(一)腹痛是小儿常见的症状。婴儿不能诉说腹痛,只能以啼哭表示。如哭声尖嚎可能是剧痛;若抱起后哭声停止,至少可以缓解剧痛。即使年龄稍大的儿童,有时也难于表达腹痛的性质及部位。因此,家长应仔细观察,并应注意同时存在的症状如:发热、呕吐、腹泻、便秘、排尿异常及出血等。(二)引起腹痛的疾病除考虑腹部疾病外,也要考虑腹外的疾病,如大叶性肺炎、过敏性紫癜、腹型癫痫及肋间神经痛等。(三)对每一例腹痛需要判断是“外科性”还是“内科性”的腹痛,因为“外科性”腹 (A) abdominal pain is a common symptom in children. Infants can not tell abdominal pain, can only express crying. Such as howling cries may be severe pain; if cries after cessation, at least you can ease the pain. Even older children, sometimes difficult to express the nature and location of abdominal pain. Therefore, parents should be careful observation, and should pay attention to the simultaneous presence of symptoms such as: fever, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, urination and bleeding and so on. (B) of the diseases that cause abdominal pain In addition to considering abdominal disease, but also to consider the extra-abdominal diseases, such as lobar pneumonia, Henoch-Schonlein purpura, abdominal epilepsy and intercostal neuralgia. (C) For each case of abdominal pain need to determine whether the “surgical” or “medical” abdominal pain, because the “surgical” abdominal