
An expert underscores the importance of early expectation setting around chronicity, symptom variability, and realistic treatment goals for children with functional constipation or IBS-C.

Julie Khlevner, MD, AGAF, is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center and Chair, NASPGHAN Neurogastroenterology and Motility Committee.

An expert underscores the importance of early expectation setting around chronicity, symptom variability, and realistic treatment goals for children with functional constipation or IBS-C.

Learn how Rome V criteria, predominant symptom drivers, and a positive diagnostic framework help clinicians distinguish functional constipation from pediatric IBS-C and move away from a diagnosis-of-exclusion mindset.

Julie Khlevner, MD, discusses the clinical impact of FDA approval of linaclotide for children aged 2 to 5 years with functional constipation.

Julie Khlevner, MD, AGAF, highlights that FDA approval of linaclotide provides the first pharmacologic therapy for pediatric IBS-C.