A bdominal pain is very common among children and adolescents. It can be challenging for parents to figure out what is causing the pain and whether it is serious. When a parent takes the child to the pediatrician to evaluate the abdominal pain, the doctor will ask questions about the pain and do a physical examination. Sometimes other tests such as blood tests, urine tests, or radiology tests a...

Legalization of marijuana use will increase the number of people who will become long-term users. A prior medical record review study in Australia, in 2004, identified 19 chronic marijuana users who entered the emergency department with recurrent vomiting associated with abdominal pain. Routine treatment of the nausea and vomiting, associated with the chronic marijuana abuse, with antiemetics i...

BACKGROUND Major abdominal operations result in random and unpredictable scar tissue formation. Intraabdominal scar tissue may contribute to recurrent episodes of bowel obstruction, chronic abdominal pain, or both. Laparoscopic adhesiolysis may provide relief of symptoms in patients with prior abdominal surgery with chronic abdominal pain or recurrent bowel obstruction. METHODS Between Septem...

This study is a preliminary investigation of the efficacy of a brief intervention for recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) via a multiple baseline across subjects design. The intervention consisted of a single 1-hour session including psychoeducation and coaching of breathing retraining; the length, duration, and content of the intervention were designed with a goal of maximum portability to primary-...

Recurrent episodes of abdominal pain are common in childhood. Among the diagnostic possibilities are migraine and abdominal epilepsy (AE). AE is an infrequent syndrome with paroxystic episodes of abdominal pain, awareness disturbance, EEG abnormalities and positive results with the introduction of antiepileptic drugs. We present one 6 year-old girl who had short episodes of abdominal pain since...

Currently the majority of malaria cases in Europe are imported by international travellers and immigrants. Typical clinical signs recurrent fever, hepatosplenomegaly haemolytic anaemia. Abdominal pain is not a specific sign malaria. We present case three-day 17-year-old Indian citizen who was admitted to Ternopil Regional Children’s Hospital with fever severe abdominal pain. The peculiarity thi...