PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - L K Brown
AU  - R M Beattie
AU  - M P Tighe
TI  - Practical management of functional abdominal pain in children
AID  - 10.1136/archdischild-2014-306426
DP  - 2016 Jul 01
TA  - Archives of Disease in Childhood
PG  - 677--683
VI  - 101
IP  - 7
4099  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/101/7/677.short
4100  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/101/7/677.full
SO  - Arch Dis Child2016 Jul 01; 101
AB  - Functional abdominal pain (FAP) is common in childhood, but is not often caused by disease. It is often the impact of the pain rather than the pain itself that results in referral to the clinician. In this review, we will summarise the currently available evidence and discuss the functional dimensions of the presentation, within the framework of commonly expressed parental questions. Using the Rome III criteria, we discuss how to classify the functional symptoms, investigate appropriately, provide reassurance regarding parental worries of chronic disease. We outline how to explain the functional symptoms to parents and an individualised strategy to help restore function.