What diseases can cause stomachache? How to distinguish stomach diseases from other digestive tract diseases? Make it clear at once

With the rapid development of society, great changes have taken place in people's eating habits and lifestyles. Few young people can cook or are willing to cook now. On the one hand, the work pressure is too great, and young people have little time to cook. On the other hand, eating out and ordering takeout is a very convenient way to solve the problem of food and clothing.

However, according to outpatient statistics, there are more and more sub-healthy people, especially the number of people suffering from digestive system diseases has been rising year after year. Stomach pain is a common problem, and many people take it seriously, thinking that the pain will disappear after taking some medicine to strengthen the stomach and promote digestion. As we all know, if gastrointestinal diseases are not treated for a long time, they are likely to induce serious diseases, and it is often reported that patients with gastrointestinal tumors get sick at a young age.

Therefore, as a doctor of gastroenterology, I think it is very necessary to teach you some common digestive tract diseases and how to distinguish them from other systemic diseases. Let's have a look.

What diseases can cause stomachache?

First, we often hear that chronic gastritis, superficial gastritis, atrophic gastritis and other inflammatory diseases may cause stomach pain, but this kind of pain is often mild and generally irregular, and it can be induced when eating irregular food or eating too much spicy and irritating food.

Second, ulcerative diseases, whether gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer, may cause our stomachache. Ulcerative pain has its own characteristics, that is, gastric ulcer will show pain after eating; Duodenal ulcers are mostly abdominal pain and night pain.

Third, there are benign and malignant tumors in the stomach, but whether they are benign or malignant, they may also cause our stomachache. If there is abdominal pain accompanied by melena, it will arouse our great attention, so we must see a doctor in time and be alert to the possibility of malignant tumor.

Fourth, epigastric pain caused by other systemic diseases is easily confused with stomach pain, mainly including heart disease, liver disease, gallbladder disease and pancreatic disease. For example, some patients with acute inferior myocardial infarction will cause upper abdominal pain.

Fifth, acute appendicitis, the initial symptoms of acute appendicitis, will also be manifested as upper abdominal pain.

How to distinguish stomach diseases from intestinal diseases?

In the process of outpatient service, patients often say that he has a stomachache, and it is only after examination that it is found to be stomach trouble. Abdominal pain is clinically divided into upper abdominal pain and lower abdominal pain. Is the so-called stomachache the pain of intestinal diseases? Teach you several identification methods.

1. Different parts of pain

Our stomach grows under the xiphoid process, that is, under the seam of our sternum. If the pain is located in this part or above the navel level, it is likely to be a stomachache; What needs to be pointed out here is that gallbladder pain, pancreatic pain, and even heartburn pain may also be manifested under the xiphoid process. I will tell you about it separately when I have time.

If the pain is caused by intestinal diseases, it is mostly below the navel, and it is divided into different parts according to the different positions of the small intestine and the large intestine. If it is pain around the navel, it is mostly a disease of the small intestine; If it is bilateral abdominal pain, it may be a disease of the large intestine.

2. Different accompanying symptoms

Stomach pain is mostly dull pain or colic, often accompanied by epigastric discomfort such as pain after eating or empty abdominal pain, belching, acid reflux and heartburn. The so-called colic is a spasmodic pain like something is writhing. Intestinal pain is often accompanied by changes in defecation characteristics such as constipation and diarrhea.

Generally speaking, if you have no history of digestive system in the past, when you have upper abdominal pain, especially when the symptoms are serious and can't be alleviated, you must go to the hospital in time to avoid missed diagnosis and misdiagnosis.