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Review
. 2016 Mar 10;3(1):5.
doi: 10.3390/children3010005.

Functional Nausea in Children: A Review of the Literature and Need for Diagnostic Criteria

Alexandra C Russell  1 , Amanda L Stone  2 , Lynn S Walker  3
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Functional Nausea in Children: A Review of the Literature and Need for Diagnostic Criteria

Alexandra C Russell et al. Children (Basel). .

Abstract

Nausea is common amongst children with functional gastrointestinal disorders and is associated with a high burden of somatic and psychosocial comorbidities in both the short and long-term. Current treatments including medications, phytotherapy, stress-reduction techniques, and gastric electrical stimulation for recalcitrant cases, are reviewed. Functional nausea merits its own diagnostic criteria as a pediatric functional gastrointestinal disorder.

Keywords: autonomic dysfunction; chronic idiopathic nausea; functional gastrointestinal disorders; functional nausea; integrative medicine.

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