OBJECTIVE To elucidate parent´s experience of having had a baby with colic four years previously and of how the colic and care influenced the family in a long-term perspective. METHODOLOGY AND PARTICIPANTS A qualitative inductive follow-up study with 13 individual and one focus group interview including four parents. Altogether ten mothers and seven fathers representing 12 families, who had b...

Infantile colic is a common condition affecting 10% to 30% of infants in the first 3 months of life. Infantile colic can be quite distressing to the parents. The condition cannot be clearly defined because of its variability. Nevertheless, the definition given by Wessel (1954) is still widely accepted. It is based on the rule of three: crying for more than three hours per day, for more than thr...

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Infantile colic is common, but no safe and effective conventional treatment exists. The use of acupuncture has increased despite weak evidence. This practitioner survey explores and discusses how infantile colic is regarded and treated in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The study is based on personal communication with 24 acupuncturists from nine countries. These acupuncturists specialize i...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to review published evidence and the opinion of practising clinicians on the prevalence and long-term health consequences of functional gastrointestinal symptoms in infants younger than 12 months. METHODS PubMed was searched from inception to November 2014 to find articles reporting the prevalence and long-term health outcomes of infantile colic, regurgitat...

The goal of this case-control examination, conducted in France and Italy, was to determine whether an association exists between infantile colic and migraine headaches. Consecutive children aged 6 to 18 years, who presented to 1 of 3 emergency departments and were diagnosed with migraine or tension-type (according to criteria of the International Headache Classifi cation, 2nd edition) primary h...

PURPOSE To perform a systematic review of the literature on the chiropractic care of patients with infantile colic. METHODS The following databases were interrogated: MANTIS [1965-2010]; Pubmed [1966-2010]; Index to Chiropractic Literature [1984-2010]; EMBASE [1974-2010]; AMED [1967-2010]; CINAHL [1964-2010]; Alt-Health Watch [1965-2010], and PsychINFO [1965-2010]. Inclusion criteria were man...