Acute pain in the stomach

In the medical language, stomach pains are called gastralgia. It is a condition in which a person experiences various kinds of unpleasant sensations in the region of the left hypochondrium. The stomach is located in the area called the epigastrium. Acute pain in the stomach is felt in it, above the horizontal, conditionally passing through the navel and under the arch of the ribs of the thorax.

For such unpleasant moments many people complain today. They can be characterized not only by the cause of their occurrence, but also by their intensity and character. And to eliminate this problem, you first need to find out the reason that causes them.

So, the intensity depends on the type of stomach disease. Although judging the nature of the ongoing disease, only in terms of the intensity of pain in it, it is quite difficult. Mainly, because the assessment of the degree of pain sensations directly affects the individual characteristics of the organism, as well as the personal perception of the unpleasant sensations by the patient.

In general, mild pains indicate chronic gastritis, less often - on peptic ulcer or stomach cancer. Often the patient does not attach importance to such feelings, thereby aggravating the disease. Severe acute pain in the stomach can signal a peptic ulcer that affects the duodenum or intestine, and duodenitis.

Sometimes the intensity of pain in these diseases is an order of magnitude higher. And only in those cases, patients immediately seek medical help. When the pain reaches its maximum degree, the patient has a painful shock. Such unpleasant sensations in the stomach occur with a perforated ulcer.

It should be noted that patients who have previously operated on the stomach, may not even feel severe pain when exacerbating the ulcer. However, in rare cases they can occur in such patients, only weak ones.

Acute pain in the stomach is of a certain nature, due to which not only any specific disease is described and confirmed, but also the presence of certain complications. So, importunate and burning, which occurs with gastritis or ulcerative disease, may indicate the appearance of solarite. A dull whining - is often a companion of chronic gastritis with preserved secretion or ulcerative stomach disease.

Sometimes with peptic ulcer there are sharp, spasmodic pains. With a gastritis with a decreased secretory function, there is a feeling of bursting and heaviness. Colic in the stomach can serve as a signal for pancreatitis, colitis, or cholecystitis.

The causes of all these pains differ in determining character in diagnosing a particular disease. As a rule, their occurrence is influenced by such factors:

• The period of food intake;
• Quality of consumed food;
• Neuropsychic overload;
• Exercise stress.

Sometimes, the occurrence of pain associated with duodenitis and duodenal ulcer, affects more than the last two factors. But with stomach cancer, often the causes of the appearance of unpleasant sensations remain completely vague.

With chronic gastritis, colic is observed immediately after ingestion, especially if it is rough and sour. Often this causes fear in the patient before eating, which leads to a rejection of it or, worse, starvation.

In addition, such pains occur not only immediately after eating, but after an hour and a half (peptic ulcer disease), two hours (a peptic ulcer in the duodenum), and "hungry" nocturnal colic appear with duodenitis and peptic ulcer all that Same duodenum.

With pain in the stomach, no matter what the nature, intensity or frequency, you should immediately seek the advice of an experienced specialist and begin appropriate treatment. In this case, you may need the help of a gastroenterologist, surgeon or oncologist.

Do not forget that apart from medical treatment, certain rules are required. Thus, acute pain in the stomach should be treated by normalizing the diet (a fractional sparing diet, eating at least 4-5 times a day, eliminating the acute, roasted and salty), quitting smoking and any alcoholic beverages, reducing physical and mental stress .