Rome IV pediatric diagnostic criteria for rumination syndrome
Rome IV pediatric diagnostic criteria for rumination syndrome
Diagnostic criteria* for rumination syndrome
Must include all of the following:
Repeated regurgitation and rechewing or expulsion of food that:
Begins soon after ingestion of a meal
Does not occur during sleep
Not preceded by retching
After appropriate evaluation, the symptoms cannot be fully explained by another medical condition. An eating disorder must be ruled out.
*Criteria fulfilled for at least 2 months before diagnosis.
Reproduced from: Hyams JS, Di Lorenzo C, Saps M, et al. Functional Disorders: Children and Adolescents. Gastroenterology 2016. Table used with the permission of Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.