La incontinencia fecal es cuando un niño tiene evacuaciones intestinales accidentales. Un tipo de incontinencia fecal, llamada encopresis, ocurre cuando un niño se resiste a defecar. Esto eventualmente puede hacer que las heces impactadas se acumulen en el intestino grueso y, cuando eso sucede, las heces líquidas pueden filtrarse alrededor de las heces impactadas y salir por el ano.

Otras causas de la incontinencia fecal incluyen condiciones médicas como el estreñimiento crónico o condiciones con las que nace un niño que pueden alterar el control intestinal como la espina bífida.

Tratamiento

Debe visitar a su pediatra, ya que la incontinencia fecal puede ser causada por problemas dietéticos (como no beber suficiente agua o comer alimentos ricos en fibra) o también por problemas de comportamiento o emocionales.

Su médico podrá coordinar la atención con un médico que se especialice en trastornos digestivos en niños (gastroenterólogo pediátrico) o un proveedor de salud mental, si es necesario.

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Jeffrey M. Rothschild, MD, MPH.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Dr. Rothschild has been a faculty member at Brigham and Women’s Hospital where he is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He currently practices as a hospitalist at Newton Wellesley Hospital. In 1978, Dr. Rothschild received his MD at the Medical College of Wisconsin and trained in internal medicine followed by a fellowship in critical care medicine. He also received an MP...

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