Special Projects: Functional Disorders

Aydan Kansu – Turkey

Probiotics in IBS

• Gut microbiota alterations are increasingly being recognised as an important factor in the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of IBS

• Positive effect of treatment with non-absorbable antibiotics and probiotics in IBS

• Bifidobacterium breve• Bifidobacterium longum• Bifidobacterium infantis• Lactobacillus acidophilus• Lactobacillus casai• Lactobacillus plantarum• Lactobacillus bulgaricus• Streptococcus salivarius thermophilus

Functional Constipation

Functional Abdominal Pain

Eosinophilic Esophagitis

• EoE has become recognised as an important clinicopathologic entity over the past years.

• Symptoms feeding difficultiesFTTGERnausea, vomitingepigastric painfood impactiondysphagiavery frequently associated with

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The incidence and prevalence of EoE in children in different geographic regions, in different racial background and in different disease states have not been extensively studied.