Category Archives: Abdominal pain

Some 6-11% of recurrent abdominal pains in children are protozoan infections. Those cases “did not show a characteristic presentation when compared with patients with other causes of abdominal pain” – so you can’t tell by looking at them.

Helicobacter pylori driven irritation is a prime cause of peptic/duodenal ulcers. Now in “functional dyspepsia” , particularly with stomach pain, it’s eradication shows benefit.

Chinese article claims sacral nerve stimulation cured 19/32 and improved 12/32 cases.

Persistent esophageal symptoms (heartburn, chest pain, and regurgitation) despite ulcer meds –  could be the results of a spastic oversenstive esophagus that may respond to serotonergic agents – like antidepressant citalopram or Duoxetine

I have seen 2 cases of severe intermittent lower abdominal pain (both more left sided) with a background of lesser pains seen by various doctors with out relief and pain relieved in 1 minute – by pushing their inguinal hernia … Continue reading →

After remission of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, persistent symptoms often continue and are denigrated as Irritable Bowel Syndrome implying  that these cases have somehow now gone psychological. Now fecal calprotectin levels – reflecting pus inflammation in the bowel –  have been … Continue reading →

Answer appears to be yes according to one study

Using lactulose breath hydrogen test (LBT) to diagnose Small Intestinal Bacterial Ovewrgrowth (SIBO), 91% of children with chronic abdominal pain had evidence of bacterial overgrowth versus 35% of controls.

Even when adjustments made for age, alcohol consumption, prior acute pancreatitis and other factors, smoking comes out as doubling changes of chronic pancreatitis disease

Intermittent bowel obstruction during end of life is terrible with pain and vomiting. Regular self administered Octreotide injections given at first hint of trouble, controlled this problem.

Combination Desmopressin Nasal Spray (DDAVP nasal) and diclofenac Suppository brought prompt relief renal colic in 62.7% cases vs 30.7% in the group with suppository alone

Combination of Selenium 300 – 600 mcg, Vitamin C 540 – 600 mg, Beta Carotene 12 – 54 mg, Vitamin E 100 – 188 mg, and perhaps methionine 1.6 – 2 gm can lead to considerable reduction in chronic pancreatitis … Continue reading →

One out of eight people with abdominal pain are uncontrolled with medication. This can be debilitating and affect quality of life. 66 out of 70 people had substantial symptom relief with spinal cord stimulation.

Irregular hours are hard on people with IBS according to one nursing study

Chronic indigestion “dyspepsia” is a frequent medical problem and gets bad when ulcer pills fail to work. Now nighttime – bile reflux (regurgitation bile into stomach) may account for some. This is helped by agents that help bowel motility like … Continue reading →