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  2. Microvillous inclusion disease - Wikipedia

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    The patient is often classified as being in "intestinal failure" and treated with the cohort of patients known as "short bowel syndrome" patients. [ citation needed ] One patient from the UK was documented as achieving nutritional independence at age 3. [ 10 ]

  3. List of ICD-9 codes 760–779: certain conditions originating ...

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    This is a shortened version of the fifteenth chapter of the ICD-9: Certain Conditions originating in the Perinatal Period. It covers ICD codes 760 to 779. The full chapter can be found on pages 439 to 453 of Volume 1, which contains all (sub)categories of the ICD-9. Volume 2 is an alphabetical index of Volume 1.

  4. Encopresis - Wikipedia

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    The colon normally removes excess water from feces. If the feces or stool remains in the colon too long due to conditioned withholding or incidental constipation, so much water is removed that the stool becomes hard, and becomes painful for the child to expel in an ordinary bowel movement.

  5. Short bowel syndrome - Wikipedia

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    After resection, having a remnant small bowel length of less than 75 cm (30 in) and a remaining large bowel length of less than 57% of the original length are both associated with subsequent dependence on parenteral nutrition. [4] There is no cure for short bowel syndrome except transplant. In newborn infants, the 4-year survival rate on ...

  6. Hirschsprung's disease - Wikipedia

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    Hirschsprung's disease (HD or HSCR) is a birth defect in which nerves are missing from parts of the intestine. [1] [3] The most prominent symptom is constipation. [1]Other symptoms may include vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and slow growth. [1]

  7. Baby colic - Wikipedia

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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)

  8. Functional constipation: This typically happens when kids hold back bowel movements or after they have a gastrointestinal infection. Many children with constipation have functional constipation ...

  9. Necrotizing enterocolitis - Wikipedia

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    Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is an intestinal disease that affects premature or very low birth weight infants. [4] [1] Symptoms may include poor feeding, bloating, decreased activity, blood in the stool, vomiting of bile, multi-organ failure, and potentially death.