Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Delivered Dietary Intervention for Children With Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Brief Summary: The purpose of this study is to determine whether a specific diet may help children with irritable bowel syndrome.


Options:
A: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients were considered for study inclusion, if they were 4 - 12 years of age and had if they had a pain history of at least 12 weeks (which need not be consecutive) in the preceding 12 months suggestive for IBS or FAP with no structural or metabolic abnormalities to explain the symptoms and according to the Rome II diagnostic criteria valid at the time of the design of the study.
* IBS was diagnosed in presence of an abdominal discomfort or pain with at least two of three features:

  * relieved with defecation
  * onset associated with a change in stool frequency
  * onset associated with a change in the form (appearance) of the stool.
* FAP was diagnosed in presence of symptoms of
* Continuous (nearly continuous) abdominal pain
* No or only occasional relation of pain with physiological events (e.g. eating, menses)
* Some loss of daily functioning
* The pain is not feigned (e.g. malingering)
* The patient has insufficient criteria for other functional gastrointestinal disorders that would explain the abdominal pain.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Known concomitant psychiatric, neurological, metabolic, hepatic, renal, infectious, haematological, cardiovascular and pulmonary disease
* Treatment with antibiotics/probiotics in the last 2 months
* A pain history suggestive for functional dyspepsia or aerophagia or abdominal migrain
* Growth failure
* Gastroparesis
* Gastrointestinal obstructions/stricture
* Any disease that may affect bowel motility such as diabetes, connective disease or poorly controlled hypo/hyperthyrodism
* Previous abdominal surgery.
B: Inclusion Criteria:

Must include all of the following:

1. Children between the ages of 7-17 years;
2. Meet the criteria for IBS based on the Questionnaire on Pediatric Gastrointestinal Symptoms Rome III Version, including pain/discomfort a minimum of twice per week;
3. Negative physician evaluation for an organic etiology of the pain within the past year

Exclusion Criteria:

Will include any of the following:

1. Diabetes or other disease process requiring specialized dietary management;
2. Malnutrition or obesity (BMI \>95%);
3. Inability to eat by mouth;
4. Antibiotic or medicinal probiotic usage within the past 3 months (excluding yogurt);
5. Neuromodulator (e.g. amitriptyline) usage within the past 3 months
6. Start of, or change in gastrointestinal medication (e.g. laxative) dose that may cause or ameliorate abdominal symptoms within the past month
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* Healthy children

Exclusion Criteria:

* Any chronic or organic illness
D: Inclusion Criteria:

* abdominal pain related disorder (functional dyspepsia, irritable bowel syndrome or functional abdominal pain (FAPS) diagnosed according to Rome III criteria.

Exclusion Criteria:

* organic gastrointestinal disease (as established by medical history, complete blood count, urinalysis, stool examination for occult blood, ova and parasites, blood chemistries, abdominal ultrasound, breath hydrogen testing and endoscopy, if needed)
* other chronic disease
* growth failure

Answer: B