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Treatment of Chronic Constipation in Children

The things that your child eats and drinks affect the bowel movements. Remember that we eat food to get energy and nutrition. What is left over after going through the stomach and intestines becomes a bowel movement.

Let's start with juice.

Does your child drink juice?

Yes, my child drinks some juice.

No, my child does not drink any juice.

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Online Medical Reviewer: Faculty of Harvard Medical School
Date Last Reviewed: 10/16/2006
Date Last Modified: 9/7/2006

Source: from Harvard Health Decision Guides, Harvard Health Publications, Copyright © 2007 by President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. Used with permission of StayWell.
 
 
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