Food habits, stressors, and use of complementary medicine therapies among pediatric patients who attend an integrative medicine pediatric pain clinic

This 2019 study examined healthy children and patients with functional chronic abdominal pain on their body’s ability to absorb fructose. The purpose of the study was to compare the prevalence rate of fructose malabsorption between asymptomatic children and those with pain-predominant functional gastrointestinal disorders. Hydrogen and methane levels were measured using breath tests. Concentrations over […]

In this 2019 study, a variety of tests were performed on children with celiac disease, an autoimmune disease requiring life-long adoption of the gluten-free diet. Since people with celiac disease must follow a gluten-free diet, they are thought to have poor-quality diets. These researchers hypothesized that children with celiac disease would mostly eat high saturated […]