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J Pediatr (Rio J). 2000 May-Jun;76(3):222-6.
[Signs and symptoms associated with chronic constipation]

[Article in Portuguese]

Motta ME, Silva GA.

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco(UFPE), Recife, PE, Brazil.

OBJECTIVE: To check whether signs and symptoms referred to by parents are associated with chronic constipation. METHODS: A comparative survey was carried out in a group of children with constipation and another group without constipation selected from a random sample. Data were collected from mothers using a structured questionnaire. Children with chronic constipation were expected to have undergone painful defecation or defecation with effort during at least thirty days with stools of hard consistency and/or bowel movements frequency below three times per week. RESULTS: An assessment was made of the variables: inappetence, abdominal distension, abdominal pain, fecal bleeding, soiling, urinary problems and vomit. Statistical differences were observed among children with and without constipation for inappetence, abdominal pain and faecal bleeding (p<0.05). CONCLUSIONS: An association was detected between the signs and symptoms analyzed and constipation. This study stresses the need to investigate accurately whether children have constipation and the extent of its relationship with those complications.

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OBJECTIVE: To study the frequency of chronic constipation in childhood at a Primary Health Care Unit and to observe its characteristics in this population. METHODS: The sample consisted of 313 children aged between one and 10 years treated at the Centro de Saude Escola, in the district of Tiberio, in the town of Ribeirao Preto. Among these, 84 children with chronic constipation were selected. The chi-squared test was used to compare the groups of constipated and nonconstipated children (p=0.01). RESULTS: The prevalence of chronic constipation was 26.8%. In the group of chronic constipation, 85.7% of the children had hardened stools, 25% showed reduction in fecal mass, 17.9% had an interval between evacuations longer than 2 days (constipated children), 14.3% revealed fecal soiling and 21.4% presented blood in stools. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of chronic constipation was high and the interval between evacuations was as an important diagnostic criterion for the selection of constipated children.

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OBJECTIVE: To study the relationship between breast-feeding, dietary fiber intake and constipation in infants. METHODS: The study population consisted of 275 infants consecutively enrolled in two Primary Care Clinic in the city of Embu, in the Great Sao Paulo. The feeding pattern were classified in predominantly breast-feeding, partially breast and cow's milk feeding and artificial feeding. Constipation was defined by the elimination of hard stool associated with one of the following: painful or difficult defecation, hard or round cracked stools and less than three defecations a week. False constipation was defined by the elimination of soft stools without pain or difficulty but with less than three defecations a week. RESULTS: Constipation was found in 25.1% (69/275). False constipation was found only in the first semester of life in 5.1% of 159 infants. The prevalence of constipation was higher between 6 and 24 months (38.8%, 45/116) than in the first semester of life (15.1%, p=0.000). A model of logistic regression demonstrated that infants under artificial feeding were 4.53 times more liable to develop constipation than infants who were predominantly breastfed. The daily dietary fiber intake (g/day) was similar (p=0.57) among the constipated (median=9.0 g; 25th and 75th percentiles: 6.9-13.1 g) and non-constipated (median=8.8 g; 25th and 75th percentiles: 6.1-12.9 g). CONCLUSIONS: Dietary fiber intake was similar in constipated and non-constipated infants. Breast-feeding serves as a protection factor against the development of constipation in the first semester of life.

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