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Abdominal (stomach) pain is pain felt anywhere between your child's chest and groin.

Pain in this area may have a wide range of causes, such as a stomach bug or infection, or eating a lot of acidy fruit.

Abdominal (stomach) pain is felt anywhere between your toddler's chest and groin, and can have a wide range of causes.

Often, stomach pain is due to a stomach or bowel upset that usually clears up without treatment.

Diarrhoea is often a caused by an infection, resulting from a virus or food poisoning.

Symptoms include:

Although most babies have loose stools occasionally, diarrhoea is when your baby frequently passes unformed, watery stools (poo).

Diarrhoea is often caused by a virus, and can be accompanied by vomiting (being sick).

Diarrhoea and vomiting is very common, especially in children. It usually clears up in a couple of days.

Help stop diarrhoea spreading by teaching your family how to wash their hands after going to the toilet, and before eating.

The symptoms of poisoning vary depending on the substance and the amount taken into the body.

Be aware of any sudden, unexplained illness in young children, particularly if they are drowsy or unconscious, as these can be symptoms of poisoning.

Vomiting (being sick) can have a number of causes, such as a stomach upset caused by an infection, or food poisoning.

It is important that you replace the fluids lost through vomiting, to avoid dehydration, by drinking lots of clear liquid.

Advice for if your baby is affected by vomiting includes:

Many children who have vomiting are sick just once and then recover quickly. Some may even say that they are hungry almost straightaway.

But it is important to find out what is causing the vomiting, so that you can treat the cause.

Toddlers who have been vomiting should be given plenty of clear drinks to replace lost fluids.

They should not go back to playschool or childcare until at least 48 hours after the last episode of vomiting.

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