PEDIATRICS Vol. 46 No. 6 December 1970, pp. 968
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Letter To The Editor

William Feldman M.D., F.R.C.P.(C)1

1 Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

I take issue with many of the points raised in Drs. Stone and Barbero's article on recurrent abdominal pain.1 First, their conclusion that recurrent abdominal pain in childhood is a form of "the irritable bowel syndrome" is not helpful-it is like substituting the word idiopathic for unknown.

Second, they exposed their patients to considerable irradiation-102 upper gastrointestinal series and barium enemas were done. All of these examinations were normal, as anyone who has dealt with recurrent abdominal pain in childhood might have predicted.