Does IBS affect children differently than adults?

Does IBS affect children differently than adults?

Lin Chang (UCLA Division of Digestive Diseases) gives expert video advice on: What is 'irritable bowel syndrome' or IBS?; What does 'irritable' mean in terms of IBS?; What is a 'bowel'? and more...

The diagnosis of functional gastrointestinal disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome in the paediatric population, up until recently, it was not really well described. It was termed functional abdominal pain or what is known as "RAP": recurrent abdominal pain, but now, with the Rome Foundation, which developed all these symptom-based diagnostic criteria for these disorders, just came up with a whole host of paediatric conditions, and names for these conditions. Now it is termed functional abdominal pain. If you only have pain as a child but no change in your bowel habits, but it is term IBS in children now if you have pain and it leads to a change in bowel habits.