Are there more bowel symptoms in children with autism compared to normal children and children with other developmental and neurological disorders?: A case control study

There is considerable controversy as to whether there is an association between bowel disorders and autism. Using a bowel symptom questionnaire we compared 51 children with autism spectrum disorder with control groups of 35 children from special school and 112 from mainstream school. There was a sig...

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description There is considerable controversy as to whether there is an association between bowel disorders and autism. Using a bowel symptom questionnaire we compared 51 children with autism spectrum disorder with control groups of 35 children from special school and 112 from mainstream school. There was a significant difference in the reporting of certain bowel symptoms (constipation, diarrhoea, flatulence) and food faddiness between the autism group and the mainstream school control group. There was no significant difference between the autism group and children in the special schools except for faddiness, which is an autism specific symptom and not a bowel symptom. This study confirms previously reported findings of an increase in bowel symptoms in children with autism. It would appear, however, that this is not specifically associated with autism as bowel symptoms were reported in similar frequency to a comparison group of children with other developmental and neurological disorders.
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Autistic children
Autistic Disorder - diagnosis
Autistic Disorder - epidemiology
Biological and medical sciences
Bowel disorders
Case-Control Studies
Child
Child clinical studies
Children
Comorbidity
Comparative Analysis
Constipation
Control Groups
Developmental Disabilities
Developmental Disabilities - diagnosis
Developmental Disabilities - epidemiology
Developmental disorders
Diarrhea
Diet
Disputes
Education, Special
England
Feeding Behavior
Flatulence
Foreign Countries
Gastrointestinal Diseases - diagnosis
Gastrointestinal Diseases - epidemiology
Humans
Infantile autism
Mainstreaming (Education)
Medical sciences
Nervous System Diseases - diagnosis
Nervous System Diseases - epidemiology
Neurological disorders
Neurological Impairments
Physicians
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Questionnaires
Special schools
Surveys and Questionnaires
Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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