Criteria for Pediatric Constipation

Age of the patient

Number of bowel movements per week

Number of soiling episodes per week

Number of times per month that the patient passes of a very large amount of stool

Does the patient have a palpable abdominal or rectal mass?

Is the mass due to a tumor?

Number of times per week that stool is passed somewhere other than into a toilet

Does this passage of stool occur at regular intervals?

Is there an organic disease that can explain involuntary stool passage?