Gastrointestinal Conditions News

Recurrent abdominal pain, or RAP, encompasses a group of functional gastrointestinal disorders commonly experienced by children. Currently, no consensus exists about what the gold standard treatment is for these conditions.

The number of new cases of type 1 diabetes among young Australian children declined after oral rotavirus vaccination was added to the routine immunization schedule for children aged 6 weeks and older, according to research published in JAMA Pediatrics.

An 8-week diet low in free sugar content significantly improved hepatic steatosis among adolescent boys with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease compared with their usual diet, according to a study published in JAMA.

In recent years, much emphasis has been placed on the cautious and appropriate use of antibiotics as a means of mitigating the threat of antimicrobial resistance. Yet antibiotic overprescribing remains a concern, particularly in outpatient settings such the physician’s office, urgent care centers, clinics and EDs.

Children with oropharyngeal dysphagia who used PPIs to alleviate aspiration were at increased risk for hospitalization, according to findings recently published in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head Neck Surgery.

U.S. counties with high opioid prescription rates had 1.5 times as many babies born with gastroschisis, a serious birth defect of the abdominal wall, compared with counties with low opioid prescription rates, according to research published in MMWR.

One-quarter of children with celiac disease were lost to follow-up within a year of diagnosis and some failed to even see a gastroenterologist after their diagnostic biopsy, according to research published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

NEW YORK — According to a presentation at the annual Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium, 61% of all children in the United States attend some type of out-of-home child care. Exclusions from school or child care are often unnecessary — especially for diarrheal illness — and they add to the burden of lost work time, the presenter said.

Results from a retrospective review of patients infected with hepatitis C in childhood revealed that those with perinatal infection developed cirrhosis earlier than other risk groups, according to a recently published study.

Probiotics did not provide beneficial effects in children with gastroenteritis in EDs in the United States and Canada, according to a pair of studies recently published in The New England Journal of Medicine.