Abstract
The functional digestive pathology of the child in the first year of life is frequently encountered in the medical practice and is difficult to manage, diagnose and treat. The current general medical approach does not treat mother and child in the first year after birth as a biological unit, thus leaving out the perspective of the association of functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGID) with an impairment of maternal-child emotional relationship, resulting in uncertain therapeutic results. This perspective of the problem has been approached by maternology, a newer branch of medical sciences, which has been born on the assumption that most of the handicaps stem from a relational difficulty between the mother and her infant. Maternology integrates the child’s suffering from the perspective of the emotional relationship of the parent-child couple, emphasizing that the mother and the child is a biological unit that needs to be diagnosed and treated together, thus giving a new view in addressing the baby’s functional sufferings.
Highlights
The functional digestive pathology of the child in the first year of life is frequently encountered in medical practice
Functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGID) represent a group of disorders which are difficult to manage from a diagnosis and treatment standpoint
It is mentioned in the literature that there is a link between parents’ psychological state and abdominal symptomatology in children, and that the management of the most common FGID, such as infantile colic and regurgitation, should focus on education and parent reassurance, and nutritional advice, such as recommendations on volume, frequency, feeding techniques (1,5)
Summary
The functional digestive pathology of the child in the first year of life is frequently encountered in medical practice. There are talks about specific intervention strategies that could enhance maternal regulatory dyadic competence to prevent functional disorders during infancy and childhood (8) This perspective of the problem has been approached by maternology, which was born based on the hypothesis that most of the disabilities come from a relational difficulty between mother and her infant (except for genetic problems or accidents). Clinical observation of the newborn and infant shows that the lack of transfer of totality from mother to child creates the possibility for birth diseases (“disorders of the psychological birth” or disnatality), on the child’s side and maternal diseases, meaning the sufferings and difficulties of the mother(12,13). This is the subject of maternology, which is the medicine of the first bond
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