Learn common causes of constipation, such as diet, hydration, and lifestyle changes, along with symptoms and potential ...

Q: Is it important to have a bowel movement on a daily basis? A gastroenterologist told me that it is an old wives’ tale that you must have a daily bowel movement. He said I should not take stool ...

There’s a lot of confusion around constipation, say scientists, who are calling for a new medical definition for the issue. King’s College London researchers say the public’s perception of ...

A panel of gastroenterologists from five countries has proposed a working definition for "occasional constipation" that recognizes the wide variation in symptoms and patient perceptions of a problem ...

Most of us would assume we’d be able to tell if we were constipated, but new research has revealed the way people define constipation isn’t actually correct. Constipation is where you have difficultly ...

Constipation means different things to different people. Some people experience strain when they try to go to the bathroom, while others have what they term ‘bloating’. Some patients complain that ...

Surgery for refractory constipation should be a last resort, used only after comprehensive physiologic and psychological ...

Constipation affects one in seven otherwise healthy people (Picture: Getty) The way we currently define constipation might not be entirely correct, according to new research. A team at King’s College ...

As a pediatric urologist, I treat children of all ages with a variety of toileting difficulties, including bedwetting, daytime wetting, encopresis (poop accidents), chronic urinary tract infections, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A group of European gastroenterologists has established a definition of failure of a treatment to provide ...