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Encopresis (cont.)

Medical Author:
Stephen Borowitz, MD
Medical Editor:
Jorge Vargas, MD
Medical Editor:
Mary L Windle, PharmD
Medical Editor:
Steven Altschuler, MD

When to Seek Medical Care

Any of the following warrants a visit to your child's primary care provider:

  • Severe, persistent, or recurrent constipation

  • Pain when passing bowel movements

  • Reluctance to pass bowel movements, including straining to hold stool in

  • Soiling in a child who is at least 4 years old

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According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third edition (DSM-III), encopresis is defined as the "repeated involuntary passage of feces into places not appropriate for that purpose...the event must take place for at least 6 months, the chronologic and mental age of the child must be at least 4 years."

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