Table 2 Alarm signs and symptoms
From: The ten “hard” questions in pediatric functional constipation
- Delayed meconium passage |
- Onset of symptoms <1 month |
- Starting in neonatal period |
- Ribbon stools |
- Absent anal/cremasteric reflex |
- Blood in the stools in the absence of anal fissures |
- Failure to thrive or weight loss |
- Abdominal distension |
- Bilious vomiting |
- Abnormal position of anus |
- Tuft of hair on spine |
- Deep sacral dimple |
- Alteration lower extremity strength/tone/reflex |