 Hello everyone, I am Dr. Srikanth. I am a consultant, pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology, nutrition at Manipal Hospital's Bangalore. So chronic pain abdomen is a painful condition because of various reasons when it lasts significantly longer duration. So we take a cut off of somewhere from one month to three months. So it is because of various diseases of the abdomen where it can be because of the simple reasons like functional constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, reflux disease and to a serious conditions like acute or acute recurrent or even chronic pancreatitis, Crohn's disease or even congenital abnormalities of the abdomen which leads to severe pain. So whenever child has a long standing pain that definitely indicates that there is a disease inside and we should evaluate it completely rather than just ignoring it. So based on certain blood investigation, imaging of the abdomen and even examination of the stool we can correctly arrive at the diagnosis and promptly the treatment can be initiated for a better outcome.