Functional Nausea in Children: A Review of the Literature and Need for Diagnostic Criteria

Abstract

Nausea is common amongst children with functional gastrointestinal disorders and is associated with a high burden of somatic and psychosocial comorbidities in both the short and long-term. Current treatments including medications, phytotherapy, stress-reduction techniques, and gastric electrical stimulation for recalcitrant cases, are reviewed. Functional nausea merits its own diagnostic criteria as a pediatric functional gastrointestinal disorder.

Keywords

• functional nausea
• functional gastrointestinal disorders
• chronic idiopathic nausea
• autonomic dysfunction
• integrative medicine