This is PediCast.

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello, everyone, and welcome once again to Pediacast.

It's a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike coming to you from the campus of a nationwide children's hospital.

We're in Columbus, Ohio.

It is episode 292 for July 30th, 2014.

We're calling this one constipation.

I want to welcome everyone to the show.

So we have another nuts and bolts program lined up for you this week.

This time on a topic near and dear, I'm sure, to lots of you out there, constipation,

whether it's your baby who isn't pooping as often as you think he or she should be

poop.

And yes, pediatricians are allowed to use the word poop.

It's an industry term.

And it's not just babies, you know, it may be

your school age kids, your teenager. It may be you. Really, constipation is something that

affects just about every family in one form or another, or at least someone in the family that

you know. And of course, in our usual fashion, we're going to cover all aspects of constipation,

including the definition. So what's normal? What's not normal? Signs and symptoms, there are lots of

them. Some are intuitive. Others may be surprising. Diagnosis, how do you determine if your child is

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