Parent Tip for Determining Cause of Accidents

When a child is having accidents and the caregiver is attempting to sort out whether or not the accidents are being caused by too much laxative or if the accidents are from leakage around retained stool, it can be helpful to ask the child ‘Did you know you had an accident? Did you realize this was happening?’  If the child answers ‘no’, there could be retained stool and the laxative may be causing softer stool to leak around the harder stool.  ...

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