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Symptoms of disease - pain in the upper 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 (clogged, 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.

Which diseases there is pain in the upper abdomen

Pain in the upper abdomen is often observed in such widespread diseases of gastrointestinal tract, as gastritis, stomach cramps and disorders of the gall bladder. You cannot apply the massage with bleeding of the digestive system.

In everybody's life at least once a stomach ache. Sometimes the pain is accompanied by other symptoms such as: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea etc.

Pain in the abdomen sometimes can be caused by common overeating. In addition, some products, the abundance of fat, flatulence, lactose intolerance by the eating of dairy products, all this may cause pain, which, as a rule, will be temporary and will pass in a few hours.

There are also more serious diseases, which are expressed pain in the abdomen.

In the stomach are many vital organs. It is often difficult to define, what exactly hurts, because the pain travels. It hurts a little higher, a little below, then right, then left.

In addition, there is pain in the abdomen, as a sick body is beyond it. So, for example, is characterized by pain in the abdomen when pneumonia is the right lung.

Pain around the navel may be associated with the disorder of the bowel or inflammation of the appendix. The appendix can become inflamed the delay of feces. passing through the rectum. Without the proper treatment of the appendix may rupture and cause peritonitis. Peritonitis is a serious abdominal infection dangerous for life.

The pain just above the navel, as a rule, connected with the problems in the stomach. Among the perpetrators of this pain will be a gastritis, a stomach ulcer, high acidity of the stomach. Persistent pain in this place alert about the problems of the duodenum, pancreas and gall bladder.

Pain in upper left part of the abdomen says about the problems of the colon, stomach, and pancreas.

Pain in the upper right part of, especially, the strong points to the inflammation of the gall bladder. This pain may last until the central part of the abdomen , as well as given in the back. Other causes such pains are pancreatitis and disorders duodenal the colon.

Abdominal pain can also occur in diseases of the lungs and heart.

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

• Gastroenterologist
• Cardiologist
• Surgeon
• Resuscitator
• Infectious Disease Physician

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Do you feel abdominal hurts? 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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