Children sometimes have inexplicable paroxysmal abdominal pain, and the symptoms are not relieved after taking dewormers or other drugs; when they go to the hospital for examination, the children are often normal, and no reason can be found for the onset of the child. In fact, this abdominal pain of children is not a disease, but a normal physiological phenomenon in the growth process of children, medically known as pediatric gastrointestinal growing pains. Pediatric gastrointestinal growing pains are mostly seen in children between the ages of 4 and 12, especially in school-age children. This is due to the rapid growth and development of children at this stage, the blood supply of the body appears to be relatively insufficient, and the gastrointestinal tract appears to be spasmodically contracted in a state of temporary ischemia and causes pain. In addition, due to insufficient blood supply, the autonomic nerve function of the body is disturbed, resulting in a mismatch between excitation and inhibition of the nerves in the intestinal wall, resulting in strong contraction of the smooth muscles of the intestine, which can also cause gastrointestinal pain. The main manifestation of pediatric gastrointestinal growing pains is characterized by recurrent episodes of pain within a certain period of time, each of which is not long, usually not more than 10 minutes, and some children can occur several times a week. The pain site is not fixed, mainly around the abdomen, followed by the upper abdomen. The degree of pain also varies, from mild abdominal discomfort to severe colic-like pain, with pale faces and often accompanied by nausea and vomiting, and sometimes a gurgling bowel sound can be heard. However, this severe pain is short-lived and will be relieved soon, after which the child’s mental state, diet and other activities are normal. For children with this kind of gastrointestinal growing pains generally do not need special treatment, if the pain is more serious, you can use hot compresses or massage the abdomen and the foot three li acupuncture point, which is very good for relieving pain. It should be noted that there are many causes of abdominal pain in children, and it is important not to mistake abdominal pain caused by other causes for gastrointestinal growing pains, which should be treated as gastrointestinal growing pains only after a clear diagnosis by a doctor and the exclusion of other pains, which should be noted. After this age, this phenomenon of gastrointestinal pain in children will not happen again.