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Advancing Nutritional Science for Children With Functional Dyspepsia (External Link)
Food can often exacerbate gastrointestinal symptoms in adults and children with functional dyspepsia. However, it is unclear which foods exacerbate symptoms more than others. Children with post-prandial distress functional dyspepsia …
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Peppermint Oil Pharmacokinetics/Dynamics and Novel Biological Signatures in Children With Functional Abdominal Pain (External Link)
Children with functional abdominal pain (FAP) ages 7-12 years (n=30) will be recruited. The study participants will be admitted to the Children's Nutrition Research Center. A medical history and a …
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Efficacy of Audio Recorded Guided Imagery vs Deep Breathing Exercises on Functional Gastrointestinal Pain Disorders (External Link)
Children managed in primary care with a functional gastrointestinal pain disorder will be recruited and studied for this trial. After participants are deemed eligible, they will complete multiple questionnaires and …
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Detection of Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency in Patients With Diarrhea and Bloating (External Link)
Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI) diagnosis can be challenging due to several reasons. First, the main symptoms of EPI such as diarrhea, loose stool, bloating or weight loss have low specificity …
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Use of Baxter Animated Retching Faces (BARF) Scale to Measure Nausea in Children Who Speak Spanish (External Link)
By default the most common objective outcome measure used in pediatric studies has been the incidence and number of emetic episodes. This measure, however, correlates poorly with the somatic subjective …
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Clinical Use of Baxter Animated Retching Faces (BARF) Scale in Children (External Link)
Pediatric research in the management of nausea has been limited by the absence of a reliable method to quantify the intensity of this subjective symptom. In adults, the visual analog …
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Digestion of Foods Consumed in Africa (External Link)
As suggested by anecdotal evidence that traditional Malian sorghum and millet foods are filling and provide sustained energy, we hypothesized that gastric emptying rates of sorghum and millet foods are …
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Delivered Dietary Intervention for Children With Irritable Bowel Syndrome (External Link)
Many children experience stomach pain or discomfort at some point during their lives. Some children have belly discomfort frequently while others rarely have this problem. There have been very few …
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Amitiza in Constipation Associated With PD (Parkinson's Disease) (External Link)
Parkinson's disease (PD) affects about one million people in the United States. It is a common neurological condition that is clinically defined by rigidity (muscle stiffness), bradykinesia (slowness of movement) …
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Recurrent Abdominal Pain in Children (External Link)
Children with recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) who meet the criteria for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) will be recruited and studied. They will have been diagnosed by a pediatric gastroenterologist and …
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