Button Battery ingestion can lead to life threatening complications and death if not identified early and dealt with quickly.

Further information

Celiac disease is considered an autoimmune disease with the external trigger gluten. The immune reaction leads to a destruction of the villi in the small intestine. This results in malnutrition, vitamine deficiencies, diarrhea, abdominal pain and other symptoms. The therapy consists of a gluten free diet.

Constipation is a common problem with up to 25% of children and adolescents affected to some degree. Most can be successfully treated by the pediatrican. In severe cases a consultation with a pediatric gastroenterologist is necessary to rule out an underlying etiology. Our member Beatrice Müller and partners have developed an interactive app PLOP to support patients and parents.

Eosnophilic esophagitis is a kind of asthma of the esophagus. Symptoms include abdominal pain, dysphagy and vomiting. Food is one of the main triggers.

The most common gastrointestinal complaint in our practice is abdominal pain. Fortunately, in most cases there is no underlying somatic disease. In order to learn coping strategies, it is important to understand the concept of functional abdominal pain. Our members have therefore actively supported the ESPGHAN campaign on functional abdominal pain with numerous activities. To raise awareness, the leaflet What is functional abdominal pain and Alex's story were distributed to doctors and patient organizations.

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a chronic disease with two main subtypes - Morbus Crohn and Ulcerative colitis. 20% of patients are already diagnosed in childhood. There is no cure and patients often depend on life-long medical therapy. Our society aims to improve patients and parent education working together with the Crohn Colitis Schweiz and developing brochures (Exclusive enteral nutrition, nutrition in IBD). We also support the Swiss IBD cohort study, a patient registry, and other research activites for enhancing the knowledge about pediatric IBD.

With a MR enterography we can assess the small bowel that can not be reached by endoscopy.

In order to assess the mucosa of the intestinal tract and retrieve very small mucosa samples for further analysis an endoscopy is needed. In our pediatric patients this will be done under sedation by an anesthesist.