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Symptoms of disease - pain in the gut

Pain in the gut is the most common complaint in diseases of the intestines. It differs from the pain in diseases of the stomach lack of connection with the adoption of food (the exception is the inflammatory process in the transverse colon, in which abdominal pain occur after eating: pain in the gut associated with reflex contractions of the intestine with the flow of food into the stomach).
Pain usually intensifies before the act of defecation, which brings relief. Disease of some divisions of the intestine accompanied by the appearance of pain during defecation.

Pain in the gut may be hurting and cramping (intestinal kolica). Сramps pain characterized by short repeated bouts. Aching pain are stable character and there is a growing at a voltage of cough. Pain are typical for inflammatory bowel disease.

As a rule, pain during bowel diseases are spastic nature, i.e. arise due to spasm of (a sharp reduction of the smooth muscle of the bowel). This phenomenon is called intestinal colic and occurs when enteritis, colitis, various poisonings, worm infestations. Patients at the time of the intestinal colic feel anxiety. Trying to alleviate their condition, they wrap their arms around the stomach.

Pain in the gut may arise as a result of stretching intestinal gases with flatulence, bowel obstruction (in tumors, volvulus guts, nodulus). Such pain, unlike spastic, more stable and have the aching in nature.

Often as a result of intestinal obstruction to pain due to stretch added strong cramping the pain associated with increased intestinal peristalsis above the obstacles.

With the development of adhesive process between the loops of bowel pains have the pull character, amplified when lifting, depend on the position of the body, are provoked by enema.



Which diseases there is pain in the gut

Localization of pain during bowel diseases depends on what the Department of bowel struck by:

- So, in diseases of the small intestine pain is felt in the umbilical region, in acute appendicitis - in the right part of the stomach, first appearing in the stomach and after a few hours and working down.

- When appendicular colic pain may be in the right leg.

- Pain in the right iliac region (the region of the wing of the iliac crest to the right) arise in appendicitis, and cancer of the colon, an inflammation of the bowel (typhlitis).

- In patients with dysentery, obstruction of the intestines, an inflammation of the bowel, ulcerative colitis, cancer of sigmoid and descending colon pain is marked in the left iliac region.

- Acute lesion of the left-wing of the departments of the large intestine (dysentery) pain radiating in the sacral region.

- When lesions of the rectum (hemorrhoids, cracked rear passage, cancer, proctitis - inflammation of the rectum) pain localized in the pussy, growing stronger by the act of defecation, accompanied by a painful false urge to defecate (tenesmus).

- The emergence of pain before defecation associated with the disease of the colon, bowel, during defecation - with hemorrhoids, cracked rear passage, cancer.

- Pain in the region of the navel are observed in the inflammation of the small intestine (enteritis), inflammation and cancer of the colon.

- When bowel obstruction cramps pain combined with constant pain. They are characterized by a specific localization (the navel or the large intestine) and the gain in connection with the intestinal peristalsis.

- Pain in the defeat of the bowel may enroll in the chest and be taken for the attacks of angina.



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

  • Gastroenterologist
  • Proctologist
  • Oncologist


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