Encopresis, the Glossary
Encopresis is voluntary or involuntary passage of feces outside of toilet-trained contexts (fecal soiling) in children who are four years or older and after an organic cause has been excluded.[1]
Table of Contents
18 relations: Anismus, Conduct disorder, Constipation, Contingency management, DSM-5, Fecal incontinence, Feces, Gastrocolic reflex, Lactulose, Macrogol, Megacolon, Mineral oil, Oppositional defiant disorder, Pediatrics, Prevalence, Psychiatry, Suppository, Toilet training.
- Constipation
- Mental disorders diagnosed in childhood
- Symptoms and signs: Digestive system and abdomen
Anismus
Anismus or dyssynergic defecation is the failure of normal relaxation of pelvic floor muscles during attempted defecation.
Conduct disorder
Conduct disorder (CD) is a mental disorder diagnosed in childhood or adolescence that presents itself through a repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior that includes theft, lies, physical violence that may lead to destruction, and reckless breaking of rules, in which the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate norms are violated. Encopresis and Conduct disorder are mental disorders diagnosed in childhood.
See Encopresis and Conduct disorder
Constipation
Constipation is a bowel dysfunction that makes bowel movements infrequent or hard to pass.
See Encopresis and Constipation
Contingency management
Contingency management (CM) is the application of the three-term contingency (or operant conditioning), which uses stimulus control and consequences to change behavior.
See Encopresis and Contingency management
DSM-5
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), is the 2013 update to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the taxonomic and diagnostic tool published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA).
Fecal incontinence
Fecal incontinence (FI), or in some forms, encopresis, is a lack of control over defecation, leading to involuntary loss of bowel contents, both liquid stool elements and mucus, or solid feces. Encopresis and Fecal incontinence are Symptoms and signs: Digestive system and abdomen.
See Encopresis and Fecal incontinence
Feces
Feces (or faeces;: faex) are the solid or semi-solid remains of food that was not digested in the small intestine, and has been broken down by bacteria in the large intestine.
Gastrocolic reflex
The gastrocolic reflex or gastrocolic response is a physiological reflex that controls the motility, or peristalsis, of the gastrointestinal tract following a meal.
See Encopresis and Gastrocolic reflex
Lactulose
Lactulose is a non-absorbable sugar used in the treatment of constipation and hepatic encephalopathy.
Macrogol
Macrogol, also known as polyethylene glycol (PEG), is used as a medication to treat constipation in children and adults.
Megacolon
Megacolon is an abnormal dilation of the colon (also called the large intestine).
Mineral oil
Mineral oil is any of various colorless, odorless, light mixtures of higher alkanes from a mineral source, particularly a distillate of petroleum, as distinct from usually edible vegetable oils.
See Encopresis and Mineral oil
Oppositional defiant disorder
Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is listed in the DSM-5 under Disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders and defined as "a pattern of angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, or vindictiveness". Encopresis and Oppositional defiant disorder are mental disorders diagnosed in childhood.
See Encopresis and Oppositional defiant disorder
Pediatrics
Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics or pædiatrics) is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.
Prevalence
In epidemiology, prevalence is the proportion of a particular population found to be affected by a medical condition (typically a disease or a risk factor such as smoking or seatbelt use) at a specific time.
Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of deleterious mental conditions.
Suppository
A suppository is a dosage form used to deliver medications by insertion into a body orifice (any opening in the body), where it dissolves or melts to exert local or systemic effects. Encopresis and suppository are constipation.
See Encopresis and Suppository
Toilet training
Toilet training (also potty training or toilet learning) is the process of training someone, particularly a toddler or infant, to use the toilet for urination and defecation.
See Encopresis and Toilet training
See also
Constipation
- Constipation
- Constipation in children
- Encopresis
- Enema
- Fecal impaction
- Functional constipation
- Laxatives
- Spatula Mundani
- Suppository
Mental disorders diagnosed in childhood
- Abandoned child syndrome
- Adopted child syndrome
- Attachment disorder
- Bipolar disorder in children
- Callous and unemotional traits
- Child Mania Rating Scale
- Child pyromaniac
- Childhood schizophrenia
- Cognitive disengagement syndrome
- Conduct disorder
- Depression in childhood and adolescence
- Disinhibited attachment disorder
- Disinhibited social engagement disorder
- Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder
- Elective mutism
- Emotional and behavioral disorders
- Encopresis
- Gender dysphoria in children
- Hyperlexia
- Jordan's syndrome
- Language delay
- Learning disability
- List of stutterers
- Masklophobia
- Mental disorders diagnosed in childhood
- Neurodevelopmental disorders
- Nocturnal enuresis
- Oppositional defiant disorder
- Personality development disorder
- Pica (disorder)
- Reactive attachment disorder
- School refusal
- Selective mutism
- Separation anxiety disorder
- Tourette syndrome
Symptoms and signs: Digestive system and abdomen
- Abdominal distension
- Abdominal guarding
- Abdominal pain
- Acute abdomen
- Aerophagia
- Aphagia
- Ascites
- Bad breath
- Bilious fever
- Bloating
- Burping
- Cancer and nausea
- Castell's sign
- Defecation
- Diarrhea
- Dysphagia
- Encopresis
- Esophageal dysphagia
- Fecal incontinence
- Flatulence
- Gastric distension
- Heartburn
- Hemolytic jaundice
- Hepatomegaly
- Hepatosplenomegaly
- Jaundice
- Massouh's sign
- Nausea
- Nixon's sign
- Obstructed defecation
- Odynophagia
- Omental infarction
- Organomegaly
- Oropharyngeal dysphagia
- Rectal discharge
- Rectal pain
- Rectal tenesmus
- Rovsing's sign
- Sonographic Murphy sign
- Spastic intestinal obstruction
- Splenomegaly
- Steatorrhea
- Stomach rumble
- Surgical management of fecal incontinence
- Tympany
- Vomiting
- Wilderness-acquired diarrhea
- Xerostomia
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encopresis
Also known as Nonorganic encopresis.