Dimson, 1959); just as in everyday life he may get smacked by his exasperated mother for being unable to do what she has been told he should.…”

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Emotion and the motions: an inquiry into the causes and prevention of functional disorders of defecation

Woodmansey¹

1967

British Journal of Medical Psychology

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“…The medical literature on enuresis has been reviewed by Dimson (1959) and Bakwin (1961). The papers mentioned in these reviews deal almost exclusively with children brought up in Western countries where conditions of life and patterns of child-rearing are comparatively well-established and are not undergoing major changes.…”

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