With the taboos associated with discussing elimination, many parents do not know what is normal with respect to bowel motions in childhood.
Our Children’s Colorectal clinic was established by Ms Malakounides (Consultant Paediatric Surgeon) and myself at the end of 2018 to provide a dedicated clinic to children with congenital bowel conditions and for whom their prognosis necessitated specialist follow up.
Many readers will be familiar with ERIC, the Children’s Bowel and Bladder Charity, and the wealth of resources available to download.
I am passionate about the benefits of using transanal irrigation (TAI) for children with bowel problems such as chronic constipation.
A 10 year old boy with long-standing constipation for many years and ongoing issues since potty training.
We were delighted to have attended the recent Kidz to Adultz Scotland exhibition at the Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh.
Over recent years, we have been working in partnership with local therapy riding centre, Muirfield Riding Therapy (MRT).
For many years the clinical team at MacGregor Healthcare have had the privilege of working with adults living with bowel dysfunction.
Writing for publication can be a somewhat overwhelming task to many, especially in the light of demanding workloads and pressures put on clinicians in seeing an ever-increasing number of patients within the National Health Service (NHS)
Bowel dysfunction is common in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), between 35-54% suffer with chronic constipation and 29-51% with faecal incontinence.
