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What is Encopresis? How to manage it? What are the precautions to be taken? What are the signs and symptoms? What is the cause of this disease? How to treat it? How can homeopathy help you? All of this answered, in this post and of course our doctors always there to help you. Just fill in your details in the form down below and we will answer all your questions for FREE!

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What is encopresis?

It is defined as the repetitive, voluntary or involuntary, passage of stool in inappropriate places by children of 4 years age and older and to exercise the bowel control. Approximately 4% of all the children 4-17 years of age will experience encopresis.

What causes encopresis?

Many children with encopresis have underlying constipation. Stool accumulates in the rectum and becomes desiccated, more difficult and painful to pass.

Children who develop encopresis may develop abnormal stretching and enlargement of the rectal area that reduces the reflux urge to stool.

The impacted stool mass allow upstream semisolid stool to leak around the downstream stool obstruction causing soiling in clothes. Occasional chunks of the stool are passed without child desire.

What are the symptoms of encopresis?

Children with encopresis may successfully stool every day and evacuation of their bowel is incomplete.

Encopretic children commonly defecate in places inappropriate to the social context.

Children with encopresis seem oblivious to either stool staining of their clothes or heavy clothes odor they produce.

Is Encopresis a mental disorder?

Encopresis is less common than enuresis. Approximately 1% of 5-year old children suffering from Encopresis. About 3% of all children treated for a mental disorder meet criteria for the condition. Encopresis is more common in males than in females.

Is Encopresis a medical condition?

Encopresis is the soiling of underwear with stool by children who are past the age of toilet training. Because each child achieves bowel control at his or her own, doctor do not consider stool soiling to be a medical condition unless the child is at least 4 years old.

How do you treat Encopresis?

There should be reestablishing of the bowel evacuation regimen and development of a program to ensure maintenance of stool elimination pattern.

Breastfeed infants have stooling problems when compared with formula-fed peers.

Diluted juice will promote a softer and increased volume stool.

An adequate intake of water, as well as activity, will promote colonic health.

Establishment of a daily routine of toilet time has been shown to be very helpful.

What is commonly indicated Homeopathy remedies for Encopresis?

-Sil

-Thuja

-Abrot

For more information, you can visit WebMD and Wikipedia.