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#314 Constipation: When the Flow Won’t Go with Dr. Iris Wang

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Do You Have a Normal Transit Constipation?

Lokyounow sto: Can you get that just from can you say some one has a normal transit constipation just from the history? Or does it really require some of this more advanced testing in order to put them in that bucket. Ah, i don't hesitate to say buckets of constipation, but, er, no. So if we look at the algorithms in the guide lines, the first step, after you rule a secondary constipution, is actually a trial of treatment. And so it's reasonable to treat their constipution. It's only if that constipation ment has an inadequate response that then it becomes important to say, ok, let's vina type them

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