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Change in stool (constipation or diarrhea, especially with blood or mucus) Abnormal temperature (a rectal temperature less than 97.0 °F (36.1 °C) or over 100.4 °F (38.0 °C) Irritability (crying all day with few calm periods in between) Lethargy (excess sleepiness, lack of smiles or interested gaze, weak sucking lasting over six hours)
778 Conditions involving the integument and temperature regulation of fetus and newborn. 778.0 Hydrops fetalis not due to isoimmunization; 778.1 Sclerema neonatorum; 778.2 Cold injury syndrome of newborn; 778.3 Other hypothermia of newborn; 778.4 Other disturbances of temperature regulation of newborn; 778.5 Other and unspecified edema of newborn
Especially in infants, changes in formula or transitioning from breast milk to formula can cause constipation. 95% of cases of constipation in children are thought to be functional constipation (without a structural or biochemical cause). [2] Treatment of these functional causes can be focused on simply relieving the symptoms. [6]
ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO). It contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases. [1]
On 1 January 1999 the ICD-10 (without clinical extensions) was adopted for reporting mortality, but ICD-9-CM was still used for morbidity. Meanwhile, NCHS received permission from the WHO to create a clinical modification of the ICD-10, and has production of all these systems: ICD-10-CM, for diagnosis codes, replaces volumes 1 and 2. Annual ...
This is a shortened version of the eleventh chapter of the ICD-9: Complications of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Puerperium. It covers ICD codes 630 to 679. The full chapter can be found on pages 355 to 378 of Volume 1, which contains all (sub)categories of the ICD-9. Volume 2 is an alphabetical index of Volume 1.
Constipation is the most common chronic gastrointestinal disorder in adults. Depending on the definition employed, it occurs in 2% to 20% of the population. [18] [58] It is more common in women, the elderly and children. [58] Specifically constipation with no known cause affects females more often affected than males. [59]
In the type without constipation, the feces are usually well-formed, soiling is intermittent, and feces are usually deposited in a prominent location. This form may be associated with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) or conduct disorder , or may be the consequence of large anal insertions, or more likely due to chronic encopresis that has ...