Colic

Colic
Related Category: Pathology
intense pain caused by spasmodic contractions of one of the hollow organs, e.g., the stomach, intestine, gall bladder, ureter, or oviduct.
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Colic, which is not a disease, affects 10-20% of all infants. It is more common in boys than in girls and most common in a family's first child.
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Colic is a problem that affects some babies during the first three to four months of life. It can be very stressful and frustrating to parents. Physicians have defined colic as prolonged or excessive crying in an infant who is otherwise well.
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Colic and Crying
Definition:
Almost all babies go through a fussy period. When crying lasts for longer than about three hours a day and is not caused by a medical problem (such as a hernia or infection), it is called colic.
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Colic isn't a disease, but a pattern of excessive crying with no apparent cause. This frustrating and largely unexplained condition affects about one in 10 infants.
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What is Colic?
This is commonly seen in children between the ages of 2 and 6 months. During an attack the baby screams and is often inconsolable, drawing its knees up over its stomach as though it had stomach ache.
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What causes colic?
You feed her when she's hungry, change her when she's wet, and hold her as often as you can. So why does she keep crying? The short answer: Nobody knows.
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Colic
About one out of every five newborn babies suffer the frequent, prolonged crying bouts known as colic. Spells of colicky crying can occur at any time of day, but they are most common in the late afternoon and evening.
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Colic usually strikes toward the end of a long day, when your baby is just about at the age when your sleep deprivation has really begun to set in. Your baby stops being the quiet, peaceful, miracle baby and begins screaming every evening.
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COLIC IN INFANTS (Infant Colic)
SYMPTOMS"Stomach or intestinal pain in an infant. There is abdominal pain, distension, insomnia, extreme fretfulness, or hysteria. The child cries out, pulls the knees up to the stomach, and has a distended stomach.
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Colic in young babies can cause much domestic stress for parents. This article gives helpful advice for managing the problem.
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9. COLIC
Feel like you could set your watch by your child's fussy period? From 5 to 9p.m. every night, he wails, and no amount of care can calm him down. You've drawn a colicky baby.
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Biliary colic is the medical term for the extreme cramping pain caused by gallstones. The formation of gallstones in the gallbladder is called cholelithiasis.
How does it occur?
You are more likely to have gallstones if: ...
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Pain (biliary colic) caused by gallstones blocking the cystic duct, which drains the gallbladder.
Inflammation of the gallbladder (acute cholecystitis).
Gallstones that block the common bile duct (choledocholithiasis).
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If you have biliary colic, the pain or discomfort may go away or become less severe after one to five hours if a trapped gallstone passes out of the cystic duct on its own. Your abdomen may continue to ache mildly for about 24 hours.
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Colic in Infants
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Inconsolable crying is often put down to colic but no-one yet knows what colic is and there's no definite test for it. It tends to affect babies for the first three to four months of life.
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May avoid allergic symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, rash, sleeplessness, or colic due to cow's milk protein intolerance. 3. Provides results within 48 hours if colic is due to cow's milk protein allergy 4.
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In the absence of obvious metastatic disease, accurate staging of germ cell tumors of the ovary requires laparotomy with careful examination of the entire diaphragm, both paracolic gutters, pelvic nodes on the side of the ovarian tumor, ...
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Colic, excessive spitting-up, feeding-related irritability, rectal bleeding, diarrhea, constipation and gas are all symptoms that may be associated with protein allergy.
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The pain with kidney stones is usually of sudden onset, very severe and colicky (intermittent), not improved by changes in position, radiating from the back, down the flank, and into the groin. Nausea and vomiting are common.
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Typically, the first symptom is crampy or "colicky" pain around the navel (periumbilical). There is usually a marked reduction in or total absence of appetite, often associated with nausea, and occasionally, vomiting and low grade fever.
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on one or both sides
progressive
severe
colicky (spasm-like)
may radiate or move to lower in flank, pelvis, groin, genitals ...
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Diabetic ketoacidosis
Lung abscess
Ozena, or atrophic rhinitis
Periodontal disease
Pharyngitis
Zenker's diverticulum ...
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