Abdominal discomfort can occur after overeating or poisoning as a result of infection with intestinal infections or a bacterium, which settles in the stomach and leads to the destruction of its wall, or due to a malfunction of the internal organs.
Regardless of the cause of dysfunction, a person always feels a pain syndrome. It is he who makes it clear that there has been a failure in the well-functioning system. By the nature of pain, its intensity and localization, we can assume the cause of its occurrence. But sometimes there are irradiating or wandering pains in the abdomen, which complicates the diagnosis.
What causes discomfort in the abdomen
To understand what treatment is necessary, you need to understand how the stomach hurts and where it hurts. In the abdominal cavity is the stomach, intestines, gall bladder, pancreas, liver, spleen, kidneys, bladder. Pathological processes occurring in the peritoneum, can cause pain of varying intensity and duration.
Thus, a prolonged aching or dull pain, the intensity of which varies depending on the position of the body, can be a result of disruption of the bowel, which leads to a delay in stool and gas accumulation.
In this case, the emptying of the intestine will help to remove the pain. To help yourself you need to take a laxative, change the diet, adding more fiber and sour-milk products. Prolonged acute, burning or cutting pain occurs if inflammation develops in the abdomen. It can be a stomach or duodenal ulcer, cholelithiasis, pancreatitis.
The aching sensations that appeared at the bottom of the epigastrium and give to the perineal region, accompanied by weakness, chills, indicate the presence of gynecological problems in women or bowel disease in men.
The nature of the pain and its cause are related to each other
If it hurts in the upper abdomen, this may indicate pathological processes in the liver, gall bladder, pancreas, spleen. Pain in the lower abdomen can be a sign of appendicitis, poisoning or gynecological disease.
What is abdominal pain in the abdomen
In order for the doctor to be able to guess which disease the patient has and direct him to the necessary tests and studies that confirm or disprove his guess, the patient should accurately describe the type of pain that appears in the abdomen, where exactly it arisesand how long has it bothered.
But sometimes it is difficult to understand the precise localization of pain, because it can move and arise from the left, then to the right. As a rule, such wandering pain speaks of the dysfunction of one organ, rather than the neighboring ones.
In most cases it hurts exactly in the area where the organ is located, whose work is broken. But it also happens that the pain gives completely to another place. In this case, the pain is called irradiating. For example, the liver does not have nerve endings, so it can not hurt.
Discomfort in the patient appears when the size of the body as a result of inflammation is significantly increased, and it begins to press on the adjacent anatomical areas. Another example, the patient complains of severe abdominal pain localized on the left and above, and the study shows that the right lung function is disrupted.
Causes of wandering abdominal pain:
- shingles;
- diarrhea;
- ulcerative colitis;
- occlusion of the ureter by a stone;
- acute appendicitis;
- ectopic pregnancy;
- inflammation of the pelvic organs( cyst, swelling of the ovary, uterus).
With wandering pain, it is difficult to determine which organ is impaired. For this purpose, laboratory and hardware studies are carried out. The pain moves along with the fact that it causes, for example, a stone, a foreign object, calves, a parasite.
Disturbance of the digestive tract can lead to malfunction of all body systems
What can cause wandering pain
Acute appendicitis begins with wandering pain, then after several hours it is already localized in a certain area, namely in the upper right part of the abdomen under the ribs. With inflammation of the appendix, the patient takes a forced position of the body, as this facilitates the condition. One of the signs of appendicitis is that the pain subsides if the patient lies on his right side, and on the contrary grows if lies on the left.
If the stomach hurts on the left and at the same time gives back, while there are problems with urination, there is swelling and bags under the eyes, this is a sign of a disease of the excretory system, mainly the kidneys. If the left side hurts in the hypochondrium or the iliac bone, then the cause is a wandering kidney. The peculiarity of the disease is that the pain passes in the prone position.
Wandering pain that spreads from the waist to the bottom of the abdomen may be a sign of a bladder disease or kidney stone disease. With urolithiasis in any organ of the urinary system can form a stone. These stones are able to migrate to the underlying organs.
For example, a stone from the kidneys can descend into the ureters, bladder, urethra. When the ureter is blocked, there is a paroxysmal pain, which increases with active movement, an increase in body temperature occurs. Pain in renal colic can give in the lower back, lower abdomen, inguinal region.
While "wandering" the stone, a person will experience the pain syndrome
Diarrhea can begin for various reasons. They can also be relatively harmless( for example, overeating, eating too fatty foods), and are the result of serious poisoning. With diarrhea, the motor function is increased, which leads to an accelerated emptying of the intestine.
This symptom is dangerous because dehydration of the body occurs and the necessary substances do not enter the blood. Especially dangerous is diarrhea, in which there is a wandering pain in the abdomen, this may be a sign of a disorder in the structure of the intestinal mucosa.
Shingles is an infection that affects the central nervous system. Its symptoms are a rise in body temperature, rashes in the form of vesicles that appear along the perimeter of the affected nerve. The patient feels severe itching and stitching at the site of the lesion.
Pain can be of a different nature. It can be permanent, patients describe it as a severe burning sensation, or allodynic, when a burning pain occurs when the affected nerve is affected.
Pain sensations in the abdomen without a clear localization can appear on the nerves. Pain in this case does not occur in the field of a particular organ, it is rather "spilled" throughout the abdomen. It does not happen to be acute. In this case, there may be a violation of the stool and imperative urges to defecate.
Wandering tenderness in the navel is a sign of irritable bowel syndrome. In this case, the patient is also observed swelling, rumbling in the abdomen, diarrhea, replacing constipation. If the patient is worried about wandering abdominal pain, the doctor will prescribe a comprehensive examination.
You will definitely need to pass urine, blood and stool tests. On their basis the doctor will be able to judge the work of the excretory and digestive system. Also necessary will be assigned the necessary hardware studies that will help to find the causes of the malfunction and the appearance of wandering pain in the abdomen.
What to do if the stomach hurts
You should not solve the problem yourself if the abdominal pain is accompanied by the following symptoms:
- discomfort for a long time does not pass or the intensity increases;
- body temperature increases;
- in fecal masses visible blood;
- pulse is rapid;
- if discomfort occurs after injury;
- if urine of unusual color or in it there was a blood;
- appeared vomiting of dark color.
If you have any of these signs, you should seek medical help
Before the arrival of a doctor, you need to ensure complete peace. If there is a suspicion of appendicitis, then it is not recommended to give an anesthetic, as this may affect the objectivity of tests that confirm the inflammation of the appendix. If the symptoms are not similar to appendicitis, then to relieve the pain, you can drink an antispasmodic drug( No-shpu, Papaverin).
Without the permission of the doctor with strong pain in the abdomen, you can not drink and eat, take laxatives or do enemas. It is forbidden to warm up the abdominal area, since if the cause is a bacterial infection, this will contribute to its development.
If there is a wandering pain in the abdomen, then do not engage in self-medication, you should immediately consult a general practitioner. After the study, he will find out which body has failed and will send to a highly specialized specialist, for example, a urologist, gynecologist, hepatologist, gastroenterologist.
