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Re: Prune juice for constipation

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In a message dated 97-10-23 15:20:23 EDT,  writes:

> If there are <underline>no</underline> other symptoms except infrequent
>  (but normal stools) in a situation like this, how long will the providers
>  out there wait before before becoming concerned?
>
For normal, breast-fed infants, I tell parents I don't want to hear about it
before a week.  After that I might get concerned--breast fed babies can have
Hirschprungs disease, too.  It happened to a friend of mine while I was in
med school.  The baby was a year old before he was diagnosed--and he'd been
seen regularly at the University medical center, by good pediatricians.

Moshe Adler, MD