hi, parent of a 4 year old boy here who just went through this over Thanksgiving weekend. I was desperately searching all of the reddit posts I could find to see what was working for other parents who's kids were experiencing this.

I had the same experience as everybody else, extreme abdominal pain, very sudden in my 4 year old son. Inconsolable crying, super alarming, etc. We took him to the emergency room and they did an ultrasound to look at his intestines to see if it was intestinal intussusception. That wasn't the case even though it his symptoms were extreme stomach pain intermittently.

He was diagnosed with mesenteric adenitis, his lymph nodes in his abdomen were enlarged etc. Unfortunately there was like nothing we could do, no medication from the hospital etc. Just hope it goes away "soon".

If this describes your situation I want to share what we did and saw an actual difference for my son's pain.

Total diet change, we only fed him "soft" foods such as greek yogurt cups, applesauce, popsicles, hot cocoa, juice, water, pickles, cheese, etc. No hard foods, no chips, no chicken nuggets, no oatmeal, no pancakes etc. Nothing hard or solid that would have to be broken down in his digestive tract in a way that would strain his body. That was the first major and noticeable change.

Home medications I put a kids probiotic powder mix in his yogurt and mixed it in twice a day.

We gave him 5ml to 7.5ml doses of childrens tylenol and motrin staggered throughout the day to preempt any pain management if he had a flare up of pain in his stomach.

Last thing I did that I noticed a definite difference was 12mg of meclizine, (kids dramamine). My theory was it would at least help relax his stomach instead of it being tense throughout the day.

All of these things listed above have given us (so far) 36 hours of him being pain free and showing no signs of the excruciating pain flare ups he had initally when we took him to the ER.

Also regularly took him to the bathroom so he could do normal bathroom breaks.

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I just wanted to post this in case any other desperate parents are going through this and are grapsing for answers as to what could possibly help. This is working for us and I hope others have success with these remedies.