(1) Department of Child Health, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA Chapter Outline Definitions: Failure to Thrive/failure to grow Philosophic considerations: “organic vs. psychogenic”—The biomedical dichotomy Misconceptions about Failure…
(1) Department of Child Health, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA Chapter Outline Introduction Physiologic Anatomy Sensory Motor Visceral Somatic Internal anal sphincter External anal sphincter Reflexology Gastro-colic reflex…
(1) Department of Child Health, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA Chapter Outline A. Some essential concepts 1. Caring and rapport 2. The concept of functionality 3….
(1) Department of Child Health, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA Chapter Outline Description Management Chronic, nonspecific diarrhea (CND) presents in infants and preschool children as intermittent or persistent…
(1) Department of Child Health, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA Pain in children, especially chronic pain, challenges the diagnostic acum, therapeutic skill, and personal mettle of the physician…….
(1) Department of Child Health, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA Chapter Outline Introduction In Infants: “Innocent vomiting” (a.k.a.” functional GER”) “Nervous Vomiting” Infant Rumination Syndrome Rumination in the…
(1) Department of Child Health, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA Chapter Outline Definition Epidemiology Differential diagnosis The pain hypothesis. The neurodevelopmental hypothesis The subsidence of colic Management of…
