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Also known as Infantile colic
medical condition
Key facts
- Other names
- Infantile colic
- Specialty
- Pediatrics
- Symptoms
- Crying for more than three hours a day, for more than three days a week, for three weeks
- Complications
- Frustration for the parents, depression following delivery , child abuse
- Usual onset
- Six weeks of age
- Duration
- Typically goes away by six months of age
- Causes
- Unknown
- Diagnostic method
- Based on symptoms after ruling out other possible causes
- Differential diagnosis
- Corneal abrasion , hair tourniquet , hernia , testicular torsion
- Treatment
- Conservative treatment , extra support for the parents
- Prognosis
- No long term problems
- Frequency