Rumination in two developmentally normal children: case report and review of the literature.
This report describes the cases of two normal 6-year-old children, both of whom experienced rumination for a period of 6 to 8 months, followed by full remission. For each of these children, rumination was a reaction to situational stress (adoption and maladaption, respectively). These cases represent the addition of a new form of rumination to the literature: a benign, self-limited childhood disorder of mentally and developmentally normal children, distinctly different from "rumination disorder," as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III-R).
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Family Health Care Department, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Faculty of Medicine, Haifa.
D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005764:Gastroesophageal Reflux / Q000523:psychology*; D006128:Growth; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008409:Mastication