K59.0

Clinical Information

• A condition in which stool becomes hard, dry, and difficult to pass, and bowel movements don’t happen very often. Other symptoms may include painful bowel movements, and feeling bloated, uncomfortable, and sluggish.

• A disorder characterized by irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels.

• Condition in which bowel movements are infrequent or incomplete.

• Constipation means that a person has three or fewer bowel movements in a week. The stool can be hard and dry. Sometimes it is painful to pass. At one time or another, almost everyone gets constipated. In most cases, it lasts a short time and is not serious. There are many things you can do to prevent constipation. They include

• Constipation; irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels.

• Decrease in normal frequency of defecation accompanied by difficult or incomplete passage of stool and/or passage of excessively hard, dry stool

• Difficult passage of hard, dry, feces

• Infrequent or difficult evacuation of feces. These symptoms are associated with a variety of causes, including low dietary fiber intake, emotional or nervous disturbances, systemic and structural disorders, drug-induced aggravation, and infections.

• Irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels.

• Other forms of abnormal feces or difficult passage of feces.

Details

• K59.0 should not be used for reimbursement purposes as there are multiple codes below it that contain a greater level of detail.

• The 2023 edition of ICD-10-CM K59.0 became effective on October 1, 2022.

• This is the American ICD-10-CM version of K59.0 – other international versions of ICD-10 K59.0 may differ.