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colicSpasmodic attack of pain in the abdomen, usually coming in waves. Colicky pains are caused by the painful muscular contraction and subsequent distension of a hollow organ; for example, the bowels, gall bladder (biliary colic), or ureter (renal colic). Intestinal colic is due to partial or complete blockage of the intestine, or constipation; infantile colic is usually due to wind in the intestine. |
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Evans R, Fergusson D, Allardyce R, Taylor B, Maternal diet and infantile colic in breast-fed infants. A minority of patients with infantile colic (inconsolable, agonized crying, drawing up of the legs, abdominal distention, and excessive gas associated with feeding during the first several months of life) have symptoms attributed to IgE-mediated food hypersensitivity (Sampson 1989). Infantile colic is estimated to affect 10 to 20 percent of all infants. |
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