What are the symptoms of gastrointestinal cramps in children?

Improved gastrointestinal function allows the body to fully absorb nutrients from various foods. Poor gastrointestinal function or gastrointestinal diseases will limit the absorption of nutrients and cause the body to deteriorate. Children in particular suffer from many gastrointestinal diseases due to various reasons. For example, stomach cramps are one of the common manifestations. Let’s take a look at the symptoms of gastrointestinal cramps in children. I hope everyone can understand.

(1) Children who are normally healthy: If they suddenly develop paroxysmal, intermittent abdominal pain and no abnormal physical signs are found during the intervals, this is the main feature of this disease. The abdominal pain in children can last for several minutes or even dozens of minutes, coming and going. After repeated attacks for tens of minutes or hours, the abdominal pain may no longer occur.

(2) Some children suffer from recurrent abdominal pain, which may last for several days. The severity of the pain varies. In severe cases, the child may roll over on the ground. In typical cases, the abdominal pain is often mainly located around the navel, that is, the spasm occurs in the small intestine. When spasm occurs in the proximal large intestine, the pain is in the right lower abdomen; when spasm occurs in the distal large intestine, pain occurs in the left lower abdomen; if the child has abdominal pain before defecation, it may be spasm of the descending colon or sigmoid colon.

(3) A small number of older children may experience colic in the ribs, usually on one side, due to spasm of the hepatic flexure or splenic flexure of the colon. Younger children may also experience colic in the abdominal area under the xiphoid process, due to spasm of the stomach. Strictly speaking, this is not intestinal spasm but gastric spasm. However, because the mechanism of their occurrence is similar, massage treatment for intestinal spasm is also effective.