What are common causes of pain in sick children?

Intermountain Healthcare

Your sick child's pain can be caused by a number of things, including:

The condition she's being treated for
Injury
Bruising
Trauma
Stress or anxiety
A surgical cut
Muscle spasms or cramps
Tubes inserted into the body during or after the procedure
Muscle pain from lying in a certain position during the procedure, or from lying in bed for a long time afterward
Air or blood in the stomach or chest
Constipation and gas

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Pain

Pain is your body telling you that you have hurt it. This is a good thing, important when you are injured. It can also help diagnose problems with your body. Sometimes pain continues long after it's necessary. Amputees report phantom pain in the legs or arms they no longer have. There are different kinds of pain, and describing the type is useful in diagnosis: recurring, constant, steady, knife-like, radiating, sharp, dull. Medicines that dull pain are analgesics. Those that kill all feeling are anesthetics.

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