Prevalence and possible causes of crying and mild gastrointestinal and skin symptoms in infants reported by healthcare professionals - worldwide data
HCPs reported that more than half of the infants experience at least one symptom in the first year of life. The ongoing development of the infant's GI tract and infant's nutrition were reported to be the main causes of study-defined symptoms. To manage infants' GI symptoms, HCPs recommend a change in feeding regimen or infants' nutrition along with parental education. What is known? • Infants experience unexplained crying and gastrointestinal (GI) and skin symptoms in the first year of life. • The infant's gastrointestinal tract needs time to develop. What is new? • Health care professionals' (HCPs) consensus on the definitions of mild crying and GI and skin symptoms. • The reported prevalence of those symptoms is 60%, which is approximately twice as high as the prevalence of functional gastrointestinal diseases (FGIDs). - To manage those symptoms, HCPs give parental advice or education, or they recommend a change in feeding regimen or type of infants' nutrition.
Authors
- Carina Venter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7473-5355)
- Mizu Jiang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4829-2041)
- Н.А. Геппе (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0547-3686)
- И. Н. Захарова (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4200-4598)
- Hania Szajewska (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4596-2874)
- Shannon Seckel
- J. Visser
- Christophe Dupont (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4943-6329)
- Fawaz AlRefaee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7980-1518)
- Lucie van der Zee
- D. Goossens (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2080-7464)
- Jinjin Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0647-9687)
- V. Bunt
Institutions
- Texas Tech University (US)
- Sechenov University (RU)
- Medical University of Warsaw (PL)
- Adan Hospital (KW)
- Children's Hospital Colorado (US)
- Russian Children's Clinical Hospital (RU)
- Children's Hospital of Zhejiang University (CN)
- Innofeet (NL)
- Institut Marcel Mauss (FR)
- Shanghai Children's Hospital (CN)
- University of Colorado Denver (US)
- Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- European Journal of Pediatrics
- Published
- 2025-05-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-025-06174-w
- Primary Topic
- Infant Health and Development
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00