Abstract

NERI, Sandra et al. FUNCTIONAL GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS IN INFANTS. PREVALENCE IN A GASTROENTEROLOGY OUT CLINIC PATIENTS . Gen [online]. 2015, vol.69, n.4, pp.133-136. ISSN 2477-975X.

Introduction: functional gastrointestinal disorders are a set of chronic or recurrent symptoms without structural, biochemi- cal or metabolic cause explicable. They are a matter of consultation with a variable or unknown frequency. Objective: To determine the prevalence of functional gastrointestinal disorders in infants in a gastroenterological consultation. Patients and methods: a prospective crosssectional study between January 2012 and March 2013. The presence of symptoms related to regurgitation, colic and infant dyschezia using the Rome III criteria through a questionnaire to mothers of was recorded, infants evaluated. We excluded children with as- sociated pathologies. Results: 1,197 infants, 104 investiga- ted with functional gastrointestinal disorders, a prevalence of 8.68% and identification of 1 in 10 infants (OR = 10.15). Average age: 4.4 months (range: 1-19), similar in terms of sex affectation, males 55 (52.88%) and 49 females (47.12%). Infant regurgitation was the most common disorder in children 95/104 (91.34%), dyschezia 31/104 (29.80%) and colic 9/104 (8.65%). The presence of more than one disorder was found in 30 children, regurgitation and dyschezia present in 21, regurgitation and colic in 5 dyschezia and colic in 3. One patient had all disorders. Conclusions: Functional gastrointestinal disorders are prevalent in infant gastroenterological consultation, its determination is useful in planning health care for diagnosis and monitoring.

Keywords : functional gastrointestinal disorders; dyschezia; infant regurgitation; colic; prevalence.

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