Background. Functional gastrointestinal disorders are highly prevalent and standard treatments are often unsatisfactory. Mindfulness-based therapy has shown benefit in conditions including chronic pain, mood, and somatization disorders. Objectives. To assess the quality and effectiveness reported in existing literature, we conducted a meta-analysis of mindfulness-based therapy in functional gas...

Gastrointestinal disorders can be grouped as functional gastrointestinal (FGIDs) without an organic cause based on the systems and part of (GI) system affected. Probiotics are called "good" or "helpful" bacterias they help keep our gut healthy. probiotics have been extensively studied in detail infectious gastroenteritis, antibiotic-associated diarrhea etc., disorders. As fermented products, Ta...

Infant Distress andDevelopment of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders in Childhood: Is There a Connection? Oneinfant in4manifestswithabundantcrying, fussing,orcolic cry and is brought for medical evaluation during the first months of life.1 Concomitantly, excessive antigen uptake and bacterial translocationensueacross the immaturegutbarrier.2 Not surprisingly, infant cryinghasbeen related to ...

A variety of common and some not common gastrointestinal syndromes are thought to be based on impaired gut motility. For some, the role of motility is well defined, for others and the functional gastrointestinal disorders, in particular, the role of hy-po- or dysmotility remains unclear. Over the years pharmacological and physiological laboratories have developed drugs which stimulate gut motil...

INTRODUCTION A signifi cant fraction of the average gastroenterology practice is devoted to the management of functional gastrointestinal disorders, of which the most frequent are irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and functional dyspepsia. Th ese patients are highly heterogenous, and the lack of a known etiology and wide variability in treatment response makes them particularly challenging to mana...

The present research examined the perceptual style and coping pattern characterizing individuals with functional gastrointestinal disorders. A matched case-control design was adopted to compare differences among the target group of individuals with functional gastrointestinal disorders (n = 40), a pain control group of individuals with rheumatism (n = 40), and the community control group of hea...

Nausea is common amongst children with functional gastrointestinal disorders and is associated with a high burden of somatic and psychosocial comorbidities in both the short and long-term. Current treatments including medications, phytotherapy, stress-reduction techniques, and gastric electrical stimulation for recalcitrant cases, are reviewed. Functional nausea merits its own diagnostic criter...