A worried mother of a 4-year-old boy describing attacks of inconsolable crying episodes of her child
belongs to book: MCQs in Pediatrics Review of Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics|Zuhair M Almusawi, Hasanein Ghali|20th edition| Chapter number:2| Question number:2.19
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B). Classicaltemper tantrums of children usually result from fear, overtiredness, inconsistent expectations, or physical discomfort. Tantrums normally appear toward the end of the lst yr of life and peak in prevalence between 2 and 4 years of age. Tantrums lasting more than 15 min or regularly occurring more than 3 times/day may reflect underlying medical, emotional, or soaal problems. In the scenario the episodes takes long time to resolve and the mother paints to problem in soaal development. Here we need to investigate the developmental domains and to do systemic examrnationto checkoutfor any developmental/physicalproblem before referring the childto pediatric psychiatrist which the next most appropriate chorce
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