Many parents, caregivers and health professionals are faced with caring for an unhappy infant displaying symptoms associated with colic. Food allergies, gastrointestinal and behavioural factors have been suggested as possible causes. Infantile colic usually affects infants in the first few weeks of life and resolves itself before six months of age. It has been estimated that colic is prevalent ...

Background There is no known cause of colic and it has been suggested by some that colic does not exist. Whether this is true or not, many parents, caregivers and health professionals are faced with caring for an unhappy infant displaying symptoms associated with colic. Infantile colic usually affects infants in the first few weeks of life and resolves itself before six months of age. The preva...

Infantile colic is a commonly encountered, benign self-limited condition which causes much distress to the caregivers. The etio-pathogenesis is inconclusive and myriad theories abound. Gut hormones, gut probiota, lactose malabsorption, food hypersensitivity and psychosocial factors have been implicated. The diagnosis is mainly clinical and treatment includes antispasmodics, probiotics, food mod...

p0330 The constantly irritable infant is often referred to by primary health care providers in a somewhat offhanded way as being colicky, as if that somehow represents the final word on the subject. ‘Infantile colic’ is a term which is used by various health care professions to describe the persistent, often violent crying which sometimes characterizes an otherwise healthy and thriving baby. As...

The establishment of the gut microbiota immediately after birth is a dynamic process that may impact lifelong health. At this important developmental stage in early life, human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) serve as specific substrates to shape nursling. well-orchestrated transition an aberrant microbial composition and bacterial-derived metabolites are associated with colicky symptoms atopic di...

BACKGROUND Evidence for treating infantile colic with acupuncture is contradictory. AIM To evaluate and compare the effect of two types of acupuncture versus no acupuncture in infants with colic in public child health centres (CHCs). METHODS A multicentre, randomised controlled, single-blind, three-armed trial (ACU-COL) comparing two styles of acupuncture with no acupuncture, as an adjunct ...

AIMS To investigate the effect of caesarean section on gastrointestinal symptoms, atopic dermatitis, and sensitisation to nutritional allergens in infants. METHODS A total of 865 healthy full term neonates with parental history of allergy participating in the prospective German Infant Nutritional Intervention Program (GINI) were exclusively breast fed during the first four months of life and ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether Helicobacter pylori is associated with infantile colic. DESIGN Case-control study. SETTINGS Local tertiary hospital in rural Gizan, Saudi Arabia. PARTICIPANTS A total of 55 patients with infantile colic who were 2 weeks to 4 months of age and who fulfilled modified Wessel criteria (ie, crying and fussy behavior) and a total of 30 healthy controls with no his...

Intussusception is a common cause of intestinal obstruction and colicky abdominal pain in the children, particularly infants, the commonest being the ileocolic variety with colocolic variety being a very rare entity. We present a case of colocolic intussusception in a 13-year-old boy which is otherwise seen in adults, precipitated by colonic malignancies. The patient presented with acute abdomi...