Crying
Basics
DESCRIPTION
- Crying is usually a normal physiologic response to stress, discomfort, unfulfilled needs such as hunger, pain, over- or understimulation, or temperature change.
- Crying is felt to be potentially pathologic if it is interpreted by caregivers as differing in quality and duration without apparent explanation and/or persists without consolability beyond a reasonable time (generally 1 to 2 hours).
EPIDEMIOLOGY
Excessive crying in the 1st months of life, per parental reports, occurs in about 1 in 5 infants.
ETIOLOGY
- The most likely cause of inconsolable crying in the first few months of life is infantile colic.
- However, colic is a diagnosis of exclusion.
- Practitioners must be familiar with the clinical pattern of infantile colic so that deviations are readily recognized.
- Organic problems are identified in 5% or less of afebrile excessively crying infants.
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Citation
Cabana, Michael D., editor. "Crying." Select 5-Minute Pediatrics Topics, 7th ed., Wolters Kluwer Health, 2015. Medicine Central, im.unboundmedicine.com/medicine/view/Select-5-Minute-Pediatric-Consult/14065/all/Crying.
Crying. In: Cabana MDM, ed. Select 5-Minute Pediatrics Topics. Wolters Kluwer Health; 2015. https://im.unboundmedicine.com/medicine/view/Select-5-Minute-Pediatric-Consult/14065/all/Crying. Accessed December 12, 2024.
Crying. (2015). In Cabana, M. D. (Ed.), Select 5-Minute Pediatrics Topics (7th ed.). Wolters Kluwer Health. https://im.unboundmedicine.com/medicine/view/Select-5-Minute-Pediatric-Consult/14065/all/Crying
Crying [Internet]. In: Cabana MDM, editors. Select 5-Minute Pediatrics Topics. Wolters Kluwer Health; 2015. [cited 2024 December 12]. Available from: https://im.unboundmedicine.com/medicine/view/Select-5-Minute-Pediatric-Consult/14065/all/Crying.
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