Intestinal Disorders News

SAN DIEGO — Gastroenterologists must work to protect desperate patients who are susceptible to unproven treatments such as fecal microbiota transplantation, a speaker said here.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy and intensive medical care both reduced functional abdominal pain in children, according to recent study findings published in Pediatrics.

Children who are introduced to gluten after age 6 months and those who are breast-fed after age 12 months have an increased risk for celiac disease, according to recent study findings published in Pediatrics.

Researchers in Sweden report that autism spectrum disorders are not associated with celiac disease or inflammation. However, there was an association between the presence of normal mucosa but positive results on the celiac disease serologic test and the disorders.

Patients with small intestinal bacterial overgrowth are more likely to experience breath test normalization with antibiotic therapy rather than placebo, according to a recent study.

Patients with acute diverticulitis were more likely to develop irritable bowel syndrome, according to a recent retrospective study.

Since the introduction of the infant rotavirus vaccine in 2006, incidence of hospitalization due to gastroenteritis has decreased among adults and older children, according to recent results.

Pediatric patients with intestinal failure-associated liver disease may benefit from a regimen of intravenous fish oil, according to recent results.

An association with genome-wide significance between infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis and a novel locus suggests an inverse relationship between the condition and circulating cholesterol in neonates, according to a recent study.

Infants born via caesarean section had lower total intestinal microbiota diversity and delayed Bacteroidetes colonization compared with children delivered vaginally in a recent study.