Although Hirschsprung disease is present at birth, symptoms are not always evident right away. In most cases, children show symptoms and receive a diagnosis in the first year of life. But, in about 10 percent of cases, children are not diagnosed until after their first year. About one percent of people do not show symptoms — and therefore aren't diagnosed — until they are in their teens.

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