How to check stomach pain in children?

Many children often complain of stomachache when they are very young. Many parents just think that they have eaten something bad and don’t pay much attention to it, thinking that as long as they keep warm, it will be fine. In fact, this is a wrong idea. A child’s stomachache may be due to a problem with the stomach. It is best to take the child to the hospital for a check-up. So how do you check for stomachache? Let me tell you!

The following clinical symptoms require gastroscopy:

1. Repeated vomiting, belching, acid reflux, and abdominal distension related to diet;

2. Recurrent abdominal pain, with unclear location, which may be localized in the pit of the stomach or around the navel, and is intermittent and irregular, and may occur at night and in the early morning, but without a history of intestinal parasite infection;

3. Unexplained vomiting of blood or black stools, with multiple positive results in fecal occult blood tests;

4. There is a family history of gastric disease, the child has been ill for more than 3 months, accompanied by symptoms such as sallow complexion, weight loss, anemia and upper abdominal pain.

Gastroscopy reveals the "black hole" of children's gastric disease

Since gastroscopy started relatively late in pediatrics, previous methods such as barium meals and X-rays could not “catch all” pediatric digestive system diseases. The efficiency of gastroscopy in gastrointestinal examination can reach 99%. With the increasing popularity of gastroscopy in pediatric examinations, the "black hole" of children's stomach disease has gradually been exposed to the sun. These diseases include chronic gastritis, duodenal bulbitis, gastric and duodenal ulcers, etc., which have become common diseases in children. Parents should pay great attention to this.

Generally speaking, children are not aware of abdominal pain and cannot accurately describe the feeling, which means that many children's stomach problems cannot be discovered in time. In addition, the diversity of the disease's symptoms is also one of the factors that make parents easily misled. Qu Wenzhi introduced that the pain time of children with stomach problems is not fixed. Most of them experience pain after meals, while some experience pain before meals. After eating, the food neutralizes the stomach acid and the pain will be relieved. Compared with adult patients who may have a medical history of more than ten years, children's stomach pain often manifests as intermittent attacks, each lasting perhaps only a few minutes or more than ten minutes, and the pain disappears quickly.

After reading the above introduction, I believe you have already understood under what circumstances you should take your child to the hospital for a gastroscopy. It should be noted that gastroscopy is somewhat painful, and the child’s cooperation is very important, so it is best to do a good job of ideological work for the child in advance. In addition, you must pay attention to the child’s diet in normal times and help the child nourish the stomach.