Acute gastroenteritis (AGE) is common in the United States, with an average of about one case per person each year, a new epidemiologic study suggests. The study also estimates that nearly 1 in 10 ...

Worldwide, acute gastroenteritis causes the second greatest burden of all infectious diseases — and norovirus is the cause for many of those cases, according to research published in The Lancet ...

In a recent study published in the journal Neurogastroenterology, researchers examine the prevalence of post-infectious irritable bowel syndrome (PI-IBS) and post-infectious function dyspepsia (PI-FD) ...

Rotavirus may not be on the hot list of viruses dominating headlines, but globally, it still tops the charts as the leading cause of severe, dehydrating diarrhea in children younger than 5 years, ...

Benign convulsions associated with mild gastroenteritis constitute a distinct clinical syndrome primarily affecting infants and young children. Typically emerging during a transient episode of ...

The collected evidence in two current systematic reviews suggest that ondansetron may induce vomiting in AGE. [22,23] DeCamp et al. found that ondansetron effectively reduced further emesis, the need ...

Ondansetron improves outcomes when administered in emergency departments to children with acute gastroenteritis–associated vomiting. It is commonly prescribed at discharge to reduce symptoms, but ...

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)--- characterized by abdominal pain, bloating, and altered bowel habit - may last 4 or more years following a bout of gastroenteritis in around half of those affected, ...