title: [Rectal prolapse in a 3-year-8-month-old child].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Starting from a recent clinical case, we present the different causes of rectal prolapse and their specific treatments. In this case, the relation to infectious colitis was questionable.
  
  
  METHODS
  This 3-year-8-month-old boy had repetitive rectal prolapses with phlegmy and bloody diarrhea, with reduction increasingly difficult. Stool analysis was negative but pseudomembranous colitis was found with coloscopy and was confirmed by biopsy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Hygienic and dietary measures are the first steps in the treatment rectal prolapse. Pseudomembranous colitis, often related to Clostridium difficile toxins; is a severe form of postantibiotic diarrhea. Its treatment is based on oral antibiotic therapy with metronidazole or vancomycin for 10 days. Rectal prolapsus in children is cured without recurrence in 98% of cases.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In the case reported herein, rectal prolapse did not recur after diarrhea recovery with antibiotic therapy, suggesting a causative link with pseudomembranous colitis.
authors.affiliation: Clinique médicale pédiatrique, hôpital mère-enfant, 7, quai Moncousu, 44093 Nantes cedex 1, France.
authors.forename: C Frollo
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: de Kerlivio
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Willot
authors.forename: M-C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Machet
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lanotte
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Maurage
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002675:Child, Preschool; D016360:Clostridioides difficile; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology; D004761:Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012005:Rectal Prolapse / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy*
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents