Erschienen in:
30.01.2016 | Scientific Letter
A Child with Recurrent Abdominal Pain: A Cross-road between Pediatrics, Neurology and Psychiatry
verfasst von:
Nakka Nagarajitha, Monica Nakka, Sandeep Krishna Murthy Kosaraju, Tilak Chandra Pal Adusumalli
Erschienen in:
Indian Journal of Pediatrics
|
Ausgabe 6/2016
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Excerpt
To the Editor: Recurrent abdominal pain is a common problem among children. Many a times, in spite of a battery of diagnostic tests, the cause seems elusive. This can lead to these children being deemed to be suffering from ‘psychogenic pain’. Abdominal epilepsy is one such disease with a rare presentation which is easily treatable, but rarely recognizable. It is found that on an average this diagnosis does escape clinician’s attention [
1‐
3]. While suicide is one of the major causes of death in adolescence [
4,
5] recurrent idiopathic pain, in particular, primary headache and abdominal pain, is one of the leading somatic health issues among this age group. …