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 is a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike, coming to you from nationwide at Children's Hospital.

We're in Columbus, Ohio.

It's episode 481 for January 12th, 2021.

We're calling this one potty training, bedwetting, and other pee and poop problems.

I want to welcome all of you to the program.

So we have another important topic for you this week, one that spans multiple age groups

from toddlers through teenagers, as we consider potty training and bedwetting and other

pee and poop problems.

It turns out there is an underlying condition that is often related to all of these issues,

and that problem is constipation, which we've talked about numerous times on this program.

We have even devoted entire episodes to constipation.

For instance, Pediacast episode 292, and that one would be a terrific companion

listen to today's episode.

I'm going to put a link to it in the show notes for this episode 481 over at pdaacast.org

so you can find it easily.

Today we're going to talk about constipation again,

but this time in particular to how it relates to potty training and bedwetting and also

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