Nonorganic (Functional) Abdominal Pain in Children | ||
| Medical Journal of Babylon | ||
| Article 1, Volume 9, Issue 3, September 2012, Pages 623-628 | ||
| Author | ||
| Qahtan Kayoon Hmood Alyaseri | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Abstract Background: Nonorganic(functional)abdominal pain in children is common and similar in its presentation to many organic causes to the recurrent abdominal pain in children. Patients and methods; These study was done on 100 children suffering from nonorganic (functional) abdominal pain in Al-Diwaniah province (in Iraq) and during one year (2010).Most of the patients have a strong family history of migraine, irritable bowel syndrome or both. Stress factors play an important role in provoking the symptoms in the patients, and removal of the stress factor is the main step in the treatment of this disease and leading to dramatic improvement of the pain. The stress factors were discovered easily by a short interview with child and his or her mother . Results;Most of these stress factors were either from the brother or sister of the patient that were annoying the patients or from one of his or her colleagues in the school or from fear at night. | ||
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