Gastrointestinal System Related Articles & Blog Posts

My 8 yr. old daughter has been suffering from upper abdominal pain for three months. She says the pain is right above the navel and to the right about an inch. Also she has a bulge where the pain…

Dr. Greene, my daughter often gets yeast infections. I’ve heard that active-culture yogurt can prevent or treat vaginal yeast infections and also diarrhea. Is this true? Or is it just an old wives’ tale?
Palo Alto, California

Can yogurt help prevent or treat vaginal yeast infections?

The opposite of antibiotics are probiotics – a term coined in 1965 to describe substances that favor the growth of beneficial microorganisms in the body.

Spitting up is common in babies, but a few infants can hardly keep anything down. When the valve at the bottom of the stomach gets too tight, we call it pyloric stenosis, a condition that affects about 0.3% of babies.

What is rotavirus?

Rotaviruses are the leading cause of both routine vomiting and diarrheal illnesses and of severe, life-threatening diarrhea in every country in the world. Click here to read more about rotaviruses.

Dr. Greene, my 16-month-old son died of complications of bacterial meningitis on 17 December 1997. Up until 14 Dec he was healthy. He got sick on Sunday, 14 December 1997, we took him to the pediatrician on Monday the…