Gastrointestinal Conditions News

Although guidelines do not recommend probiotics for the prevention of Clostridioides difficile infection, or CDI, researchers continue to study them as a potential solution.

SAN DIEGO — Sacral nerve stimulation and antegrade continence enemas, when compared with each other, both offer positive experiences for children with severe constipation and each may best suit a different cohort of children, a presenter at Digestive Disease Week 2019 said.

Oral antibiotics did not affect the immunogenicity of the rotavirus vaccine in infants, according to findings published in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.

Findings from a prospective cohort study of healthy infants suggest with toxigenic Clostridiodes difficile, or TCD, immune response against the toxins “natural immunization.

Despite a slightly increased risk for intussusception shortly after rotavirus vaccination, infants who received either of the two available vaccines in the United States were not at increased risk for the condition after 2 years, according to a report published in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.

The number of outbreaks caused by Cryptosporidium, or Crypto, increased approximately 13% each year between 2009 and 2017, researchers said.

In this guest commentary from Feeding Matters, James A. Phalen, MD, Medical Director of Feeding Matters discusses a newly-published article that he co-authored on pediatric feeding disorder. Phalen serves as developmental pediatrician, University Health System, University Medicine Associates, San Antonio, Texas; Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics, University of Texas Health San Antonio, Texas; and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.

The FDA announced today that it permits marketing of the first medical device to help reduce functional abdominal pain for patients 11 to 18 years of age with irritable bowel syndrome when combined with other therapies for the syndrome.

Recent findings demonstrated that pediatric EDs in the United States use more imaging for conditions that do not routinely require them for diagnosis, including constipation and abdominal pain, compared with pediatric EDs in Ontario, Canada.

Bariatric surgical procedures are an underused, viable and cost-effective intervention for teenagers with persistent extreme obesity, according to a literature review published in The Journal of Pediatrics.