Bowel frequency in healthy children.
Bowel frequency was recorded, on a diary sheet basis, in 662 children from six Italian cities. There is a wide interindividual variability, showing a sharp decrease with age; we report the distribution of the percentiles in the different age groups. Among infants, the breast-fed ones pass significantly more stools than the formula-fed.
Fontana
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Clinica Pediatrica Universita di Milano, Italy.
Bianchi
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C
Cataldo
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F
Conti Nibali
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S
Cucchiara
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S
Gobio Casali
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L
Iacono
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G
Sanfilippo
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M
Torre
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G
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003672:Defecation; D005769:Gastrointestinal Motility; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007225:Infant Food; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007558:Italy; D015337:Multicenter Studies as Topic; D012016:Reference Values; D013997:Time Factors