Complementary therapies in paediatric gastroenterology : prevalence, safety and efficacy studies

Thesis

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Title pages

Contents

General introduction and outline of this thesis

Chapter 1: The use of complementary and alternative medicine in children at a general paediatric clinic and parental reasons for use

Chapter 2: Use of complementary and alternative medicine in paediatric patients with functional and organic gastrointestinal diseases : results from a multi-centre survey

Chapter 3: Chronic abdominal pain, including functional abdominal pain, irritable bowel syndrome and abdominal migraine

Chapter 4: Hypnotherapy for children with functional abdominal pain or irritable bowel syndrome : a randomized controlled trial

Chapter 5: No change in rectal sensitivity after gut-directed hypnotherapy in children with functional abdominal pain and irritable bowel syndrome

Chapter 6: No short term effect of gut-directed hypnotherapy on psychological profiles of children with functional abdominal pain and irritable bowel syndrome

Chapter 7: Tolerance and safety of L. paracasei ssp. paracasei in combination with B. animalis ssp. lactis in a prebiotic-containing infant formula : a randomized controlled trial

Chapter 8: Change in microbiota after consumption of Bifidobacterium lactis Bb12 in combination with Lactobacillus paracasei CRL431 by healthy term infants

Summary and general discussion

Samenvatting en discussie

List of contributing authors and list of publications

Dankwoord