Abdominal Pain

The abdominal area (the area between your chest and groin) is often referred to as the stomach region or belly. However, even when you feel pain in your abdomen it might have originated elswhere, eg. chest or pelvic region, or from a generalized infection such as the 'flu affecting many parts of your body.

Follow the links below to find information about abdominal pain. To find specific information about colic or appendicitis follow the links below to those HealthInsite topic pages.

Reviewed September 2008

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Related HealthInsite Topics
Appendicitis
HealthInsite Topic Page
Links to information about appendicitis and appendectomy.
Colic
HealthInsite Topic Page
Links to information about colic.
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Title:   Lactose intolerance in babies
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Lactase is an enzyme, or chemical, which the body uses to digest milk sugar (lactose). If there is not enough lactase, undigested milk sugar may cause gut pains and diarrhoea. This is called lactose intolerance.
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   Abdominal pain
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Children often complain of pain in the tummy (abdomen). It can be a sign of illness, but often a child will have pain but not be unwell. Research has shown that up to 10% of children have abdominal pain which comes and goes. An illness causes the pain in only about 5% of these children.
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Abdominal pain
Publisher:   Virtual Medical Centre.com
Description:   Abdominal pain is a very common medical condition that can either be acute or chronic in nature. Basically it refers to pain that is felt within the abdomen which is the region of the body bounded by the ribs superiorly and the pelvis below.
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Psychosocial interventions for recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in childhood
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Each of the included studies reported a statistically significant benefit to participants in the intervention group. CBT may therefore be worth considering for some children with recurrent abdominal pain, but this review points to the need for further, ...
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   Pharmacological interventions for recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in childhood
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Recently it has been suggested that children previously described as having RAP should be classified according to the pattern of symptoms into a series of sub-groups (the Rome II criteria) including irritable bowel syndrome, functional dyspepsia, functi...
Title:   Dietary interventions for recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in childhood
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   This review attempted to determine the effectiveness of dietary interventions. When the original version was published, only four trials fit the inclusion criteria for the review, two of which looked at fibre supplements and two of which looked at lacto...
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   Abdominal pain in adults
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Abdominal pain is pain felt anywhere from below your ribs to your pelvis. Serious causes include appendicitis and pregnancy problems. However, most abdominal pain is harmless and goes away without special treatment.
Date:   Oct 2007
Title:   Analgesia in patients with acute abdominal pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The use of opioid analgesics in patients with acute abdominal pain is helpful in terms of patient comfort and does not mask clinical findings or delay diagnosis. Some surgeons are reluctant in using analgesia in the clinical evaluation of patients with ...
Date:   May 2007
Title:   Bulking agents, antispasmodic and antidepressant medication for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The results of this review suggest that antispasmodic agents may be effective for treatment of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Antispasmodic drugs may improve abdominal pain and patients' overall assessment of their IBS symptoms. This review found no ev...
Date:   Feb 2005
Title:   Reflux
Publisher:   Sydney Children's Hospital,The Children's Hospital at Westmead
Description:   Reflux happens when the muscle in the lower part of the oesophagus relaxes when it should not. Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment or reflux are explained.
Date:   Aug 2000
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