R15

Clinical Information

• A disorder characterized by inability to control the escape of stool from the rectum.

• Bowel incontinence is the inability to control your bowels. When you feel the urge to have a bowel movement, you may not be able to hold it until you get to a toilet. More than 5.5 million americans have bowel incontinence. It affects people of all ages – children and adults. It is more common in women and older adults, but it is not a normal part of aging.causes include

• Change in normal bowel habits characterized by involuntary passage of stool

• Failure of control of the anal sphincters, with involuntary passage of feces and flatus; it may be either psychogenic or organic in origin.

• Failure of voluntary control of the anal sphincters, with involuntary passage of feces and flatus.

• Inability to control the escape of stool from the rectum.

• Inability to hold stool in the rectum.

• Involuntary defecation

• Involuntary defecation.

Details

• Functional encopresis

• Incontinence of feces of nonorganic origin

• Psychogenic encopresis

• R15.0

  Incomplete defecation

• R15.1

  Fecal smearing

• R15.2

  Fecal urgency

• R15.9

  Full incontinence of feces