Abdominal pain and treatment

Abdominal pain

abdominal pain

When should you see a doctor?
Not having any abdominal pain should consult a doctor immediately - but there are some warning signs that you should consider:
The abdominal pain or stick to worsen and are not alleviate with the usual home remedies - can an acute inflammation of e.g. Appendicitis or gallbladder indicate.
The abdominal pain is accompanied by severe nausea, vomiting and fever. You feel weak and the pain is accompanied by a co-reaction of the cycle as increased heart beat or dizziness - symptoms’ accompanying this speaks for a serious event, such as an acute abdomen pancreatic or a ruptured appendix.
With you so far is not a disease, which is accompanied by abdominal pain, known. The pain occurs repeatedly. Let's clarify whether you may have developed food intolerance, porphyritic’ or bile semolina, small intestinal imaginations (diverticulitis) or an intestinal tumor can cause abdominal pain.
Pay attention to your bowel behavior - with changed bowel movement frequency or color you go with a doctor's visit on the safe side.
What can you do against stomach ache?
Abdominal pain is always a symptom and not a disease, i.e., in addition to pain relief measures should be, he looks at persistent or recurring discomfort always the cause. Sometimes already helps a hot water bottle, a stomach soothing tea, a day Rusk or no food, other people swear by movement, easily digestible vegetable enzymes or particularly spicy foods - try out what is right for you.
How can the causes of abdominal pain, eh?
With careful palpation of pain can often be limited. With some simple steps can be as increase in acute appendicitis pain. In addition, gives thorough medical history information as to which organ of the pain most likely originates. So take some pain as a function of food intake on - in bleary complaints are pain after food intake before, during a gastric ulcer the pain is often worse in the fasting state.
The type of food can give hints: pain after fat meals suggest problems with gall bladder or pancreas. The chair behavior, such as Diarrhea, constipation, and stool color is also helpful to have a stool test on blood or infectious agents can, for example, exclude a bowel tumor or a gastrointestinal infection.
Abdominal pain in the elderly
An important role is played by the age of the person concerned. While in children abdominal pain can be a common cold or headache, a very common and non-specific symptom itself, other diseases must be excluded in elderly patients:
for example, in someone with known cardiovascular disease a heart attack or an aortic aneurysm,
In patients in whom a "sensitive" stomach is known, perhaps food intolerance, as this can aggravate the course of life,
In middle-aged people with emerging frequent abdominal pain and an intestinal tumor
Abdominal pain: further studies
These first results will prompt physicians to conduct further investigations. With a blood test can be clarified whether inflammation in the body and whether e.g. Liver, gallbladder or pancreas are involved in the disease process, with the urine test are kidney and urinary system checked. The ultrasonic changes in the liver, gall bladder and routes, pancreas and kidney are seen. Even some intestinal disorders can be detected with today's ultrasound machines.
With X-ray images and especially the endoscopic gastric or endoscopy to get diseases in the abdominal compartment on the track, on suspicion of a gynecological disease, the internal sex organs are scanned and examined with ultrasound. In cases of suspected heart disease usually help further an EKG and an ultrasound of the heart.
If the pain can be triggered either by the handles is still in a context of food intake, a muscle strain or spine problems can be discussed with functional movement exercises. Is it possible to find all methods with no organic cause for the abdominal pain, irritable bowel syndrome may be present