What to do if your stomach hurts
Educational Program Health / / December 19, 2019
Why stomach hurts
When we have a stomachache, it is difficult to understand: whether it is a trifle, and let it be for a couple of minutes, whether it is necessary to urgently call either have to suffer a couple of days in an ambulance.
Stomach can chop, squeeze, squeeze, become swollen, cut. Nor is it always possible to pinpoint where exactly it hurts because it hurts just... in the stomach.
The stomach can be given not only the pain of the gastrointestinal tract, but also from the kidney, bladder, internal genital organs. In general, abdominal ache can be anything.
All these different types of pain require different actions. To understand what is happening and how to treat it, try not to focus on the pain, and other symptoms that accompany it.
What symptoms should pay attention
Problems with a chair
When you have constipation, the most likely cause of the pain - it is a violation of the intestine. How to get rid of constipation, Layfhaker wrote extensively.
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Diarrhea often accompanied by a variety of gastrointestinal disorders, including infection and poisoning. In any case, loose stools - it is an occasion to sit on a sparing diet, and drink as much as possible because due to diarrhea is often dehydration.
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Yet it is an occasion to take chelators such as activated carbon and its modern counterparts, to withdraw from the body that cause diarrhea.
Nausea and vomiting
Most often occur in cases of poisoning and intestinal infections. During vomiting need to drink a lot, as well as diarrhea. Choose a nice drink (not coffee or soda), drink small sips often and not to provoke another bout of vomiting.
No solutions do not necessary to gastric lavage. It is better to buy in the drugstore rehydration solution and drink it. Chelators can also help if they are in liquid form and convenient for you to take them.
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Discomfort in the abdomen
Maybe you do not feel pain, bloating, or nausea. Then, most likely, you indigestion - what's called indigestion. It runs itself.
Burning sensation behind the breastbone - it is heartburn, in which the contents of the stomach is thrown up into the esophagus. How to cope with this feeling, we describe in detail in an article.
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Just hurts and nothing else
Wait. Just a pain in the abdomen can not drown analgesics or antispasmodics, because many serious symptoms begin with mild pain. And if the pain increases, it is necessary to seek help.
The tablets may mask the pain, so that you will go to the doctors later than we would have.
Exception - pain during menstruation, when you know exactly why and why a stomach ache.
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When to see a doctor
Ordinary, everyday causes of abdominal pain such as dyspepsia (indigestion), or constipation may not require any medical treatment. But contact your doctor if:
- The pain is severe or gets worse, and does not subside.
- Do you feel that the pain surrounds you.
- Very sore somewhere on the right (this may be appendicitisAnd problems with the gall bladder).
- You lose weight because of pain in the abdomen.
- Symptoms persist for 2-3 days.
- You have risen temperature.
- Do you think that your case is not an ordinary pain, and you should consult a doctor.
When to call an ambulance
In some cases, everything is so bad and confused that a person with abdominal pain urgently need to bring to the table for surgeons, so they immediately determined what happened and quickly eliminate the cause of pain. This condition is called acute abdomen. This set of symptoms, which indicates that only surgery can help in this case, and the sooner the better.
Signs of acute abdomen:
- Severe pain in any area of the abdomen.
- Cold sweat.
- Forced situation: the patient can only be in a certain position.
- Vomiting blood or vomit color of coffee grounds.
- Black stools or bloody stools.
In any case, it is necessary to urgently call an ambulance, to list the symptoms, to lay the patient so that he did not have to make any unnecessary movements. On the stomach, it is desirable to put something cold. For example, an ice pack, even impromptu, from frozen vegetables.
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