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Colic - infantile - Background information
What is it?
- Infantile colic is defined for clinical purposes as repeated episodes of excessive and inconsolable crying in an infant that otherwise appears to be healthy and thriving [National Collaborating Centre for Primary Care, 2006].
- Researchers use more specific definitions, often that of [Wessel et al, 1954]: paroxysms of irritability, fussing or crying lasting for a total of three hours a day and occurring on more than three days in any one week for a period of three weeks in an infant who is otherwise healthy and well-fed [Wessel et al, 1954].
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