Johns Hopkins Center Focuses on Child Constipation

Constipation in children is defined as having fewer than three bowel movements a week for three, not necessarily consecutive, months in a year. Symptoms include abdominal bloating, feeling of fullness, straining at the toilet, lumpy or hard stools or small pellet-like stools accompanied by incomplete emptying of the bowel.

The formation of this special clinic is actually a revitalization of one that used to exist at Johns Hopkins, without the behavioral component, but faded away for reasons unclear.