Guideline objectives: to provide information regarding current best practice for the prevention of constipation
through the use of nutrition for all ages and all types of EB; promote increased oral intake of fibre-containing foods and fluids; encourage regular pain free bowel movement; reduce risk of chronic constipation, faecal impaction, pain and rectal bleeding, anal stricture; be used as a tool for prevention and treatment of constipation when there is no access to a specialist dietitian; encourage collaboration from around the world by the inclusion and addition of high fibre food table.

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Target users: patients, parents and carers, dietitians and nutritionists, dermatologists, paediatricians, gastroenterologists, nurses, dentists, surgeons, psychologists, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, radiologists, and general practitioners.