This is known as fecal impaction. If you’ve been experiencing constipation for an extended period of time and have hard poop ...

But kids with inflammatory bowel disease (or IBD) get bad stomach pain and diarrhea all the time. IBD causes parts of the intestine (bowel) to get inflamed (red and swollen). It's a chronic (say: KRON ...

For older kids, I typically say stools should look like soft-serve ice cream. Stools should not be hard or dry looking. In kids who are constipated, their stools might be large (like clogging the ...

A baby probably isn't constipated if the stool (poop) is soft, no matter how often the bowel movements happen or if the baby strains to pass them. Babies who cry when having a bowel movement or have ...