What is abdominal pain?
Abdominal pain, often known as stomach pain, is a feeling of discomfort in the area between the chest and the pelvis. Most occurrences of stomach discomfort are minor and can be caused by a variety of things, including indigestion or muscle strain.
Stomachache, tummy ache, gut ache, and bellyache are all phrases used to represent abdominal pain.
Symptoms
- Fever and severe pain
- Stools that are bloody
- Nausea and vomiting regularly
- Loss of weight
- Yellowish-colored skin
- When you touch your abdomen, it feels really tender.
- Abdominal swelling.
Causes
- Serious:
- appendicitis,
- perforated stomach ulcer
- pancreatitis
- ruptured diverticulitis
- ovarian torsion
- volvulus
- ruptured aortic aneurysm
- lacerated spleen or liver
- ischemic colitis
- ischaemic myocardial conditions
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- gastroenteritis
- irritable bowel syndrome