 Hi, my name is Dr. Radhakrishnan. I'm a paediatric surgeon and a paediatric urologist and I work at the Manipal Hospital in Bangalore. The management of constipation in children depends on how early or how late they present to you. If they present very early on, just a good diet will help treat the constipation. However, most children present late and therefore they require a combination of medication which is usually stool softness to soften the stool as well as a strict dietary management to control the constipation. What we are actually doing here is physically getting the stool soft and keeping the stool soft for a prolonged length of time so that the child is no longer afraid to pass stool and therefore what we are doing here is a biofeedback treatment where you keep the stool soft, it doesn't hurt the child anymore and over a period of time the child loses the fear that it had initially of passing stools and that's how you treat constipation. Another important part of treatment of habitual constipation is to ensure that the child sits on the toilet whilst on the treatment and passes stool at the same time every day. This again trains the child's brain to go on a regular basis and this is again biofeedback and an important part of the treatment.