Constipation in children – causes

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Causes of constipation in children

  • Secondary to fever or dehydration
  • mechanical acute intestinal obstruction
  • chronic
    • surgical
      • congenital anal stenosis
      • treated imperforate anus
      • Hirschsprung’s disease
    • neurological
      • myelomeningocele and other spinal lesions
      • cerebral palsy
    • medical
      • hypothyroid
      • renal tubular acidosis
      • lead poisoning
      • coeliac disease
    • functional

Investigations

  • abdominal X-Ray (AXR)
  • contrast enema – low-small intestinal or large intestinal obstruction
  • anomanometry

 

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