We are a treatment center dedicated to helping children who have difficulty with encopresis, severe constipation, stool withholding behavior, and any child with toilet training problems, including loss of urine control. We also often see children who are toilet training refusers, or who prefer their pull-ups over the toilet for stooling.
Other younger children age 18 months to 3 years) are also seen for severe constipation. Even young children can exhibit stool withholding primarily due to anxiety about painful stools. Often families will call withholding behavior the "poop dance", a funny term to describe an uncomfortable problem for the child. Often the child will assume strange postures when they have to go. Some will cross their legs, or sit on their heels or the edge of a chair. Others will lie on the floor and tighten their buttocks and legs and refuse to move. Some will hide out behind a sofa or in their room, and wait for the urge to pass.
Stomach-aches, poor appetite, are often noticed periodically. Left untreated, this is a medical problem that soon can become an emotional problem. The child is often isolated by their peers or made fun of at school. Families unknowingly scold or blame the child when he or she cannot stop the soiling as it is involuntary. The children carry a deep sense of shame and often are angry because they don't know what is wrong, but they do know they aren't doing it on purpose. Their body seems out of their control and they don't know anybody else who has this terrible problem.
We know what devastating effects Encopresis can have on a child and the repercussions experienced by their families. More encopresis information continued on (INFO) Information Page. Click the "Info" button/link to find out more.
Nancy Glass-Quattrin, RN, BSN, BCIAC
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Notice: Due to the high volume of requests for information from all over the U.S., we are unable to personally return phone calls out of state/country. The best place to find resources locally would be the nearest children's hospital, hospital with a pediatric department, or hospital affiliated with a university that has a pediatrics department. We know of just a few treatment centers that are university based and of course don't know which pediatrician in your area is familiar with encopresis management. Asking your child's pediatricain for a pediatric gastroenterologist might be of some help.
Please note that we cannot recommend treatment for a child we are not treating.
Appointment information: (N.W. USA) Upon receipt of the referral/letter of medical necessity
from your doctor we will set up an appointment.
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