title: Bowel frequency in healthy children.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Clinica Pediatrica Universita di Milano, Italy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fontana
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bianchi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cataldo
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Conti Nibali
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cucchiara
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gobio Casali
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Iacono
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sanfilippo
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Torre
mesh_terms: 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