What causes fecal incontinence in children?

Every parent hopes that their children can be healthy, because health is the greatest happiness. But such expectations are not something that everyone can realize. Children always have one disease or another. For example, some children suffer from fecal incontinence, which often makes their bodies and clothes smell bad, which is very distressing for parents. So, what caused this?

1. Developmental defects of the nervous system: Congenital lumbar meningocele or spina bifida may be accompanied by anal incontinence. The patient's external sphincter and puborectalis muscle lose their normal nerve innervation, have no contraction function, and are in a relaxed state. And because both the sensory and motor systems are affected, the rectal mucosa lacks a sense of expansion when filled with feces, cannot arouse the urge to defecate or initiate defecation, and the feces in the rectum can be discharged at any time. Children with this disease often suffer from urinary incontinence.

2 Anorectal malformation: Anorectal malformation, especially high-positioned malformation accompanied by sacral malformation, is not uncommon for people to suffer from neurological defects. According to Jiehioiiikhh's analysis, about 10% of postoperative anal incontinence is caused by this reason. The main causes of anal incontinence after surgery for middle and low-position deformities are surgical injury, infection and other factors. For example, cloaca malformation, mainly in which the rectum, anal canal, urethra and vagina of female infants are combined into one hole, and infants with high-positioned anus often suffer from fecal incontinence after surgery. Congenital dementia, meningocele, multiple scleroderma, etc. can all cause fecal incontinence.

3. Trauma: Trauma damages the anorectal ring, causing the sphincter to lose its sphincter function and leading to fecal incontinence. Such as stab wounds, cuts, burns, frostbite and lacerations (mainly perineal lacerations during childbirth), as well as injuries from anorectal surgery, such as anal fistula, hemorrhoids, rectal prolapse, rectal cancer, etc., which damage the anal sphincter and cause fecal incontinence.

In addition to the above reasons, some children have neurological diseases in the brain, which damages the nerves that control defecation and causes fecal incontinence; some children have problems with the anorectum, such as anorectal incompleteness, anal relaxation, etc., which makes it impossible to control their bowel movements.