It's super frustrating when your kid has poop accidents, but there might be a medical reason.
Calgary mom Karla Bouvier’s* daughter was still having poop and pee accidents at four years old. “We kept thinking, ‘She needs to try harder to get toBut when Bouvier brought her concerns up with their doctor, she realized the accidents weren’t her daughter’s fault: she was dealing with a medical condition called encopresis.Encopresis is the involuntary passage of stool, particularly past the developmental stage where you would expect them to control their bowel movements.
“The reason the child has no control of it is because the muscle to pull back the stool is sitting in the rectum,” says Brill. “If that area is stretched or otherwise incapacitated by a large piece of stool, you really don’t feel or control the stool.” “When you eat something, your colon says, ‘Hey, it’s time to empty ourselves,” says Mistry, which is called the gastrocolic reflex, a physiological response that stimulates the need to use the washroom after eating a meal. “So within half an hour after meals, parents can take their child to sit on the toilet for five minutes,” he explains.
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