Clinical Study
The Effect of Probiotics on Childhood Constipation: A Randomized Controlled Double Blind Clinical Trial
Table 3
Symptom changes at the end of the 1st week.
| Symptom | Treatment frequency, percent | Placebo frequency, percent | value |
| With fecal incontinence | 4 (30.8%) | 7 (77.8%) | 0.030 | Without fecal incontinence | 11 (69.2%) | 2 (22.2%) | Total (fecal incontinence) | 15 (100%) | 9 (100%) | With abdominal pain | 7 (43.8%) | 12 (85.7%) | 0.017 | Without abdominal pain | 9 (56.2%) | 2 (14.3%) | Total (abdominal pain) | 16 (100%) | 14 (100%) | With weight gain | 10 (41.7%) | 1 (4.2%) | 0.002 | Without weight gain | 14 (58.3%) | 23 (95.8) | Total weight gain | 24 (100%) | 24 (100%) |
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