This PedsCases note provides a one-page overview of disorder of gut-brain interaction, including its typical features, diagnosis, pathophysiology and management. It was created by Anisa Khalfan, a medical student at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine with the help of Dr. Nikhil Pai, staff physician in the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine. 

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References

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2. Chacko, M., & Chiou, E. (2023, March 30). Functional abdominal pain in children and adolescents: Management in primary care. UpToDate.

3. Marcdante, K. J., Kliegman , R. M., & Schuh , A. M. (2022). Digestive system assessment . In Nelson Essentials of Pediatrics (9th ed.). essay, Elsevier.

4. Thapar, Nikhil, Marc A. Benninga, Michael D. Crowell, Carlo Di Lorenzo, Isabelle Mack, Samuel Nurko, Miguel Saps et al. "Paediatric functional abdominal pain disorders." Nature reviews Disease primers 6, no. 1 (2020): 89.