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Rome IV criteria: infant dyschezia

At least 10 minutes of straining and crying before soft stool in healthy infants under 9 months

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Rome IV criteria: infant dyschezia: What does this calculator compute?

Checks the Rome IV criteria G6 for infant dyschezia (Benninga 2016): at least 10 minutes of straining and crying before successful or unsuccessful passage of soft stools in an infant under 9 months of age without other health problems.

Rome IV criteria: infant dyschezia: Which sources is this calculator based on?

Benninga MA, Nurko S, Faure C, Hyman PE, St. James Roberts I, Schechter NL: Childhood Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders: Neonate/Toddler (Gastroenterology 150:1443–1455) (2016); Hyams JS, Di Lorenzo C, Saps M, Shulman RJ, Staiano A, van Tilburg M: Childhood Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders: Child/Adolescent (Gastroenterology 150:1456–1468) (2016)