Ibs

A lot of kids can't give you an amazing stool history and they'll very much focus on what happened in the past week or so. But really what I'm trying to assess out is stool pattern, whether that's veering towards constipation,. Whether that's veered towards diarrhea or mixed. What is the rate of switching between different stool types? Is this someone who will have three days of horrific diarrhea and then all of a sudden doesn't poop for two weeks? Or is this someone that has much longer periods within a certain stool pattern? And I find that really helpful not only to direct what treatment you want to offer and apply, but also because it becomes very easy to start chasing