Why do children liek about accidents? Can constipation persist despite enemas? What's the best treatment for teen bedwetting? Dr. Steve Hodges answers parents’ questions about bedwetting, encopresis, constipation, accidents, and M.O.P.

Virtually all bedwetting is caused by hidden constipation. Here, Dr. Hodges explains how it’s missed—and why typical treatments don’t solve the problem.

Children with encopresis, nighttime wetting, and/or daytime enuresis absolutely can overcome these conditions and the chronic constipation that is the root cause.

My older child has struggled so much with enuresis and encopresis that I would do anything to avoid all that misery with my youngest. What advice do you have to potty training to prevent constipation?

As a doctor with many teenage bedwetting patients, I have two observations: 1.) Silverman’s story of shame and isolation rings true, and 2.) The Bedwetter, like many movies and TV shows, reinforces damaging myths about bedwetting.

When a child’s constipation has resolved, medication tends to work well; when a child’s rectum remains clogged with stool, drugs are pointle

We covered poop and pee withholding, bladder medication, Ex-Lax and Miralax, a recurrence of accidents in a teenager, and explosive pee acci

If parents perceive their child's bedwetting as normal, they won't question the need to buy ever-larger pull-ups for years on end.

Poop smears, aka “skid marks,” aren’t caused by a failure to use toilet paper; rather, they signal the child’s rectum is harboring stool an

By Steve Hodges, M.D. Nearly every parent who walks into my clinic asks: “All my friends' kids outgrew bedwetting, so why hasn’t mine?” I...