Abdominal Pain Care in Children

  • Take your child to the emergency department if there are the following symptoms:
    1. Sudden onset of severe unrelenting abdominal pain
    2. Your baby cries upon being touched on his/her abdomen
    3. There is a mass in your child’s inguinal area
    4. Persistent abdominal pain with an evidently worse pain over his/her right lower abdominal area
    5. Severe pain with nausea or vomiting
    6. A stiff tense abdomen
    7. Bloody diarrhea with nausea and vomiting
  • Take medication as instructed.
  • Eating small meals. Do not eat strong flavored or stimulating foods such as spicy, sour, or deep-fried foods.
  • When there is severe nausea/vomiting or abdominal pain, temporarily hold off any eating or drinking until the symptoms have improved.

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