Medical Health Encyclopedia

The health care provider will perform a physical examination and ask questions like the following:

• Is the child teething?
• Is the child bored, lonely, hungry, thirsty?
• Does the child seem to have a lot of gas (flatus)?
• Are the parents nervous or anxious?
• What other symptoms are also present?
  • Is the child irritable?
  • Is the child hard to arouse?
  • Does the child have a poor appetite?
  • Does the child have a fever?
  • Is the child vomiting?

For bacterial infections, antibiotics may be prescribed. The provider will assess the infant's growth and development.

After seeing your provider, you may want to add a diagnosis related to excessive crying to your child's personal medical record.