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Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello, everyone, and welcome.

Once again to Pediacast.

It is a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike, coming to you from the campus of nationwide children's hospital.

We are in Columbus, Ohio.

It's episode 449 for January 14th, 2020.

We're calling this one Rumination Syndrome.

I want to welcome all of you to the program.

So today's topic is one of those things that is certainly out there.

In fact, in one small study, it's estimated to affect about 5% of children, although we don't really know exactly what the prevalence of this condition is.

There aren't a lot of studies out there that cover large populations of kids.

But if that one small study does hold to be true across the entire United States,

we're talking about one in 20 kids, which means about one child for every classroom of 20 kids on average.

So, you know, it's one of those things that's, I wouldn't necessarily call it rare, but it's out there.

It's something that we see quite a bit.

And again, it is called rumination syndrome.

And yet, if a random parent is playing trivia crack and the question comes up, what is

rumination syndrome, I think some folks would have trouble telling what exactly it is.

There may even be some pediatric providers out there that, you know, have a vague idea,

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