Doctors at the Medical College in Mysur have proposed a multidisciplinary approach to dealing with complaints about “stomach pain” by children, although laboratory investigations have excluded physical illness of any kind.
Doctors who have been presented at the Psychiatry Conference for Child and Teens in NiMhans in Bengalur have found some psychological causes of some complaints about stomach pain with children.
Although the study was limited to four children complaining about stomach pain, although they showed no physical illness after laboratory investigation, such as diagnostic laparoscopy, endoscopy and CT abdominal scanning, pediatric surgeon Sudhamshu said some of the main reasons for children complaining. Depression that is on schools and visual disorders and visual hand.
Each 100 children referred to the Department of Pediatric Surgery in the Hospital, about 15 to 20% qualified for a multidisciplinary approach including doctors from psychiatry, pediatrics and pediatric surgery, said Dr. Sudhamshu, who was part of the study.
Doctors said that children complaining of stomach pain without any physical illness will indeed feel psychosomatic pain resulting from psychological problems. Such children even refuse to go to school, miss their studies together for a long time.
Although pediatric surgery was a recommendation department, professor of psychiatry, JSS Medical College, Mysur, M. Kishhor said that a large number of parents who were looking for surgical intervention for stomach pain directly.
Over the past year, there were about 12 to 14 children with stomach pain that qualified for such a multidisciplinary approach, actively involved in the Department of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, he said.
After close cooperation with disabled children and their parents, a team of doctors from various departments found that the causes between these children ranged from specific learning disabilities (dyslexia), depression, anxiety, mobile dependence, mental disability, problems with parents, including excessive parents, in addition to poor eating and sleep. Kishhor.
“Thanks to such an approach, we have been able to avoid a large number of unnecessary surgical interventions. Most children who were under the cooperating care of psychiatry and children’s ward are back at school,” he said.
Published – 14 July 2025 20:54 is
