Criteria
The Rome II Criteria for constipation require at least two of the following symptoms for 12 weeks or more over the period of a year:
- Straining with more than one-fourth of defecations
- Hard stool with more than one-fourth of defecations
- Feeling of incomplete evacuation with more than one-fourth of defecations
- Sensation of anorectal obstruction with more than one-fourth of defecations
- Manual maneuvers to facilitate more than one-fourth of defecations
- Fewer than three bowel movements per week
- Insufficient criteria for irritable bowel syndrome
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