In this podcast, Dr Emma Nash talks with consultant paediatric gastroenterologist Peter Gillett to examine common presentations in general practice and paediatric outpatient departments that can be attributed to functional GI disorders. Recognition and diagnosis are considered, along with management, and the important conditions to exclude are touched upon.



Here is a list of resources relating to the content of this podcast:

Refractory Constipation: What is the Clinician to Do?

Gut-focused hypnotherapy for children and adolescents with irritable bowel syndrome

Dietary and pharmacological treatment of abdominal pain in IBS

Guidelines on management of cyclic vomiting syndrome in adults by the American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society and the Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome Association

Managing cyclic vomiting syndrome in children: beyond the guidelines

Paediatric functional abdominal pain disorders

Fifteen-minute consultation: Childhood rumination syndrome

Functional abdominal pain in adolescents: case-based management

Practical management of functional abdominal pain in children

Chronic nausea and vomiting: evaluation and treatment

Fifteen-minute consultation on the healthy child: Bowel habit in infants and children



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Reviewed: May 2025