The other day I reviewed the abdominal x-ray of an 11-year-old boy with persistent bedwetting. The boy’s rectum was jam packed with stool, and the mass extended upward to his belly button like a column of poop.
Should students get to use school restrooms whenever they want?
Not according to a team of first-grade teachers in Las Vegas, who last week told parents in a letter: “Students are wasting valuable learning time on bathroom breaks.”
Three more children with toileting difficulties are dead.
It turns out that AJ Freund, the Illinois 5-year-old reported missing by his parents, was actually bludgeoned by them and forced to take a 20-minute cold shower after he lied ab...
“But my daughter can’t be constipated — she poops every day!”
That’s what I often hear from parents when I explain why their child is wetting the bed or having daytime pee or poop accidents: the child is constipated. Big time.
Doctors routinely dismiss bedwetting and daytime accidents as “normal,” assure parents their kids will outgrow the accidents, and discourage families from pursuing treatment more aggressive than Miralax.
The other day a mom in our bedwetting support group posted a question we’ve heard, oh, about 2,000 times: “What is an easy way — if it exists — to get kids to eat fruits and veggies?”
This mom noted that her kids will even skip a meal if...
