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Symptoms of disease - pain in the right part of the abdomen

Abdominal pain may be a symptom of many diseases. The stomach is not a single organ, such a heart or liver. The stomach is filled with many different organs, tissues, structures, etc. And every organ located in the abdomen, may fall ill. First of all, you should pay attention to the sudden sharp pain in the abdomen. This pain may be the first symptom to provide immediate medical assistance. Many of the bodies of a belly cavity. For example, the stomach, the intestines, the gall bladder. And if one of them fails (corked, bursts), then your life is in danger. If a sharp sudden pain lasts for more than 30 minutes - we need to call the doctor immediately or go to the hospital, to eliminate the arisen an urgent surgical pathology.

Dream on diagnosis you can as long as you want, but only on the way to hospital. Because if it is, for example, perforation (rupture or hole in the stomach), it must be sutured immediately. To the best for yourself to understand, that can mean pain in the stomach, you need to know the following. Conditionally your stomach is divided into four quadrants (or segment), upper right, upper left, lower right, lower left. Localization of any symptom can now be linked to one of the four quadrants.

Which diseases there is pain in the right part of the abdomen

Pain in the upper right portion of the abdomen (or pain in the right hypochondrium)). In this regard, there are human body organs such as the liver, gall bladder, part of the intestine, the pancreas, the right part of the diaphragm. Disease or trauma of these bodies gives you the pain in the upper abdomen. The intensity and severity of pain will depend on what is happening and where. The pain in the right hypochondrium can be with the inflammation of the liver (hepatitis). Infectious agents, who often attack the liver, it is viruses. Hence the so-called viral hepatitis. There are three main types: viral hepatitis A, b, C. People usually become ill with viral hepatitis And after the swallow contaminated waste food or water. Hepatitis b is particularly common among homosexuals, drug users and those who was with them in close contact. Hepatitis C is almost always transmitted through transfusion of contaminated blood, medical needles and products containing blood. Particularly common among drug addicts. Various chemical agents and medications can also damage the liver because of its toxicity. This is the so-called toxic hepatitis. The most dangerous of the kernel to the liver is alcohol. With regular abuse of alcohol develop alcoholic hepatitis. The liver may suffer and in heart failure, when the heart muscle bad pumping the blood, comes through the heart. Part of it will get stuck in the lungs and there is a lack of breathing, as part of the stagnates in the liver, stretching it and causes pain.

Pain in the upper right portion of the abdomen (right upper quadrant (or in the right hypohondrium)) may be associated with the gall bladder. It should be noted that the bile in the body plays an important role. Bile, which is formed in the liver that helps digest food. Excess bile is stored in the gall bladder. And if you eat a lot of fatty food, we need large amounts of bile to digest fats. Therefore, gall bladder injects its contents into the intestines. Infection, poor liver function or stones in the gall bladder is often responsible for the pain in the right upper part of the abdomen. In the stomach there is also another important body is the pancreas. The pancreas or pancreas) is a glandular organ, which is located deep in the abdomen, which secretes digestive enzymes, juices and insulin. The pancreas is pulled out from right to left. The "head" of the glands in the upper right quadrant, the "body" crosses the midline of the abdomen, and the "tail" is located in the upper-left quadrant. The most frequent cause of pancreatic pain is inflammation (pancreatitis), which is particularly prone alcoholics and people suffering from the diseases of the gall bladder. Attack of acute pancreatitis has a number of peculiarities. First, the attack is very painful, is accompanied by nausea, vomiting, profuse sweating. The pain gives the right in the back. Increases in the situation of lying, and easier patients getting sitting with tilting forward. Diagnosis usually requires the confirmation of the laboratory analysis to determine the content of some enzymes, allocated damaged gland. Sometimes the pain in the right upper quadrant causes renal pathology. Kidneys are located at the sides. One kidney on each side of your body, so that the kidneys disease usually causes pain in the side and back. If the right kidney is infected, it is formed abscess, abscess, or are there rocks, the resulting pain may be felt in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen, as well as in the back. If in the kidney was a small stone, and he came out of it, and is located in ureter, the pain finds waves, it is painful and often gives in the groin, and men and in the egg.

Pain in the lower right portion of the abdomen (lower right quadrant). In the lower right quadrant is located Appendix (a small piece of tissue, which departs from the large intestine), intestine, which can marvel at the various diseases, including cancer, as well as the ureter, a discharge urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder, the fallopian tubes in women. Any pain in the right lower abdomen should make them think you of appendicitis. This diagnosis should not be removed until such time as it is not proved that it is not so. If you can specify the location of the pain one finger, if it lasts more than 12 hours without weakening, if the pain is also located near the navel, then most likely you have appendicitis. In any case, if you suspect yourself have appendicitis, consult a doctor immediately. And if the diagnosis is confirmed, the doctor will offer you the operation. Otherwise, the Appendix can maturate and burst. And then even a trivial appendicitis can lead to death. Cause pain in the lower right quadrant may be infection of the intestine (ulcerative colitis, ileitis, Crohn's disease or diarrhea caused by such parasites like an amoeba or worm), herpes zoster and compression of the nerves, which depart from the spine and ending in this area. Kidney stone on his way down to the urinary bladder in ureter can also cause excruciating pain in this quadrant.

The women in this area there can be a pain for ectopic pregnancy. Ectopic pregnancy occurs when a fertilized egg remains in the fallopian tube instead of having to go down to the uterus. Pain in the abdomen can be observed in infections, received through sexual transmission (such as gonorrhoea, trichomoniasis, chlamydia). Ovarian cysts, especially when their breakup, and ovarian tumors may cause such chronic pain. The pain, which increases with the milf, suggests endometriosis.

Which doctor should I contact if there is a pain in the right part of the abdomen

• Gynaecologist
• Gastroenterologist
• Infectious disease physician,
• Surgeon
• The emergency doctor

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Do you feel hurts in the right part of the abdomen? You should be very careful approach to your health in general. People pay not enough attention to the symptoms of the disease and don't realize that these diseases can be critically dangerous. There are many diseases that in the beginning didn't manifest in our body, but in the end it turns out, unfortunately, it have already been treated too late. Every disease has its own specific features typical symptoms - called symptoms of the disease. Definition of symptoms is the first step in the diagnosis of diseases in general. You just need a few times a year to be screened by a doctor, not only to prevent a terrible disease, but also to maintain a healthy spirit in a body and the organism in general.

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