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Allergic intestinal lesions: symptoms
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Patients experience acute cramping, less often aching blunt pain throughout the abdomen, accompanied by rumbling, swelling and transfusion, as well as imperative urges for defecation. There is a frequent loose stool, often with an admixture of undigested food or mucus, less often of blood. Sometimes it is possible to isolate mucous membranes (membranous colitis, mucocutaneous colic). When coprological examination, signs of acceleration of the motor function of the intestines, digestion disorders, intestinal hypersecretion, sometimes eosinophilia and Charcot-Leiden crystals are revealed.
In some cases, the clinical picture resembles acute appendicitis, intestinal obstruction, thrombosis of mesenteric vessels. Colicky pain in the abdomen and tenderness in palpation, fever, vomiting, stool retention or, conversely, diarrhea, as well as tachycardia, a drop in blood pressure, and leukocytosis in the blood can allow an abdominal catastrophe. However, the rapid effect of taking antiallergic drugs, the presence of common allergic symptoms (urticaria, Quincke's edema, bronchospasm, migraine, etc.) and a successful outcome in most cases help to make the correct diagnosis. Alimentary allergic reaction can be repeated in the same patient when taking an intolerable product.
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