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Symptoms of disease - pain in the navel

Pain in the navel may be a signal of a serious illness.
Pain in the abdomen always were and are for us one of the most unpleasant. When a stomach ache, do we certainly cannot do anything, even walking normally.
Often, the definition of the causes of pain in the navel is a very complicated. In certain situations it is impossible even to a consistent depth investigation of the causes of pain. Often for high-quality diagnostics and treatment requires a great experience of the attending physician, because sometimes the picture of the disease is unknown, obliterated.



Which diseases there is pain in the navel

Pain in the navel can be observed in several diseases, such as:

- Diseases of the small intestine (enteritis) bacterial, viral, parasitic etiology.

- Exacerbation of chronic enteritis. Chronic enteritis is a disease characterized by inflammatory and degenerative changes in the mucous membrane of the small intestine. Can be combined with the defeat of the large intestine (enterocolitis). The cause of this disease are transferred in the past intestinal infections, and giardiasis. The clinic is manifested unsharp, dull, aching spilled pain that occurs after eating or independently of it; a sense of completeness, severity, or expanding in the epigastric region and in the navel (these feelings are intensified after a meal and in the evening); decrease in appetite or normal appetite; swelling and the rumbling in my stomach. The skin is dry, there are brittle nails, bleeding gums, weakness, fatigue.

- Acute appendicitis. The most frequent acute diseases of abdominal cavity organs, requiring surgical intervention, is an acute appendicitis. The disease begins suddenly, with the pain in podlojecna area or in the abdomen, sometimes in the navel, which is gradually picking up. After a time, they are localized in the right part of the stomach, right iliac region (about the iliac wing on the right). A small rise in temperature, increased heart rate, dry tongue. When pressing on the stomach is determined by a sharp pain in the right part of the stomach, the right iliac region, which is amplified when you let go of his hands, muscle tension.

- Hernia in the navel, which is accompanied by severe pain in the abdomen, nausea, vomiting, a delay of stool and gas, the increase of the pulse. In the field of hernia at the same time with the pain is determined by the dense round or oblong shape, sharply painful, not  reduce in the abdominal cavity: the incarcerated hernia is different from reduce. It is urgently necessary to call the ambulance, which will bring the patient in a surgical hospital. It is inadmissible to engage in reduce hernia, as this may damage the disadvantaged rectum. Delay with the call of "first aid" is fraught with dangers and can lead to necrosis (death) of a strangulated intestine.

- Cancer of the small intestine. The most common initial symptoms are despepsiceskie disorders: nausea, vomiting, bloating, spasticskie pain in the intestines, pain in the navel. In the future there is a decrease of body weight, which may be due either to reduced power, and with the rapid progression of the tumor process.

- Diverticulitis of the small intestine. Diverticulitis called acquired sack protrusion of the mucous membrane in the muscular layer of the colon, the size from 3 mm up to more than 3 cm in diameter, as a rule, multiple, often after the age of 40. Very rare giant diverticula in diameter up to 15 cm. Diverticula found in any place of the small intestine. The clinic includes pain in the navel, local tenderness on palpation in the lower left part of the abdomen and a rise in temperature.

- Abdominal migraine. Abdominal form of migraine is most common in school children and adolescents. The pain is intense, may be diffuse or localized in the navel, is accompanied by nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, paling and the cooling of the extremities. The duration of the pain varies from half an hour to several hours or even several days. Typical of the simultaneous emergence of pain in the stomach and headache or their rotation.
It is important to consider the relationship of abdominal pain with headache migraine nature, characteristic for migraine symptoms: a young age, cases of migraines in the family, the therapeutic effect antimigraine drugs, increase of speed of a linear flow of blood in the abdominal aorta with Doppler during the paroxysm.

- Inversions the small intestine (strangulation intestinal obstruction). Inversions the small intestine begin acute. The disease runs with heavy General and local clinical symptoms, characteristic for the acute high strangulation bowel obstruction. The leading symptom is sudden pain. Is characterized by a constant sharp pain in the pit of my stomach and in pre-vertebral area. Pain (both permanent and cramping) are localized in the right part of the stomach and in the navel. Vomiting is in the beginning of disease, but is rarely fecaloid the Delay of the chair and gas is available at the majority of patients.
In the first hours of the disease on the background of constant pain from time to time arise cramping pain, the intensity of which is growing simultaneously with peristalsis, reaching nature of the intolerable. Patients are often cry out in pain, they become anxious, take a forced situation with those given to the stomach feet. Vomiting from the very beginning multiple and does not bring relief.

- Violations of the mesenteric circulation and aneurysms of the abdominal aorta.



Which doctor should I contact if there is a pain in the navel

  • Gastroenterologist
  • Oncologist


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