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Jul 2022
19m 18s

Paediatric gastrointestinal issues

RCGP eLearning Podcast
About this episode
In this podcast, Dr Emma Nash talks with consultant paediatric gastroenterologist Peter Gillett to examine common presentations in general practice and paediatric outpatient departments that can be attributed to functional GI disorders. Recognition and diagnosis are considered, along with management, and the important conditions to exclude are touched upon.

Here is a list of resources relating to the content of this podcast:
Refractory Constipation: What is the Clinician to Do?
Gut-focused hypnotherapy for children and adolescents with irritable bowel syndrome
Dietary and pharmacological treatment of abdominal pain in IBS
Guidelines on management of cyclic vomiting syndrome in adults by the American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society and the Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome Association
Managing cyclic vomiting syndrome in children: beyond the guidelines
Paediatric functional abdominal pain disorders
Fifteen-minute consultation: Childhood rumination syndrome
Functional abdominal pain in adolescents: case-based management
Practical management of functional abdominal pain in children
Chronic nausea and vomiting: evaluation and treatment
Fifteen-minute consultation on the healthy child: Bowel habit in infants and children

Financial support for the project was provided as a sponsorship from Thermo Fisher Scientific. Editorial and content decisions were made solely by the RCGP.
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